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How Can NASA Help You Succeed?
“One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” As Neil Armstrong stepped out onto the moon’s surface, he spoke the now famous words, “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Like that historic first walk on the landscape of the moon, one small step at a time is the basic unit needed to make your goals attainable. Space Walk for Success NASA needed years of preparation, education, knowledge, commitment and focus before Neil Armstrong was even sent into space. As an astronaut, Neil Armstrong, had to spend years on education; practice; knowledge, commitment and focus. … Continue reading
4 ~ A path to success is unique
Another in the countdown from Top 10 Life Lessons of 2010 4 ~ A path to success is as unique as the person walking the path… It would be so convenient if there was just one path to success. Anyone who decided they wanted to succeed, would just buy a map and get on this road. Then you would walk in this happy grand procession along with others and reach the Emerald City called Success. Except… What you call success and what I call success are different. But it is not limited to you and me, almost everyone in the world … Continue reading
What is Your “Why?” and Accomplishing Your Goals
Recently I changed business, yet I did not define my why. If you do not define your why it becomes hard to settle your business and help grow it. Defining my reason why was necessary as part of my new business. Your “why” is not what you think. It may seem obvious to you. In some cases you make think you answer is obvious to others as well. You may wonder then why people do not understand or sympathize with your reason “why.” Is that really your “why?” The problem with most obvious answer is that it is not always … Continue reading
Keep Learning and Keep Living
Maybe you think because school was long ago, you do not need to learn or you are “too old” to learn anything new. Success planning is not a single incident. Success requires making adjustments to your plans. With these things in mind, it should come as no surprise that life long learning is an important part of success planning. How does life long learning help? You are exercising your mind, helping your memory, even helping your future. The mind is like a muscle, if you stop using it then you start losing mental abilities. This means coming up with new … Continue reading
The 5 List Helps You Reach Goals
Long to do lists make success hard. You try to accomplish the things on your list and when you do not complete them you do not feel successful. It also makes reaching your goals very difficult. 5 Item List Rather than write down everything that needs to be done. Write just the 5 things that if you get those done, you will feel like you completed your day and accomplished something. You can always add more things later or be happy that you accomplished great things that day. Some of us have five chores to do before morning coffee. While … Continue reading
Why Goals Change, and My Goals Updated
In the last blog challenge, a song and video became very popular. They sang of abuse, while the singers said they were speaking against abuse, the song and video almost romanticize it. In this instant I realize I was doing WordPress because everyone recommended me doing it. And I believed it was a means to get to my published career. Yet, each new product brought less sales than the one before. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. ~ Rita Mae Brown So with that in mind I stepped away from selling WordPress … Continue reading
The Key to Sharing Goals
The idea of sharing your goals with others is that you will do more to achieve them, or they will help motivate you. Studies as far back as 1920s have proven this actually does not work. Rather than take action, you are less likely to do so. What is wrong with sharing goals? By feeling like you are closer, you are tricking the mind that you are closer without taking action. This has been proven in several studies, including one by Peter Gollwitzer. He had 163 subjects, all made a goal. Half the group announced their goals to the public, … Continue reading
Why I Shared Goals
The last few days have covered my goals. The reason I have shared them is that I have certain steps I must reach weekly to meet these goals. Partly because these goals need help to achieve them and I wanted to show an example of steps you can tell friends you need. ie. I need an average 75 women per week to join 50 Women Project or I need 7 articles per week to publish on other sites. These are steps that I require me pushing 50 Women and my articles. I succeeded on the articles for this week. The … Continue reading
My Goal Means Articles for You
A post to help those who are in the Ultimate Blog Challenge. In addition you help me reach my goal of over 300 articles published elsewhere before the end of the year. To reach my goal, I need 7 articles per week published elsewhere per week, since twice that many are added each week, there’s plenty of new articles. There are plenty of articles in several categories which can get you several articles. You can use them now or use the schedule function for later dates. (Open the publish box by clicking the right side of it, right above … Continue reading
Goals for the Last 12 Weeks
While we are 13 days into October, anytime is a good time to make goals and announce them publicly. On Friday there will be 12 weeks left before the end of the year. So what are your goals for the last 12 weeks of the year? What can you do to make 2010 the best year ever, or at least make it end on a better note? ♪ Some of you may see that I am writing on two other blogs during this challenge. 365 Online Tips is currently discussing procrastination, Rockstar Guide Books which actually has no more posts … Continue reading
