True success comes from knowing your cores and making decisions that honor those values. You can figure out your values by examining something that makes you very angry as I did when I examined my strong reaction to Don Draper of Mad Men. Now let’s complement that with an experience from the opposite end of the spectrum: joy.
Goal Achievement – Get Unstuck and Figure Out Your Challenges
You have set a goal that feels authentic and inspirational. You have refined it down to your short-term SMART Goal so that your goal feels manageable. You are taking your weekly actions. And then something happens. You get stuck.
This is extremely common! If goal-achievement were merely a matter of setting the right goals, we would all get what we wanted all the time. Now we need one to go one step further and figure out the challenges that might be getting in the way of your accomplishing your big goal? This is a critical step to successful goal achievement and one that you need to master so that your goals do not get sabotaged by those obstacles!
Successful Goal Achievement – 5 Steps to Help You Overcome Your Obstacles to Success
In my last article, we saw how a great goal might get sabotaged by a host of different challenges, ranging from lack of technical skills, professional experience and career advancement to lack of money to negative thoughts that cast doubts on your abilities to poor time management. If you are committed to your goal, you have faced the music and have made a list of all your challenges. The next step is to come up with strategies for overcoming those challenges and breaking those down into the weekly actions that will get you to your goals.
How?
How to Get Unstuck – Tap Into Your Ideal Self As Your Secret Weapon For Success
Where are you in your life right now? Maybe you have a vision of where you want to be down the road. Maybe you have some ideas and are not sure which direction you want to go in. And maybe you have no idea at all and are worried about the fact that you can’t figure it all out. How would you like a powerful tool to get you unstuck?
How to Set Priorities – 3 Steps For Taking Control of Your Time
If you are like many people, you are juggling a lot of things: your career or school, creative and personal development activities, your relationships, your health and wellness-not to mention having some fun once in a while! And when you have a lot to do, it is often hard to know what to do first. Moreover, if you spend most of your time in one area like your career or school, you may be feeling out of balance and resenting the fact that that you do not have time for anything else. You start to view time as your enemy and you find that your energy is sapped and your feel even more out of control. The key to getting yourself out of this cycle is to change your relationship to time and learn how to manage yourself around time.
How to Maximize Your Productivity in 5+ Steps
How often do you feel completely overwhelmed by all the things that are on your plate both at work and in your personal life? Wouldn’t it be great to have a system that would help you organize your projects in such a way that you knew what to do and could get through your tasks with ease and confidence?
Here is a simple 5+step process that can get you out of overwhelm and make you more productive and effective.
10 Top Tips For Building a Successful Career
Building your career is exciting because it provides an opportunity to shape your life in the way you want. It can also be scary when you do not know what it is that you want to do and when you are not sure how you can make a living. The more you are in charge of your process, the better you will feel. So here are my top 10 tips to help move you forward as you create your career.
Entrepreneurial Projects at the Yale School of Music: Exploring Through the Lens of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
My project-based class at the Yale School of Music explores how to generate innovative solutions to the problems facing classical music today. This year, our projects focused on how to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classical music field. In my first post on this class, I introduced the wonderful mix of students in my class who were eager …
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Team and Group Coaching
Team Coaching Team coaching is a great way to improve the effectiveness of an ensemble or a team. In team coaching, I assess what is holding the team back and then address issues including: the purpose, mission and goals of the team; creating effective meetings with full discussion of issues, coming to decisions and creating accountability among team members; configuring …