Goals Give Life Direction
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (more…)
Your Mission: Designing a Purposeful Life
When individuals set goals that are especially meaningful to them, they experience a sense of mission. They feel enthusiasm for the tasks that lie ahead and for what they intend to accomplish. At every stage of life, having a mission gives them a reason to get up in the morning, a reason to bounce back from setbacks, and a reason to explore their potential. (more…)
Goals are Key to Designing Your “Rich Life”
Financial Life Planning is a holistic process that will help you to clarify your values and guide you in defining and designing your unique version of the “rich life.” (more…)
Setting Goals That “Make Your Eyes Shine”
As I mentioned in a recent post, Are SMART Goals Wise? certain types of goal setting may actually be limiting rather than liberating. The principle of SMART goal setting is that your goals must be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Tangible. I believe that while these types of goals can be helpful in some situations, they can pull us back into the frame of measurement and competitiveness, shutting down creativity and vision. (more…)
Identify Your Heirarchy of Life Values
In The Thinker’s Way, author John Chaffee describes the word “value” as “the general term we use to characterize anything that possesses intrinsic worth, that we prize, esteem, and regard highly based on clearly defined standards.” (more…)
Does Goal-Setting Give You Stress?
This piece on goal-setting (reprinted with permission from Money Quotient) is one that I share with my clients during the initial stages of our Financial Life Planning ® goal-setting process. The article offers “7 Tips” for setting effective goals – insights that can help you laser-focus on the right goals for you.
Goals
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin Roosevelt
