If you’re a goal-oriented person, having someone to keep you accountable for your personal and professional goals may seem trivial. Why would you do that if you are able to keep yourself accountable for your own goals? However, the best way to keep yourself on track with goals and actually make the journey through your goals more meaningful is to have some partners in crime to keep you on track no matter how focused and motivated you are. That’s why the Power of 3 Worksheet points to establishing three accountability partners to help you live your mission. An example may
I have a good friend who cannot stand fake people. Her philosophy is, be anything you want to be, just be real. She has all types of friends, with all different background and interests, but she can spot a fake from a mile away. And once you are insincere with her, she writes you off. She has no need for you. Want to make sure she writes you off? Act like you are invincible, with no flaws, which to her is really the largest form of insincerity. Although her philosophy could be a lesson in leadership on giving people a
A few weeks ago, I discussed the need to set a personal mission and then question yourself when it comes to living out that mission. The Power of 3 Worksheet can help you with this. Another component to this worksheet and living out your mission is to set goals for yourself. Here are some tips for setting goals: Set just three goals related to your mission. Any less is not enough, get too many more and nothing is really a priority. 32- Square the power of your three goals by writing them goals down. Research shows that those who write their
On Sunday morning about 7 AM, I was in the middle of a run. It was a quiet, beautiful fall morning until I looped back around and through the sports and water park complex near my house. Cars started driving by and turning into the parking lot by the tennis center. I could hear an abundance of tennis balls popping off rackets as ,what seemed to be, many people warming up. I’ve run by on other Sunday mornings about this time to see what couldn’t be older than five and six year olds warming up for soccer matches. The mini
My husband has suddenly become glued to watching The Voice on NBC. I have no idea why. He can’t carry a tune and he is, in general, not a music buff. For some reason, though, he finds this show extremely entertaining. Different from it’s rival show American Idol, The Voice features singers who all have some type of musical talent. They aren’t any folks off the street trying to get camera attention. Because he was watching it (yes, even over Monday Night Football) on Monday, I sat down to tune in for a minute. On this episode, a 17 year