How to Achieve Your Goals

10 Tips for Better Brainstorming*

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ― Henry Ford When done properly, brainstorming sessions can be an enormously effective way to develop brilliant new ideas.When done improperly, they’re tedious and exasperating time wasters. So let’s brainstorm about brainstorming. 1. Set a clear goal for what you are brainstorming: marketing…

Do You Feel Supported?

Surrounding yourself with people who support your goals is a great way to make accomplishing them easier. Beyond that, it just makes life itself easier and happier! You might not always be able to extricate yourself from an unsupportive relationship, but being aware of who is helpful and who isn’t will help you direct your…

How to Dodge the Zealous*

(*or “How to Handle It When Your Goals with Heart Conflict with Theirs”!) I’m probably on shaky ground when I start an article by apologizing, but here it is: I apologize. I don’t mean to offend anyone who IS zealous with my suggestions below. You’re doing what you feel as though you’re called to do,…

Overwhelmed? Three Key Steps To Get Your Life Back*

Feeling overwhelmed is the flip side being in-the-zone. If you work for twelve hours and feel purposeful and as though you’ve accomplished something meaningful, you’re in the zone. If you work for twelve hours and feel like you’ve wasted your day and wonder where the time went, you’re overwhelmed. Not sure if you’re overwhelmed or…