Even SMART Goals Need Smart Action Steps to Succeed
Goals are fundamental to turning a business dream into business success, and SMART goals are the standard in business planning. Most of my clients have heard of SMART goals, and I suspect you have too. But just as a refresher, let me remind you that SMART goals are: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Tangible Even SMART goals can fail you unless they’re accompanied by smart action strategies, and that’s what I want to talk about today: Smart Action Steps to Achieving Goals. Put Your Business Goals on Your Calendar The easiest and one of the most effective action steps you can take is to put your goal on your calendar. In other words: Give yourself a deadline. When should this goal be attained? Until you move action steps and your goals onto your calendar, you have great ideas but no real means of achieving them. Make Time to Succeed Set aside the time to reach your goal. Too often, we ‘add’ goals to our business days, somehow hoping our days will expand to meet them. (Wishful thinking!) As long as goals have no time allotted to them, we have no plan to achieve them. How to Plan Your Steps and Checkpoints For most business goals – whether it’s sales, productivity, or other business-related goals – you’ll increase your chance of success exponentially if you have prioritized action steps and checkpoints to keep you on track. So, block out the time for the action steps you need to take to reach your goal. Creating successful action steps: Think through the steps you need to take to reach your goals; make them specific. Prioritize your action steps and set target dates. Identify checkpoints along the way to your ultimate goal. Move your action steps and checkpoints onto your calendar, allowing sufficient time for…
Business Motivation – March 31, 2010
If You Want It, You Can Have It If you’re willing to pay the price, any of your circumstances will change. If you want something badly enough, you’re sure to get it. The key to success is desire. Obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain, circumstances or other challenges can be there. But if you want to do something bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done. Your desire will in time externalize itself into concrete fact. Your reality will form around your commitment to succeed. You only have to love a thing greatly to get it. Desire is the fire of life. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
March 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Staff Development
The March issue includes the following featured article titled: “Gain Control with the Power of Silence” – Silence doesn’t mean communication is dead; it may have simply lost its direction. Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – March 29, 2010
Success Is A Determined Action Away Foolish people with all their other thoughts, have this one too: They are always getting ready to live, but never living. Your success will start when you begin to pursue it. To reach your goal or to attain success, you don’t need to know all of the answers in advance. You just need to have a clear idea of what your goal is. Don’t procrastinate when faced with difficult problems. Break your problems into parts, and handle one part at a time. Develop tendencies toward taking action. You can make something happen right now. Divide your big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Everyone who ever got where they are had to begin where they were. Your big opportunity is where you are right now. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Take it. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
March 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Personal Leadership
The March issue includes the following featured article titled: “Discover Your Destiny with Personal Vision” – Defining a vision for your life means defining who you are and what you desire to do with your life. Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation- March 26, 2010
You Won’t Get Anywhere Without A Goal A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder. The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention. Your mind will reach toward achievement only when it has a goal. There is no achievement without goals. Establish a goal worth working for. Your goal will keep you going in tough times. Always have something ahead of you. Continuously visualize your next step. Keep moving after you achieve your goal and set another. Momentum is maintained by always having something to look forward to. Constantly give yourself something to work for. Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do. You can plant your dream. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
March 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Supervisory Management
The March issue includes the following featured article titled: “Do You Possess the Discipline to Lead?” – Disciplined leaders use a structured system of rules to govern the directing of activities. Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
March 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Organizational Leadership
The March issue includes the following featured article titled: “Good Leaders Plan for the Unexpected” – The failure to plan for the unexpected is one the biggest mistakes companies make when working on their strategic plans. Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation- March 24, 2010
There Is Always A Good Side Everything depends on the way you look at things. View every problem you encounter as an opportunity. There is always a good side to every situation. The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune. The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole. You can develop success from every failure. Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to success. No other elements can do so much for you if you’re willing to study them and make them work for you. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
March 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article In – Growth
The March issue includes the following featured article titled: “The Meaning of Success” –The true meaning of success depends on the process of progressive realization. Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
