Posts from — July 2010

Recently, I made one of my rare and infrequent trips to a retail store. It’s not that I don’t like to buy things. I simply do not enjoy the process of shopping, so I leave it to others.

While at the store, I took the opportunity to observe people who had selected the items they wished to purchase and were waiting to pay for their items in the checkout line. Some people simply picked the nearest line, stood in the back, and waited.  Click to read the full post...

An Internet search of the term “goal setting” yields nearly 9 million results. If you’re a new to the world of goal setting – or even if you’re a veteran – 9 million results can feel daunting.

As you begin to delve into the results, it feels even more overwhelming: you’ll read about creating a vision. You’ll discover there are different types of goals: short-term and long-term goals, performance, result and process goals, something called SMART goals, business goals, personal goals, and more. You’ll notice there are tips and techniques and “secrets” to goal setting. There is online software for goal planning. There are books about goal setting.  Click to read the full post...