A dilemma is upon us
Shoulders shrug with hopeless sigh
Rich get richer; Poor grow poorer
No one understanding why
“Streets”
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Dr. Harold
LYH36: 15 Goals Everyone Should Pursue in 2015 [PODCAST]
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- Featured Presentation: 15 Goals Everyone Should Pursue in 2015
- Lesson Principle: “If You Don’t Set Goals for Yourself, Someone Else Will Set Yours For Them”
Featured Presentation
You can find the full blog post on this topic at haroldarnold.com/2015goals
There is one not so secret about those people who achieve great things. They set and commit to goals. The most successful achievers commit to four types of goals (personal growth, healthy lifestyle, networking, and helping others).
If you cannot commit to all of them, then choose at least two personal growth and healthy lifestyle goals and one networking and servant goal.
15 Goals Everyone Should Pursue for 2015
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Another year is almost in the books—only a few short weeks remaining. Here’s the question. How much did you progress towards your personal goals? Remember those New Year’s resolutions that you set 11 months ago? If they are just a distant memory, it may be time to ask yourself how you will fare better in 2015. Ultimately, it is about committing to a clear set of goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-oriented. The popular acrostic S.M.A.R.T. is used to describe these measurable aspirations. To help with your goal-setting for 2015, I’d like you to consider these 15 goals that everyone should pursue.
There is one not so secret about those people who achieve great things. They set and commit to goals. The most successful achievers commit to four types of goals (personal growth, healthy lifestyle, networking, and helping others).
Personal growth goals push you towards your life’s purpose and/or vocational excellence.
Healthy lifestyle goals help you maintain the core physical, psychological, and spiritual strength necessary to sustain you through difficult times.
Networking goals allow you to leverage the relationships with others to grow as a person and open further possibilities.
Finally, Servant goals remind you that helping others is ultimately the most important accomplishment.
With these objectives in mind, consider the fifteen goals for 2015. They may not all be applicable to you. But, choose the ones that are relevant.
If you cannot commit to all of them, then choose at least two personal growth and healthy lifestyle goals and one networking and servant goal.
LYH35: Four Steps to a Grateful Thanksgiving [PODCAST]
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- Featured Presentation: Four Ways to a Grateful Thanksgiving
- Branding Expert: Dick Bruso, Heard Above the Noise
- Lesson Principle: “Your Gratitude Determines Your Altitude”
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You can find the full blog post on this topic at haroldarnold.com/thanksgiving2014
No matter your condition, thankfulness is a choice.
I would like you to consider four steps to choose thankfulness this Thanksgiving.
Step 1: As specifically as you can write down the ten things that you are most grateful for this year.
Here’s my top-10 to guide your own list generation.
The Top 10 Things for Which I’m Most Grateful in 2014
- My wife’s personal commitment to being more grateful and its impact on our home
- My sister’s (Letitia) pregnancy and impending delivery–due date December 2nd. This is the first child (Kennedy) that one of my sister’s will have.
- Successfully completed a 12-month vegetarian fast (with my spouse) in which I consecrated myself to the pursuit of my purpose
- My children’s (Quilan and Kyrsten’s) academic success in grad school and high school respectively
- Launching a new website with 35 consecutive weeks of new blog posts and podcasts
- Spending two days with a branding expert (Dick Bruso) to develop the PERFECT brand for me (stay tuned for more information about that)
- Spending seven days in Trinidad with one of my best friends (Paula) and her husband (Philip Thompson)
- Spending two days in Atlanta with a couple (Pastors Wesley and Rose Marie Greene) who I think of as spiritual mentors
- Launching a MasterMind group with an amazing group of achievers
- Finishing my first 10-mile Broad Street run in Philadelphia (along with 35,000 others)
Step 2: Identify the Thankfulness Themes that are evident from your Top 10 list.
Step 3: Express your thankfulness to the people that you mentioned on your list
Step 4: Thank God from whom all blessings flow
Leave a comment and let me know for what you are thankful. Can’t wait to hear it.
I wish you the happiest of Thanksgiving holidays.
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Four Steps to a Grateful Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving week! Next to Christmas, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s about family, food, and festivity. But, most importantly, it is a time to be intentional in reminiscing about how blessed I am. Too often we focus on the disappointments and the failures without being truly thankful. In a real way, thankfulness is the key to happiness and success in all your endeavors. How thankful are you? Today, I would like you and me to deeply consider our gratitude.
Even as I write this, I am extremely disappointed with some news I received today. I invested a lot of emotional, financial, and spiritual resources in this endeavor. And, right now it feels like it was for naught. I am still in a somewhat disoriented state from the news.
This then is the absolute perfect time to deeply consider all for which I am grateful. I choose not to focus on the reality of my disappointment. Rather, I will prioritize my gratefulness.
I choose to remember the people that touched me this year (including my awesome wife and children). I choose to focus on the breakthroughs that I gained. I choose to deliberate on the amazing future that I expect to have.
No matter your condition, thankfulness is a choice.
I would like you to consider four steps to choose thankfulness this Thanksgiving.
Step 1: As specifically as you can write down the ten things that you are most grateful for this year.
Be specific. In other words, don’t just write that you are thankful for your spouse. Record specifically what your spouse did this year that makes you particularly thankful.
Here’s my top-10 to guide your own list generation.