"Goal setting is the ability to define what you want. The ability to turn vague desires into concrete objectives with a deadline is a powerful one. Whether you...
"Skillful goal setting helps to minimize stress. You set only those goals that you really want to achieve. These goals are important for your success and...
"For most people, learning how to establish goals is the root of their motivation system. A firm belief in the importance of goals as the cornerstone of...
"Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway. In the graduation-speech...
1. Awareness: I am aware that I need to change. 2. Emotion: I want to change. 3. Decision: I have decided to change. 4. Cognition: I know how to change. 5....
"Top goal achievers all agree on one thing. We must get very emotional about our goals or we are wasting our time setting them. How emotional are you about...
"Avoid the evil companion disregarding the goal, intent on the out-of-tune way." http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.03.than.html From: Sutta...
"Abandoning idle chatter, he abstains from idle chatter. He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, & the...
"In particular, this discourse counters a common misperception: that the distress that comes from having an unachieved goal is an obstacle in the practice, and...
"If you're approaching meditation as a lifetime activity, you've got to have goals. You've got to want results. Otherwise the whole thing loses focus, and you...
"So be the sort of person who's always hunting for something skillful to do, because this lifetime is so short. If you spend your time just being depressed or...
Check out these mp3 audio free Sample Affirmations "Whenever I set a definite goal, I take immediate action towards its attainment to create and sustain...
"Attasammaapa.nidhi: "one's self rightly directed." This means one must decide on a proper objective in life and set oneself on the right path leading to it. ...
Dear Group, I set a goal to get a mousepad for my Mum for Christmas. I went to the information desk at the Shopping Mall and said I wanted a mousepad with...
"These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "plan,"...
"Possibly the trickiest part of getting what you want in life is just figuring out what you really want! And yet it is certainly the most important part of...
"When things don't go well, just drop whatever it is that's not going well. Move back to a level where you're pretty sure you can do things properly." ...
"...sometimes we have to face up to the fact that OK maybe our practice is going to be slow. But at least it's a practice. At least it is going someplace. As...
"One of the great blessings of the Buddha's teaching is the remedy it can offer for the problem of meaninglessness so widespread in human life today. The...
"One of the most therapeutic things you can do for yourself when depressed is take something small, plan it, and do it- regardless how `meaningless' it is in...
"Have a deep appreciation for where you are today. Only then can you truly begin to dream about the future." p92 "Goal-free living: How to have the life you...
"We take ourselves so seriously, 'I'm such an important person, my life is so terribly important, that I must be extremely serious about it at all moments. My...
"...an ability to give thought would seem to be essential for success. If we asked a carpenter what he was making and he said that he had no idea we might...
"Wiseman, 37, is head of a psychology research department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. For the past eight years, he and his colleagues at the...
"On the other hand, if one denies any kind of self, saying that the cosmos is totally "other," then one is assuming that there is nothing with any long-term...