Setting Your Sights on an Audacious Goal

Setting Your Sights on an Audacious GoalSetting Your Sights on an Audacious GoalWorking moms can easily lose who they are as a person in all of the hustle and bustle of taking care of others or striving to reach corporate goals. It can be tiring work and may bring about burn out.However, when you set personal audacious goals it focuses your attention on you and boosts your mommy energy. So if you are feeling a bit schwefelyperit its time to set your sights on some audacious goals.The definition of audacious means very confident and daring very bold and surprising or shocking courageous. So to that end, the more audacious your goal is, the more enticing itll be for you to pursue.You could have a goal of wanting to lose weight, but making it audacious means being more specific - as in, you want to lose 50 pounds. Thinking big and allowing yourself to get excited is the important thing. Now its time to get to work.Here are some tips to abflug creating your most audacious goals. How to Create Your Goals Start by giving yourself time to think about what youd like to accomplish in the next six months.A lot can happen in 180 daysTo avoid writers block dont cram your brainstorming into one sitting.Set a deadline and give yourself one week to think. To keep audacious goal setting at the forefront of your mind, set reminders on post-it notes or alarms on your phone.Schedule quick walks during your work hours with the intention to think about your audacious goal.Use your commute to and from work, too, and record your thoughts in a voice memo you can listen to later. Understand Why Your Goal Is Important Once you think of an audacious goal declare why its important to you.This definition comes into play when you need motivation to keep going.So fill in the blank, When I complete this goal Ill feel happy because Daydream about what life would be like after you reach this audacious goal. Lets say you want a fancy car to drive you and your family across the country.F ully emerge yourself into a vision of sitting in the car and smelling that new car smell.Dream about being comfortable in finding what you need because you packed so well and theres plenty of room to reach around back and find what you need.Think about all the sights youd see and how excited your husband and children would be. So when your daydream starts to end, stay in it for just a little bit longer. This may take some pushing because again, its very easy for working moms to always be on and take care of everyone, but being in this dream is a way of taking care of your needs so stay in the dream for as long as you can. Start Reaching for Your Goals Next, break down the goal into small specific small chunks.Start taking baby steps. For example, lets say one of your personal values is family and a priority of yours is to be extremely organized at home.This goal is large and can include many small tasks.Chopping the goal into small bite-size pieces makes the goal easier to attai n. You could start by focusing on one room at a time and asking, How can I make this room more efficient for me and my family in the morning so our exit strategy runs smoothly? or What can I put into place so that when we come home everything is put in its place. Make every day count by completing a small chunk of your goal (remember you have 180 days).Either when you wake for the day or before you go to bed at night think about what you could do the next day to get you one step closer to your goal.Small chunks make goals more doable and not as overwhelming. Figuring out what you want to accomplish sets the tone for the day because you know what you want to accomplish.Planning helps avoid that feeling that you are running around with your head cut off (sound familiar?). You have a sense of direction, a mission, and when a small goal is completed you get a sense of satisfaction. Remember Your Audacious Goal Working moms have a hectic and busy lifestyle, but setting an audacious g oal is a time saver. When you know what you want to get done you use less of your time and energy on unimportant things.Time is not wasted. Make hitting your audacious goal part of your self-care regime because taking care of your wants and desires will make you a happier working mom.?

If you behaved like this in high school, there is a good chance you have a high salary

If you behaved like this in high school, there is a good chance you have a high salaryIf you behaved like this in high school, there is a good chance you have a high salaryFor those of us that had less than picture perfect high school experiences, we are comforted by the fact that when we grow up we take our own future into our hands. Your popularity level, what table you sat at, and whether you related more to the crowd on Freaks and Geeks over Dawsons Creek wasnt supposed to impact your future.Well, guess what? That is apparently wrong.According to a new study published this week in theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology your behavior in high school impacts your career choice and your income level. Heres hoping you were a well-rounded brainy jock with a great sense of humor who was universally liked.Good person = good future = goodincomeBasically, if you were a responsible, good student, with an interest in academics, your future turned out just fine no matter your IQ or y our parents socioeconomic status. These good students, who also didnt tend to have trouble with reading and writing, had higher associations with getting bachelors and masters degrees and having a more prestigious job both at the 11- and 50-year mark. After 50 years, these students also were all associated with higher income.What is important to note here is that habits form in your youth can impact you much later in life.This study highlights the possibility that certain behaviors at crucial periods could have long-term consequences for a persons life, lead author Marion Spengler, PhD, of the University of Tbingen said.Research involved 80,000 students over 50 yearsEducational researchers, political scientists, and economists are increasingly interested in the traits and skills that parents, teachers, and schools should foster in children to enhance chances of success later in life, Spengler said. Our research found that specific behaviors in high school have long-lasting effects f or ones later life.Spengler and her team studied data collected by the American Institutes for Research from 346,660 U.S. high school students in 1960, and then at follow-up data from 81,912 of those students 11 years later. In 2010, 50 years after they launched the study, they looked at the profiles of 1,952 students.When the students were matriculating, they looked at their behaviors and attitudes as well as personality traits, cognitive abilities, parental socioeconomic status, and demographic factors. As adults the researchers focused oneducational attainment, income, and occupational prestige.

Flip A Rock, Find A Job

Flip A Rock, Find A JobFlip A Rock, Find A JobIm going to tell you something you already know..The job hunt can be frustrating, challenging, and scary.Lets face it, its not something you ever really aspired to get good at, and frankly, maybe you feel like youre not very good at it right now.Thats OK, and its OK to be concerned with getting through this tough parte of yur life.For the next few months and weeks, youll be looking for that great job (or, if youve already hopped on one of the more than 35,000 jobs weve published this year, perhaps you only have days left?)And youll put in a ton of effort, go through high highs and, let me be honest with you, more than a couple low lows, as you wend your way through this hunt for your next place of employment.Thats not an easy prospect to face. Wondering where youll hang your hat next. Worrying about the bills. Sitting across the dining room table from the love of your life and trying to hide the pain and humiliation you sometimes feel whe n those bad days come on in a bad way.So I want you to know that I understand what youre going through.And I also want you to know.. I need you to know, really. one more thingYou will make it through to the other side. You will meet with success. You will find your next great job.The surprising thing, actually, is that it is out there right now. A hiring manager, a recruiter, a Board, has decided that they need someone. Someone just like you.And your job, and, truth be told, my job, is to help you find that sucker as htte nicht viel gefehlt as we can its what youve hired me to do. (Thanks, by the way)Unfortunately, even in these days of the internet, even in these days of the most fantastic information sorting and slicing and dicing machines ever invented in the history of this planet, its going to take some elbow grease and hard work.From both of us.I promise you that I, and your gruppe of four dozen high-end job-scouring professionals here at Ladders.com, will do everything in ou r power to help you.And you need to do yours.That job that I mentioned up above? Its out there. Right now. And in fact, there are probably a couple dozen dream jobs looking for you at the moment.The dicke bretter bohren mssen is this how are we going to find it? It might as well be under a jupe someplace, cause it sure is hidden from our view. How in Hades are we going to find it?There are some 20,000 headhunters out there, and perhaps another 100,000 recruiting specialists in HR departments across the US. How are we going to find which of those 120,000 folks needs you? How are we going to overturn the right rock?Well, thats where we at Ladders.com come in. We go out each week and collect as many rocks as we can for you. From headhunters, from corporate recruiters, from hiring managers themselves.And we bring back all those great $100K-plus rocks, er.. jobs. (And, by the way, we throw out any that dont pay more than $100,000 youre not interested in them and neither are we.)You see, unlike job boards, unlike the local newspaper, unlike the headhunting firms we wont accept money from people looking to hire our great subscribers.Thats because we work for you, the job-seeker. And our goal is to get all those fantastic $100K+ jobs into your hot little hands as quickly as possible. By not charging the employers, we get to see more $100K+ jobs than any other resource on the entire planet.So our job is to go out and collect the rocks. (Almost 5,000 new ones this week alone)Your job, dear Reader, is to look under them.And I cant tell you which rock your dream job is hiding under, so it is going to take that little bit of elbow grease on your part. Youll probably need to look under 100 or more rocks (thats 100 or more applications) to find it.But the sooner, and more thoroughly, you get through this part, the faster youll get to the really good part showing up at your first day in the new office at your great new job.Your team here at Ladders has been in this busines s for the better part of a decade now, and weve seen it all. From our days at HotJobs.com (I was SVP, Finance Operations) to today, weve seen thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people go through the job hunt successfully.So, even on those days when you feel like youll never get another job, that youre too inexperienced or too experienced, youre too specialized or too much of a generalist, youre too eager or youre too laidback about getting your next job, I can tell one thing for certain You will land that next great job.You will succeed.And well be there with you.So get on it, folks.Today. This morning. Right now.Its Monday, the last day of February in 2005, the last day for you to make a great impression on employers in this month of groundhogs and chocolates and Presidents. So lets make it a great one.Have you called that recruiter back? She might have your rock.Have you emailed your old colleague from years back? He could be keeping your rock for you.Have you followed up on those jobs you applied for at Ladders.com last week? Rock, rock, rock. Get looking thereToday is the right time for you to be looking at these jobs folks. Premium people theres a reason we give you a 2-week headstart on the basic folks the sooner you apply to these jobs and get networking your way in, the sooner youre going to land one.So lets get on these today, lets find that rock, lets get you into that next great dream jobAnd lets get there togetherRECRUITERS DISCOVER A SECRET WEAPONWeve been discovered by more and more recruiters here at Ladders.comDave,I have just noticed something quite interesting. I am recruiting for a Business Development Directors standort in Manhattan. I am receiving resumes from several sources. I started refining the list this morning from about 30 to 6 potential candidates. All of the final 6 came through SalesLadder. It looks like you have put together a good service.Doug BatchelorDoug BatchelorOwner General ManagerExpress Personne l ServicesBy the way, folks, we dont actually solicit this feedback from people, you all just seem to write in with such kind, kind things to say about us (Actually, I think Id be pretty depressed if my marketing team *were* writing these testimonials and the best they could come up with is you have put together a good service ??And you know what else is great? We really love it when a subscriber turns around and becomes a job posterI thought MarketingLadder was really great. It put me in spur with more real opportunities than any other jobsite I looked at during my search. I liked it so much, that I am using it now to build the marketing team at my new companyBob EgnerWashington Depot, CTThanks for the rocks, BobAnd yet anotherHi MarcI just wanted to say that salesladder.com is an outstanding service. I recently landed a great Job in the Boston area through SalesLadder. I have been at this job for exactly one month and it has been great, great people, great boss etcI am a Sales Man ager with a regional company. This position has kept me closer to home (less travel) and I will make (at plan) well into six figures.I will be honest and say that I didnt think that internet job searches worked, but Im glad that I stumbled (literally) onto your website. I only had the basic service (because like I said I didnt believe in it) but it really worked.So for anyone out there who is skeptical, it worked for me. ThanksBest regards,Chris Howard, Nahant, MAJust imagine, folks, if Chris had been turning over ALL the rocks in SalesLadder, and two weeks earlier to boot how much quicker would he have landed? Just think how much quicker *you* will get thereThanks again, Readers, and do feel free to hit reply and write on inLadders.COM ON SAN DIEGO AND MIAMI TVFolks, check out our latest segments in our recruiter outreach program heres me on local TV in San Diego and MiamiLANDEDFM.COMA cool new internet resource, Landedfm.com is the first Internet radio Web site venture committed exclusively to mid-career professionals.Were always in favor of new information sources on the internet, and you can listen to my interview with LandedFM here (third item).