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These articles about goals and goal setting have been written by Dale and are published on various article sites on the Internet. Keep checking back - there will be more added all the time!

• Do You Want Your Goal or Do You Insist on Having It? - Friedrich Nietzsche said "Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." Which one are you? Are you focused on working your plan or achieving your goal? There is a difference, and that's what Nietzsche was talking about! [Read More]
• Make Changes to Achieve Your Goal - Are you making the progress you want as you pursue your goals? Do you know why? Have you been doing the activities over and over again, activities that are supposed to work or that used to work but without making any real progress? Maybe something needs to change! [Read More]
• Does Life Get in the Way of Goals? Here's the Answer! - Let's face it, we can't control everything that happens in our life. We develop our goals and action plans, we work hard at them, we do our best...but sometime we find ourselves losing our focus. What can we do about it? [Read More]
• Three Steps to Big Goals - How do you eat an elephant? And, you're asking me "Why would I want to eat an elephant?" Maybe if I ask it another way: How do you eat a 1,000 pound marshmallow? Is that a little more palatable? Either way, the answer is the same: One bite at a time! Now, I doubt that you want to eat either an elephant or a 1,000 pound marshmallow. But, do you have a big goal? Does it seem overwhelming but yet something you really want to accomplish? Is the goal so big that you just can't figure out how to "just do it"? [Read More]
• What Do You Refuse to do to Achieve Your Goal? - Have you identified your goals? Are you working toward them? Have you established an action plan? Do you have a list of things you'll need to do to succeed? You've probably done all those things if you're serious about reaching your goal. You may have already completed some of your plan and you believe you're doing everything you can to reach your goal. But, are you making progress? Really? Or, are you spinning your wheels wondering when you'll get some traction and start moving? [Read More]
• Five Reasons NOT to Set Goals - Yes, that's my topic in this article. I've heard these reasons, and more, for not setting and pursuing goals. The people that give these reasons really believe them. And, every one of these reasons work! What does that mean? It means that if you use any of them, they will help you NOT reach your goal! [Read More]
• Where are Your Goals Taking You? - When you come to a fork in the road, how do you know which one to take? The well-known quotation from Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland" addresses this question so well:
  Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
  The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
  Alice: I don't much care where.
  The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
  Alice: so long as I get somewhere.
  The Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough. [Read More]
• Are You Too Old to Have Goals? - I was visiting with a friend the other day; we were talking about some of the things I have written about setting goals. I was surprised to hear her say: "Oh, I'm too old to have goals!" Yes, I was surprised, especially since we're both about the same age! I responded that you're never too old to have goals, but I've been thinking about it a lot ever since. Is there a time when you're "too old" to have goals? Let's take a look at a few examples. [Read More]
• Answer Three Questions and Make Your Goals Attainable - If you've done very much reading about the subject of setting goals, you've probably seen the acronym "SMART." This acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic/Relevant, and Time Bound. That's a pretty good set of considerations, but I'm going to focus on just one in this article. [Read More]
• Reset Your Goals - Have you ever set goals for something you really wanted to accomplish and then fallen short? Well, probably if the answer to the first part of that question is "yes," then the answer to the second part of the question is "yes." Falling short of the goal (notice I did not say failing!) is a normal part of the process! The question is: "Then what?" [Read More]
• Dreams, Goals, and Achievement - Pretty much everything you read about goals in human achievement tells you about the importance of goals, how to make them, and how to use them to succeed. Unless this is the first article you've read about goals or you're a confirmed doubter, you know that goals are important. [Read More]
• Failing Kids? Teach Them Goal Achievement! - Do you have children? How old are they? If they're in school, how are they doing? Do you know that you can teach them something now, however young they happen to be, something that will benefit them for the rest of their lives? You can start teaching them something today that you may never have been taught; you can teach them how to practice goal setting and goal achievement. [Read More]
• Four Reasons Humans Act Like Crabs - I've heard many times about crabs in a crab pot. It goes like this. If you put one crab in a crab pot, he'll climb out. It may take multiple tries, but a crab pot is not his normal environment so he wants to leave. (He doesn't know this, but he has a GOAL!) Now, if you put more than one crab in the crab pot and one of them tries to climb out, the other crabs will pull him back into the pot. It's sort of like they feel they're stuck there, so why should he get out? So, why do human beings act like crabs? [Read More]