People who use their strengths are more productive, engaged, and successful. Knowing your strengths can help you choose priorities, to leverage your time to make the most of them. Knowing your strengths can help you find a compatible career and…
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Discover Your Heroes
Part One of Discover U in Ten Steps Since my website is called the Daily PlanIt, it might not surprise you that one of my heroes is Superman! Knowing your heroes gives you insight into your character. Getting started Grab…
Life Areas for a well balanced life
The 12 life areas in the Year of Personal Development challenge are: MIND: Mental, Career, Financial BODY: Physical, Recreation, Organization HEART: Relationships, Emotional, Social SOUL: Character, Purpose, Spirituality Consider these life areas when choosing goals, generating goal ideas or creating…
Example Goals
If you want to generate ideas for goals, but don’t know where to start, here’s some ideas to get you thinking: There are goal plans at the Daily PlanIt. Top goals from 43 things at zeroproject.com ehow has action step…
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Top ten blogs on time management
Updated 6/20/11 There are many great sites dedicated to exploring ways to use time well. Here are my top favorites. For these and more, go to my del.icio.us bookmarks list. Lifehack — Daily digest and pointers on productivity, getting things…
A Prison of Our Own Making
This weekend I went to see the movie “Walk the Line” based on the life of Johnny Cash. It portrays his struggles with coming to terms with a difficult childhood and other pressures. In the audition that launched Johnny on…
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A Weekly Personal Development Plan
There are many life areas to set goals and develop personally. The Life Area Energy Level Gauge is a tool that makes it easy to see where to begin with areas that are low. Then plan for actions to take…
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Celebrate!
Looking back over the past year, be sure to congratulate yourself on the successes you have achieved. Sometimes we are in such a hurry to move on to the next goal that we don’t take the time for the pat…
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Visualization Exercises
How do you see your life in the next year? The more clearly we can paint a detailed picture, the more likely it is that it will come true. The following exercises are from the book “Experiences in Visual Thinking”…
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How to Make Goals Specific & Measurable
Goals that are clearly defined are specific and measurable. Measures motivate as they enable us to see progress (or a lack of it). The best measures are: • Meaningful • Evidence of accomplishment • Target key drivers of change •…
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