Another reason for goal setting is: it helps you to focus Yesterday I took a nice photo of lions. I focused on them - I did not focus on the grass and not on the trees. I could have focused on so many other things, but I chose to focus on the lions. I tell …
Why is goal setting important? (Part I)
Did you think about your goals for next week, next month, next year? Maybe you thought about it, maybe not. There are some reasons why setting goals is important and there are also reasons why many people don’t set goals. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running …
Do you set goals?
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” - Bill Copeland Do you know people who have a passive approach towards life? They live their lifes just “as it comes”. They don’t set any goals for their life. Their …
Why don’t people pursue their dreams?
What is YOUR fear? Why don’t you pursue your dream? ??? Question for you today: If you had a million dollars – what would you do? Which dream would you fulfill??? I think money is a big factor why some people don’t pursue their dream. People want security. My experience: If my first goal in …
How to discover your dream
Did you think already of some childhood memories, of some childhood dreams? Did your dream or some of your dreams come true already? If yes, why? If no, why not? What could block your dreams? For example fear, living someone elses dream, chasing money or prestige, laziness, habitualness, excuses (no time, too old, no money, …
My life
In my last post I wrote a bit about the dreams I had when I was a child. In actual fact: when I think of it - many of my dreams came true. But why did they come true? It didn’t happen “automatically”. I really had to work hard for it and I also …
Passion
Passion What’s your passion? What do you love doing? What are you good at? Think back for a minute when you were a child. What dreams did you have? What desires did you have, what wishes? Did you want to be a teacher, a doctor, an artist, a nurse, a craftsman, a fireman, a ………..? …
Personality
Do you know your distinct personality type - what motivates you and why you view and interact with the world the way you do? There are different personality type test out there - also good ones in the internet that could help you to understand yourself better. I took a few different ones and it …
Strength (Part II)
Strength (Part II) When you are working within your strengths you are most likely experiencing "flow". What is "flow"? "Csíkszentmihályi describes his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow— a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation. It is a state in which …
Strength (Part I)
What is a "strength"? It`s a "capacity for feeling, thinking, and behaving in a way that allows optimal functioning in the pursuit of valued outcomes" (Lopes and Snyder, 2007). This means, that strengths can include aspects of personality, character, talent, relational tendency, and academic skills. But strengths are more than just capacities. Marcus Buckingham (2007) …
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