We’re not quite a week into the New Year and if you’re already struggling with your Resolutions, this is for you. Resolutions and the accompanying goals often fail not because they’re the wrong goals, but because we’re not managing ourselves properly to achieve them. The result is that we sabotage ourselves on the way to success.
Vistage speaker and Sales Management, Inc President Colleen Stanley is one of the country’s leading experts on applying Emotional Intelligence to selling. She has three helpful tips on goal setting that may give you the edge to go from resolution to solution. It’s all her in her two-and-a-half-minute video: The Surprising Reason Goal Setting Fails.
Additionally, on the way to your goal you need to manage your response to setbacks along the along the way. Marissa Sharif from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania thinks energy management regarding resolution is key. And to that end, a little cheating may help.