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How to Make Progress in the Achievement of Your Goals

One of the things I continually see in my role as a Success Coach is a lack of clarity and focus in how people approach goal setting and achievement.

Do any of these sound familiar?

- You're not sure what you really want, so there are no meaningful goals for you to achieve.

- You're overwhelmed with all the goals you'd like to accomplish and unsure of where to begin. So, you don't take any action and none of your goals get achieved.

- You have goals, but find yourself dividing your actions randomly among all of them, working on the ones that seem most appealing to you at the time. Thus, you hardly make a dent in achieving any of your goals.

All of these situations are quite frustrating.

I'd like to share a simple and effective focusing strategy that has helped me and many of my clients make progress in the achievement of our goals.

At the beginning of each calendar quarter (January, April, July, October) choose 3 goals to focus on. If you don't know specifically what you want, you can choose 3 general areas to work on, such as "Health," "Finances," "Family," "Career," etc.

Then ask yourself the following question:

"What needs to happen in the next 90 days for me to feel happy with my progress with each of these goals?"

In answering this question I've found it helpful to take an "under promise and over deliver" approach. The last thing you want to do is bite off more than you can chew, feeling frustrated and disappointed when the 90 days is over. In other words, I'm encouraging you to set realistic expectations, then work hard to surpass them!

As each quarter ends evaluate what you've accomplished. Then follow the same strategy outlined above for the next 90 days.

I suggest you take a moment right now to schedule a reminder into your calendar so that you can experiment with this approach starting at the beginning of the next calendar quarter.

I believe you'll find this method to be quite helpful in creating momentum and keeping you focused on the achievement of your goals.

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About Kim Smith

Kim Smith has been a full-time Life Success Coach since 1997. Combining a burning desire for continued personal growth, with an unwavering search for purpose and meaning, Kim has dedicated himself to helping others live more passionate lives.

His knowledge, expertise, and experience in the areas of goal setting and personal achievement allow him to help his clients accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Kim's contagious, upbeat attitude makes it easy for those he works with to begin to realize their true potential. His style is positive, outgoing, warm and caring.

Kim holds the Vision that everyone can tap into their unlimited capacity for personal growth and achievement to live a happier more fulfilling life. His Mission as a Coach is to help others harness the power of their own minds, and use that power to design and live truly extraordinary lives.

Kim has worked in a variety of different careers during the past 20 years. His experiences include: the start up and daily operation of three small businesses; Sales; Management; Corporate Training; Customer Service; and Manufacturing and Design.

In 1992, Kim came upon a "crossroads" in his life, feeling empty, unfulfilled and yearning for more. Finding motivation and encouragement in the works of Anthony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy and many others, he was inspired to return to school to study the psychology of human behavior. He received his Masters degree in Guidance and Counseling in 1995. Soon after he discovered "Coaching" and immediately knew that this was the path he should follow. He became introduced to the work of Robert Stuberg in 1998 and began being personally coached by Robert Stuberg in 1999. Kim continues Master's level Coaching with Robert and has become one of the founding Coaches at Success Systems International.

Kim is constantly seeking to expand his training and coaching credentials on an ongoing basis. As a graduate of the "Coach Training Program," at prestigious Coach University, he has coached CEO's, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Athletes from around the world, including Australia, Belgium, and London.

Some of the characteristics that make Kim's approach to coaching unique are:

* He works only with a very limited number of clients who are serious about taking their lives to the next level.

* He is consistently happy, upbeat and positive.

* He is exceptionally well versed and educated in the field of personal success and achievement, spending the last 10 years studying, implementing, and refining the principles of success and happiness (which includes reading more than 200 books focused on Happiness, Success, Spirituality, Psychology, Finance and Personal Achievement).

* He knows how to truly listen.

* He has applied what he has learned to make tremendous changes in his own life, "walking his talk" and "practicing what he preaches."

* He incorporates fun and humor into his life and work.

Kim is an avid runner and marathoner, and often describes Coaching as "personal training for the mind." When he's not coaching, running, or playing basketball, he can be found reading up on the psychology of personal achievement and success.

He shares his life with his wife, Christine, and their two Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers, Kayla and Maggie.