Tag Archive: goal setting

Planning to Stay Home

A career plan seems as necessary as planning for a vacation. Yet we will spend hours pouring over the latter and some fleeting moments thinking about our career. Why is that? Is it because we have so much more control…

Pluck Some Low Hanging Fruit

We have become a spoilt and impatient lot that demands an immediate google answer and can’t bother to email because messaging is so much faster. The technology has made us slaves to instant gratification and our need for immediacy is…

Write Your Resolutions on Your Forehead!

I have just the thing you need to make an awesome transition into 2012. Get on the Facebook page and share your top three resolutions. I challenge you to go public and also build an instant support group around your resolutions. If you failed to achieve them last year, how are you going succeed this year?

Don’t Let your Values be a Drag

What is that feeling of unease as you are about to say yes to yet another volunteer opportunity? Is that tension in your jaw as you are about to embark on a big project that is going to take…

Only Read This if you want to Achieve Something

I’m a total sucker for the holidays. The whole thing has me giddy with excitement starting around Halloween and by January, I’m sapped. So, while the euphoria lasts, let me bring you to my dizzy heights. Families come with traditions. There…

Something Has to Give

A friend (I’ll call her Jane for the sake of this article) once made a comment that she had no idea how Indra Nooi, the CEO of Pepsi, got so much done in a day. Jane was talking about her day as…

10 Ways to Improve Your Focus

I love distractions. I look forward to them and they are a necessary part of my day. When one looks at my day there is plenty of corroborating evidence to support that. When I woke up early this morning, I had two…

How is a Life Coach like a Personal Trainer?

A transition coach is not so different from a personal trainer.

How Do you Motivate Yourself?

I was asked by a friend the other morning, how I deal with feelings of every day is the same and it really doesn’t matter if I get some things taken care of or not. If when you wake up…

Goal Setting for Smart People

Goal setting for smart people.