Fashion Career Expert: Maria Pesin

Keeping Your Commitments To Yourself And Achieving Your Goals - Part 2

Here are the top ten reasons for making sure you achieve your goals:

1. You learn how to achieve your goals.
2. You move forward in your life.
3. You have a sense of accomplishment.
4. It gives you grater self esteem.
5. It gives you a feeling of control over your life.
6. You live a life of integrity.
7. It sets an excellent example for your children.
8. It keeps you from being stuck and zapping your energy .
9. You can then move on to the next goal.
10. It brings order to your life.

As you can see it just isn’t important to set goals but also to achieve them. So if you are having trouble achieving your goals make smaller ones that are achievable. They will train you to be more successful in following through on the bigger ones.

Keeping Your Commitments To Yourself And Achieving Your Goals - Part 1

Goal setting is a very effective way to achieve the success you want in your life. You set a goal to lose 20 lbs in 3 months, or to save $1,000 in a year, or maybe to buy a new house by 2012. These are great goals. You have something you want to do. You quantify it and you have a date by when you want to have it happen. But, what happens if you do not achieve it. What if you keep making the same New Years resolution on January 1st but you get no where close to accomplishing it? In my case every year a I made a New Years resolution to learn French. And every year I came no where near learning French. Finally I realized that this goal was not so important to me so I dropped it from the list. Maybe later in life I may pick it up again. But, there are goals that I know I must achieve. For example losing weight. This I must do for my health so I cannot drop it. However I am not even close to losing the weight I want. What is the solution?

It is very important to set goals and achieve them. By not achieving them you tell your brain that you are less capable. It tells your brain that you do not honor yourself and your commitments to yourself and that you are not important. If you promised your child you would take them to the playground on Saturday, you would absolutely keep this promise. Why than would you do any less for yourself? By keeping your promises to yourself you honor yourself and send your brain the right message. This is a life skill that you must learn.

　

　

Being Organized Is Not Overrated!

Have you ever walked into someone’s office or looked at a coworkers desk and wondered how they work in such chaos. They tell you they know where every paper is. But I will tell you that I really doubt it. There is the rare person who thrives in disorder. Usually that is not the case. Most often people who function like this drop balls and do not perform at peak. For myself if my office is in too much disarray it messes with my head. I just do not think as clearly.

It is definitely worth the time to set up your desk and office so that it functions like a cockpit on a plane. Efficiently and clearly. Do what it takes to get the supplies you need and use them to bring order. Systems for how you function are an extremely important part of the process. Take the time to figure out what it is you need to do in order to do your job as proficiently as possible. You will find your productivity increases exponentially.