Archive for September, 2014

September 7 – Measure and Celebrate

Sunday, September 7th, 2014

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September 7 – Measure and celebrate small gains towards achieving your goals. Find one or two key measurements that indicate how you are proceeding. Create a visual tracking board to record your progress.

September 6 – Your Support Team

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

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September 6 – Create your own support team in the pursuit of your goal. These are people who inspire you, can advise you, hold you accountable to doing what you say you’re going to do, and give you a much needed pep talk when the going gets rough. Keep these people close.

September 5 – Can You Do It and Is It Worth It?

Friday, September 5th, 2014

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September 5 – When contemplating a goal, check in with yourself. Can you do it? Is it worth it? To stay the course and achieve your goal, you have to continually answer “yes” to both those questions.

September 4 – Build Your Working Memory

Thursday, September 4th, 2014

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September 4 – A similar attribute shared by child prodigies is a highly developed working memory. This means they can more rapidly build off what they have already learned. Mind mapping is a skill you can learn that helps you develop your working memory.

September 3 – Ten Thousand Hours

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

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September 3 – What small steps can you practice every day that will help you develop the capabilities to achieve your goal? It takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve top performance in any field.

September 2 – Who Else Has Achieved Your Goal?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

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September 2 – Seek out people who have already achieved a goal similar to yours. Identify the top three vital behaviors that helped them achieve their goal.

September 1 – Overcoming Setbacks

Monday, September 1st, 2014

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September 1 – Recognize in any goal you pursue, you will experience setbacks. You had some capability to even conceive your goal in the first place – this same capability helps you develop the internal resiliency to overcome these setbacks.