Goal-setting is a powerful process for imagining your ideal future and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into a reality. This process helps you choose how you'll spend your time, what distractions you'll avoid, and ultimately, how you'll measure your success. These resources will help you identify your personal and professional goals and develop a plan to achieve them.
Maximum Productivity: Setting Goals that Work
Before you jump into learning about goals, first find out how good you are at meeting your existing ones with this quiz.
Achieving goals you've set for yourself (or that others have set for you) is an important indicator of how well you're doing at work. Learn how goal-setting can improve your work performance with these resources.
Before you jump into something, ask yourself: is this helping me with my goals? By identifying your priorities, you're helping yourself eliminate time-wasters and extraneous, meaningless activities.
When setting goals, there are a few mistakes you'll want to avoid, including setting too many goals and setting unachievable goals. Learn how to avoid those mistakes and others with these resources.