Goals and personal growth: “Getting it done.” October 14, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, baseball, focus on the present, goal setting, Joe Girardi, personal development, personal growth, self-improvement
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One of the characteristics we may tend to develop in pursuing a program of personal growth, or self-improvement, is that we sometimes can become overly analytical about our short, medium, and long term goals.
This can result in too much time spent in preparation for a goal and too little time in doing what is required to realize the goal.
We focus too much on the ultimate results we want concerning our goal, but don’t pay enough attention to executing the “do” things that will get us there.
Too much planning, at times, can result in too little accomplished.
MLB baseball manager Joe Girardi, in talking about challenges facing his team in the playoffs in 2012 said the same principles of achievement apply in baseball as they do in life. “I’m talking about everyone that goes through struggles in life or goes through pain in life,” Girardi said.
“We just have to find a way to get it done.”
“You have to make adjustments.”
Ego and mindset management: Focus on the task at hand October 6, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, controlling ego, ego management, managing the ego, personal development
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One of the difficulties in controlling our mindset is in trying to deal with our ego’s tendency to fill our heads with all of our problems at the same time.
This can lead to our mindset focussing on the overall results we want in our lives rather than concentrating on dealing with immediate tasks on hand that could help in achieving those results.
For example, we might be in more debt than we want and the overall result we want is to remove that financial worry.
In this case we should be looking at finding one step, or one task at hand that we could do to work towards that goal.
Mentally dwelling on our entire life situation and its problems will not accomplish much; but taking one action towards solving one of our problems, and doing this every day can lead to a sense of optimism and accomplishment, and eventually a solution.
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