Category: Goal Setting
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Q2 Progress With 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: How are you progressing with your 2016…
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Weekend Poll: Q2 Progress Check On Your 2016 Goals
Did you set a goal or two you want to achieve in 2016? You may have made resolutions in a frenzy of year-end inspiration last December. Or, perhaps you identified goals…
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Weekend Poll Results: Packing for Conferences
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: Packing for Conferences: Do You Travel Light,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Q1 Progress With 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: How are you progressing with your 2016…
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Weekend Poll: Q1 Progress Check On Your 2016 Goals
Did you set a goal or two you want to achieve in 2016? You may have made resolutions in a frenzy of year-end inspiration, or identified goals following a performance review…
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Weekend Poll Results: Competing for Professional Recognition
Would you like the opportunity to compete for awards that reflect recognition of your professional skills and contributions? It turns out that, while 78% of respondents to my most recent…
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Weekend Poll: Awards, Anyone?
Living in Vancouver, it’s not unusual to walk or drive past a movie or television set. If you don’t know someone who works in the industry, you likely know someone…
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Collaborating for an Exceptional New Year: IYOTSA 2014
Are things winding down in your office as 2013 draws to a close, or is that concept one of which you might only dream for a few more days? Whatever…
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Circumstances
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. – Oliver Goldsmith
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Goals
When it becomes obvious that the goal can not be accomplished, do not adjust the goal. Adjust the action steps. – Confucius
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Just Do It
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
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Specificity
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin
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Expectations
Set your spirits high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future, but now. Realise that nothing is too good. – Eileen Caddy…
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Live and Learn
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
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Study
Study and emulate the best, without ever losing sight of yourself. – Shelagh Donnelly
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Success
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
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Mistakes
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. – Phyllis Bottome
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Taking Control Of Your Career: Moving Past Your Plateau
Does it seem you’re facing an uphill battle? In Taking Control of Your Career, we considered how assistants can reach career plateaus – and indicators that you may have reached…