Category Archives: General Articles

5 Simple Basics of Goal Setting

I’m often asked how to get started setting goals. Does an achievable goal begin with a vague idea or does a goal have to be detailed and specific? My answer: It should be both. A motivating and achievable goal is taking a dream and giving it the “legs” to become reality.
Here are my five basics [...]

MasterMind With Sharon Michaels

I have a new VIP MasterMind Group forming June, 2010 – come join me!
Take a listen and look. You’ll want to join other success-oriented and like-minded women who have decided to take themselves and their business to the next success level. http://www.goingforsuccess.com
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Is Change Necessary For Success?

I’m often asked if change is necessary to achieve goals – here’s a short story about change told in five simple paragraphs. What do you think, is change necessary for success?
Chapter 1.
I walk down a street and there’s a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It’s my [...]

Are You Setting Negative Goals?

Question: Why do I keep achieving negative goals? Is there such a thing as a negative goal?
Answer: Setting negative goals – that sounds counterproductive. Who would want to intentionally make something negative, hurtful or harmful a reality? But, that’s exactly what many of us do. A negative goal focuses energy on what we don’t want to achieve. 
Answering [...]

Can’t Get Around To Setting Goals

Question:  Why do I seem to do everything else except set my goals? I know they are important but I can’t seem to get around to working on them.
Answer:  The key words in your question are “get around to working on them.”
If you don’t believe in the importance of setting goals, they won’t be important [...]

Goals – Networking, Accountability, Masterminding

Listen as I share tips, success strategies and how tos for creating goal-oriented networking, accountability and mastermind groups. There is power, energy and synergy when like-minded women come together to make their goals reality. Research has proven you’ll achieve more when you surround yourself with goal-oriented supportive people.
It’s all about Women Enjoying Success!
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Success – One Step At A Time

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Planning for success can be a great motivator. Just the thought of buying the new car, building your dream house, going on a well deserved vacation or sending the children to private school can [...]

Do To-Do Lists Really Work?

Question: I make out my daily to-do lists but they don’t seem to be taking me any closer to achieving my goals. Do to-do lists really work? 
Answer: Personally, I don’t know where I’d be without my to-do lists! My lists help me focus on those moneymaking and/or goal achieving tasks that should be accomplished during my workday. 
Here [...]

Expect Success to Achieve Your Goals

Guest Author – Caterina Rando, MA, MCC 
To accomplish your goals attitude is key. Do not rob yourself of the learning and fulfillment that lies on the path along the way to your goals—enjoy every call you place, every trip you take, every accomplishment you make. Revel in the process of being a success—today do not [...]

I Never Acheive My Goals

Yesterday I had a coaching client say, “I never seem to achieve my goals. Am I hopeless?”
Here is my thought: No one is hopeless – misguided maybe but not hopeless. 
Achieving goals involves a combination of emotional preparation and physical activity. The mindset of success is just as important as the physical activity of working toward [...]