Are you achieving the goals you set for yourself back on January 1, 2010? As we near the half way mark of the year 2010, it’s a good time to inspect your goals and evaluate your progress. It’s time to turn up the heat to 212 degrees and give that extra degree of effort to achieve your goals in 2010!
In his book for Simple Truths: Goals…The 10 Rules for Achieving Success, author Gary Ryan Blair has a no-nonsense roadmap that will allow you to fulfill your purpose. For more than 20 years, Gary has been helping business owners, corporate executives and sales professionals manage their time, set their priorities and build sustainable competitive advantage.
Today, I’d like to share Gary’s eighth rule to success. Inspect what you Expect:
Inspect what you Expect:
by Gary Ryan BlairCHANGE IS INEVITABLE – GROWTH IS OPTIONAL.Change knocks the wind out of all good plans. Unless performance is reviewed regularly, growth becomes stunted.
We get what we inspect, not just what we expect.
Be uncompromising in areas that permit no compromises, such as inspecting your expectations. Do not hesitate to evaluate your progress. If you believe that taking time to inspect your expectations is incompatible with progress, rethink your definition of progress. Inspection actually expands time by helping to maintain focus. If you do not use time properly through regular inspections, you burn it through neglect. Just as DNA’s coding is built into every cell of your body, the combination for achieving any goal requires the inspection of expectations.
You must evaluate whether the actions you are taking are going to produce the results you desire. It is important to perpetuate and amplify those actions that produce desired results. You are your own judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to evaluating a goal and deciding what action to take, whether it be changing tactics or dropping the goal.
No matter what you want to achieve, Gary’s book on Goals can be your blueprint for success. As he says, “Embrace these ten rules of goal setting and give witness to a powerful transition in your life.”
When you know for certain that you are on the wrong road, you change course. But if you are driving along ignoring landmarks and road signs, you may continue on the wrong road for a long time without knowing you are lost.
You will make progress when you take time to inspect past performance and learn from your experience.
The purpose of measuring performance and inspecting expectations is to improve performance. You must know how you are performing the “must do” actions necessary to achieve your goals. Inspecting expectations allows you to know what you are looking for before you actually see it!
The best time to establish expectations is when you establish your overall plan. That way you can evaluate the tasks before you act, prepare mentally, and set a pace.
Start off knowing the rules, and how you must play to succeed. Inspections are meant to revisit, revise and reinforce predetermined standards of performance. An inspection process will make you aware of performance gaps. It is this “white space” that you must manage to achieve the results you desire.
Look at this as a personal performance audit or balance sheet that quickly informs you of your assets and liabilities. You will undoubtedly see and feel changes in your life; they will be distinct and noticeable when you inspect your expectations.
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Goals, The 10 Rules for Achieving Success
From: Simple Truths
Childhood should be a time to learn and grow in a safe environment feeling loved and protected. The cares of adulthood are in the future and every day brings a chance to have a new adventure. Unfortunately, too many children suffer from severe anxiety. I wrote this article to make some suggestions on how to help a child with anxiety.
Many times a parent recognizes a specific situation, such as starting school or staying overnight at a friends house, that is the cause of anxiety. In these situations, reassurance and loving support may be enough to help the child recover balance. You can explain that it’s normal to have some feelings of anxiety when things change, but that doesn’t always mean you shouldn’t make the change.
It also helps to protect a child from disturbing or anxiety provoking images, movies, TV programs, news reports and so on. I think we aren’t careful enough as a society as to what we allow children to see. Young children simply don’t have the maturity required to process adult themes appropriately. Letting them see material they can’t process appropriately sets the scene for severe anxiety.
It’s also a good idea to pay attention to a child’s diet. Too much highly processed food and sweets negatively affect not only their health but their mindset. Some kids also get way too much caffeine (usually from soft drinks). Sometimes cleaning up the diet and cutting out caffeine is all it takes to eliminate childhood anxiety.
Of course is much more you can do to help a child with excessive anxiety. The exact form of help will vary with the child and factors such as their families situation. Any effort required to get the needed information is well worth it.
A wonderful program to help children overcome anxiety is Anxiety Free Child. I highly recommend that any parent whose child is suffering with excessive anxiety check it out. Just imagine how wonderful it will be when your child is filled with joy rather than fear.
Be sure to check that out. In addition,click here for more information on childhood anxiety help
Rest assuredthat you’re not the first parent whose child has struggled with anxiety. It is possible to help them overcome
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