Saturday, August 18, 2007

GOAL SETTING

The Inspirational Power of Goal-setting


Allow me to start with some very important questions.
Do you remember how motivated you were to succeed in your career when you were younger?
Did you really want to achieve your maximum potential?
And here's the most important question...
Where is your written list of goals and how would you know how well you have achieved them?
Most people I ask this question are unable to produce the list because they never made one in the first place! Some did make a list but it got lost somewhere in a sea of paper.
It has been documented that the one disciplined habit that separates the top three percent of the population from the rest is that of writing down their goals, believing in them and keeping them as a focus for direction.
There are two essential elements of the goals process:
1. Goal-Setting: choosing goals with a positive attitude, passionate desire and strong belief and self-confidence.
2. Goal-Getting: using that committed attitude to applied action with skills and disciplined strategies.
1. GOAL-SETTING
Goal-setting is inspirational through highlighting the benefits in striving for an outcome.
When you get excited about the rewards at the end of your work, "you get the fire in your belly", you get into action and action is the key to goal-achievement.
2. GOAL-GETTING - Skills and Strategies Necessary for Goal-Achievement
The most important generalized skills and strategies for goal-achievement are:
- Planning
- Managing Time
- Keeping Agreements.
It has been documented repeatedly, that time spent on planning is critical if you want to achieve a goal with least hiccups. Here is an invaluable saying: People who fail to Plan, Plan to fail.
Time management is easy to say and hard to do. The best plans can be interrupted by unseen or unexpected demands - computers break down, people get the flu.
Time managers are really task managers and they do this best by having a focus on one task at a time. They may need to actively arrange uninterrupted time, by managing other people. Agreement keeping is the essential ingredient in goal-getting.
Effective goals management is ten times more important than effective time management. A person with effective weekly goals and weak time management has a better chance of achieving worthwhile results than a person with weak goals and strong time management.
Goal-setting can make all the difference to your bottom line and if your competitors are achieving their goals, you may be left behind!
HOW TO SET GOALS
Goal-setting doesn't have to be a complex process. In fact, the simple is usually the best. You need to make your goals SMART
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Achievable
R - Realistic and
T - Time Framed
AND
S - Simple
M - Meaningful
A - As if they are right here, right now
R - Responsible
T - Toward What you want
There is nothing as motivating as an impending event to encourage you to get a task done.
The best way to harness this is to declare your goal to someone you trust, ask them to be your coach and expect that you will achieve the goal as well as expected and by the due date. Your coach can be a professional, someone you love, a work colleague, a respected mentor, or just a good buddy. The primary task of the coach is to remind you that you are committed to achieving your goal. It's fun and sometimes more helpful, if they also encourage you, share your rewards and help celebrate when you achieve your goal
You also need a reliable means of documenting your goalmaking and goal management. There are many tools which can help - diaries, performance planners, electronic mechanisms and software (of course I recommend the GoalMaker software which I co-authored! ). Invest in a good tool and use it consistently and it will give you the edge over your competitors who rely on their fallible memory!
GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR GOALMAKING
The goal making process follows logical, sequential behavioural steps. However, a substantial amount of the impact depends on your mental attitude. These guidelines reinforce a positive attitude so that you become unconsciously competent in setting your goals
1. Identify your mission or purpose in life and set your goals to align with this.
2. Decide what you really want and write it in the present tense as if it's already been achieved. Goals must be in writing. An unwritten want is just a wish. If it's in writing, it's a real, substantial commitment.
3. Goals must be concrete and specific - broad desires have no effect. Specify the tasks you will need to achieve each goal and then break each task into manageable "bite-size" bits. (How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.)
4. Goals must be believable. If you don't believe you can reach it, you won't. Eliminate the negatives in your life and focus on positive things. You are responsible for your thoughts, so make them positive ones. Don't listen to people who say, "It will never work. You can't do that. You'll never make it". Remember that Christopher Columbus would never have sailed over the horizon unless he had belief in himself.
5. Goals must be challenging and demand more from you. Be willing to stretch your comfort zone.
6. Act to set your goals in motion. Planning is only the first stage of goal achievement. First set your goals, then act to get your goals.
7. Apply self-discipline. No matter how many people are aware of your goal, the final responsibility rests with you. Remember - the buck stops here. You need to consistently organise yourself and work with determination and commitment if you are to achieve the success you truly deserve.
8. Goals must include your loved ones. Goals must harmonise and be in balance, not conflict with each other.
Goals must have target dates for completion. Set a target date for your goal and share it with someone who will encourage you to meet the deadline. There is nothing as motivating as an "impending event" to get you into action.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

LIST OF USEFUL GDS



1 A ship docked in harbour cannot face the storms
2 Advertisement is wasteful expenditure
3 Advertising is a diplomatic way of telling a lie
4 Age and Youth: Experience and Young Talent
5 All Work and No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy
6 America's war on Iraq
7 Are women are better parents than men
8 Are women as good as men
9 Are women managers better managers
10 Balance between Professionalism and Family
11 Banning fashion shows and New Year parties
12 Banning of tobacco and alcohol advertisement.
13 BCCI - Board or Business House
14 Beauty contests degrade womanhood
15 Beauty pageants are a marketing gimmick
16 Bihar after Laloo
17 Black is beautiful
18 BPO s in INDIA
19 Bullet For Bullet
20 Business is a war
21 Capital punishment should be abolished
22 Capitalism is a very flawed system
23 Celebrity endorsement – a boon or a bane
24 Classical music heritage and the growing pop- culture
25 Cloning should be banned
26 Cold drinks advertisement by celebrity
27 Consumerism is destroying the social fabric of Indian culture
28 Conventionalism and Modernity
29 Corruption is the price we pay for democracy
30 cricket is harming the development of other sports
31 Democracy is hampering India progress
32 Desire is the root of the all suffering
33 Developing countries need trade
34 Developing countries should spend more on development
35 Discuss about Indian population
36 Discuss on dowry system
37 Discuss unemployment
38 Disinvestment - Would it go through this year
39 Divorce and remarriage should be encouraged
40 Do beautiful people live better lives
41 Do Beauty and Brains Go together
42 Do children learn more quickly than adults
43 Doctors accountability to improve Health-Care
44 Does Beauty and Brains go together
45 Does ghost exist?
46 Does the formal dress code necessary
47 Dot com or doubt com?
48 Early marriages are more convenient
49 East is East & West is where all the action is
50 Effect of cinema on Youth
51 Effect of liberalization on poverty
52 Election in India should restrict voting only to the literate
53 Electric media is more beneficial than print media
54 Ethics in Business are just a passing fashion
55 Euthanasia should be banned
56 Every cloud has a silver lining
57 Every thing happens for our own good.
58 Everyone is basically selfish
59 Everything that has a beginning has an end
60 Family owned business vs. professionally run business
61 Film awards are farce
62 Film stars entering in politics
63 Films are corrupting the Indian Youth
64 Food is first ethics are next
65 Food, shelter and Mobile. The new paradigm
66 Foreign televison channels destroying our culture
67 Foreign trade is necessary for any country to survive
68 Foreign trade is necessary for any country to survive
69 Formulate the government's health policy to control
70 Free market is a prerequisite for growth
71 Future of BPO s and KPO s
72 Future of low cost airline
73 Ganguly vs. Chappell . Is the conflict justified
74 Global terrorism
75 Globalization in India
76 Government should clean its own hands before pointing
77 Growing Menace of Casteism and Regionalism
78 Hardworking or Smart working
79 Have the nuclear tests of 1998 benefited or harmed India
80 Have the nuclear tests of 1998 benefited or harmed India?
81 Higher education should be made possible only
82 How appropriate is the Reservation policy in India
83 How do television picture affect our behavior
84 How safe to work in Call centers at night for girls
85 How to deal with high oil prices
86 How will you motivate terrorist to spare the innocent
87 If I was the Finance Minister
88 If I was the Prime Minister
89 Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India
90 Impact of globalization or westernization on Indian culture
91 India after independence
92 India is resource rich but technologically poor
93 India is rich country of poor people
94 India needs Gujral Doctrine for better international relations
95 India shining. Reality or myth
96 India should go for the presidential form of democracy
97 India should go for the presidential form of democracy
98 India spends too much on defence
99 India towards westernization or modernization
100 India’s vote on against Iraq
101 Indian Cricket team shouldn't be allowed to play abroad
102 Indian cultural values are getting eroded
103 Indians perform better as individuals rather than in groups
104 India's stand on Iran’s nuclear issue
105 Individual freedom and civil society
106 Inflation is inevitable in our developing country
107 Is an MBA necessary to succeed in life
108 Is China better than India in software
109 Is dependence on computers a good thing
110 Is divorce a necessary evil?
111 Is God male?
112 Is god man or woman
113 Is governor necessary for states
114 Is India developing or neglecting
115 Is India ready for commonwealth 2010
116 Is it necessary to ban COCO-COLA
117 Is it necessary to change the name of our well known cities
118 Is male and female equal in all aspects
119 Is management art or a science
120 Is politics barrier in career
121 Is quota necessary now
122 Is remixing good trend in music
123 Is Russia using its oil for blackmail
124 Is Swadeshi relevant for India today
125 Is the business of business only business
126 Is the consumer really the king in India
127 Is the consumer really the king in India
128 Is the Indian foreign policy adequate
129 Is the usage of sap in Indian companies worthy
130 IT is creating a digital divide in society
131 Job opportunities high in India or foreign
132 Joint family is a blessing in disguise
133 KBC less about knowledge more about money
134 Knowledge with out character is not worthy
135 Left is Right
136 Life is beautiful
137 Life of Albert Einstein
138 Life of Amartya sen
139 Life of Bill Gates
140 Life of Mahatma Gandhi
141 Life of Mother Teresa
142 Life of Swami Vivekananda
143 Listening is as important as speaking
144 Love Marriages or Arrange Marriages
145 Luck does not make a person successful or unsuccessful
146 Man is controlling over machine
147 Management education is must for success in life
148 Managerial skills learnt in the classroom can never match
149 Managing Your Study Time
150 Marriage is a social trap
151 MBA in India is highly overrated
152 MBAs are useful in the manufacturing department
153 MBAs are useful in the production department
154 Media - Too much of a free hand
155 Media and Privacy
156 Mobile phones in colleges
157 Money is required to earn more money
158 Money is required to earn more money
159 Moral Policing
160 Morality of the movies in today’s scenario
161 Multinational corporations: Are they devils in disguise
162 ndians are excellent individual workers but poor team workers
163 never judge a person by external appearances
164 Nice Guys Finish Last
165 Nuclear war cannot be won and should not be fought
166 Our political system is not a reason for our backwardness
167 Parallel courts like shariyat are necessary
168 Parliaments are a waste of public money
169 Peace and non-violence are outdated concepts
170 Piracy in the field of computer and bollywood
171 Political parties have outlived their utility
172 Position of Women in India
173 Present state of Australia Cricket team
174 Present state of Indian Cricket team
175 protest against the bars located in a public place
176 Red is red, green is green
177 Reliance Split
178 Religion is a private affair and should be of no concern
179 Religion should not be mixed with politics
180 Reservation of women in parliament should be there
181 Reservations in IIT s
182 Resurrection of BJP
183 Rise of sensex on Indian economy
184 Role and future of banking and insurance sector
185 Role of opposition in democracy
186 Role of parliament in budget making
187 rowth in India confined to the growth in sensex
188 Sacred cows make the best burger
189 Satellite channels are creating cultural erosion
190 Science is a Boon or Bane
191 Secularism has become a tool to justify the wrongs
192 Security Cameras and Privacy
193 Sensex - Hype or Real
194 Sensex's Bull Run
195 Should all Indian cricketers be treated like Ganguly
196 Should dangerous sports be banned
197 Should human cloning be permitted
198 Should India and Pakistan be united to a nationShould India and Pakistan be united to a nation
199 Should India go to war with Pakistan
200 Should India join unsc without the power of veto
201 Should India sign the CTBT?
202 Should managers be good technical personal?
203 Should mercy killing be made legal
204 Should phone tapping be banned
205 Should sania mirza wear mini skirts on court
206 Should smoking be banned completely
207 Should smoking be banned in movies
208 Should sting operations be really carried out
209 Should students join Indian Politics
210 Should tainted ministers allowed to fight elections
211 Should the censor board be abolished
212 Should the public sector be privatized
213 Should there be reservation for private jobs
214 Should there be reservation for private jobs?
215 Should trade unions be allowed in it sector
216 Should we ban the celebration of Valentines Day
217 Should we pursue our policy of dialogue with Pakistan
218 Should Youth indulge in politics
219 Showing Violence and Crimes in movies
220 Smaller states lead to better governance
221 Sonia Gandhi’s resignation
222 start ups have more scope for professional
223 State interventions in market kind or mixed economy
224 Strength and weakness of bollywood
225 Success is due only hard work
226 Television viewing has taken away the reading habit
227 Testing of products on animals
228 The Internet is an exercise in hype
229 The Malthusian Economic prediction is no longer relevant
230 The objective of Management is to maximize profits
231 The one who loses is the real winner
232 The rush for MBA is really a rush for big money
233 The us's control over the internet
234 The wheel is turning round and round
235 There can never be a classless society
236 There is no right way to do a wrong thing
237 To grow in business you need not be dishonest
238 TRIPS Controversy
239 Universal Disarmament is a must
240 UN's peace activities
241 Up the Down Staircase
242 US a threat to global economy or a good political power
243 US economy headed the Japanese economy way
244 Voters are responsible for the criminalization of politics
245 Voting rights to illiterates in India is illogical
246 Water: The cause for 3rd world war
247 We must have only two national parties to contest
248 What is bpo contribution in India’s gdp
249 What is the success mantra
250 What should be the form of penalty for corrupt politicians
251 What will be most challenging thing for mankind
252 When I woke up in the morning I saw
253 Where is great Indian family headed
254 Whether we should change national game of India
255 Who is happy married or unmarried
256 Who is the best pm of India
257 Why can’t we be world players in industry
258 Why do we lag behind China
259 Why ganguly has been dismissed
260 Why Santa clause is old
261 Will India become a superpower in 25 years?
262 Will India’s gdp growth rate hit 10%
263 Will Quota Affects Quality
264 Women are not fit for DEFENCE
265 Women cannot successfully combine both career and home
266 Women power is more aggressive than men
267 Women should have equal rights like men
268 Women’s empowerment will lead to social development
269 Work smarter, not just harder
270 WTO trade agreement - Effect on textiles
271 Yellow journalism