Goal setting works. But how do you go about deciding what your goals will be? The late Stephen Covey, emphasizes in at least two of his bestsellers (First Things First and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) the concept of time management and therefore goal setting based on importance of well, what’s important. The method for setting your goals (or big rocks as he terms them) is simple. Ask yourself two questions: What is the one thing that if I STARTED doing it, would make a tremendous positive difference in my life? What is the one thing that if I
It’s that time of year. New Year’s resolutions abound still on this 10th day of the New Year. We’re sticking to them now. Will we by month end? New Years’ resolutions are quite simply, goals. They can be set at any time of the year, and there are as many methods for setting and pursuing them as there are failed attempts at reaching them. But goal setting is a method that works. Research shows it does if it is handled within certain contexts and parameters. For the sake of full disclosure, I’m all about goal setting as a performance management method. I
At Horizon Point, we’ve been in the habit of providing end of the year book recommendations and reviews. You can check some previous ones out here: The Best Books of 2015 10 Books Leaders Need to Be Reading The Best Book to Give Every Person on Your Christmas Gift List Book Review 2013 We like books so much, we even provide book favorites off schedule like this Top 10 List of Leadership Books. But this year one book was so good that our 2016 recommendation is simply one: When Breath Becomes Air For us, a reoccurring theme seemed to emerge in
Through involvement in a community group, I had the opportunity (or drudgery, depends on how you look at it, I guess) to sit through six companies presenting their “solution” to a need. After they were all done, it was obvious which company was the best. And everyone, meaning about ten people, who had heard the presentations, agreed. When was the last time you had ten people agree on something easily? Yeah, that’s what I thought; hard to think of a time when you have, right? With this being said, the obvious winner knew what they were doing. But it wasn’t
“The moment you partner with somebody, you tap into something you never had access to before. You gain their knowledge, experience, influence, and potential. When you are already achieving at a highly efficient level, you don’t gain a great increase by getting significantly better yourself. You gain it by partnering or connecting with other good people who bring something different to the table. And that makes you better.” John Maxwell, Intentional Living John Maxwell points to a great truth in this quote. We can only make ourselves exponentially better through partnerships with others. As we round out a focus on social capital,