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Beginning your Goal Setting Plan

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you
want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting lifetime goals that
gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of
your decision making process.

To help give you a broad, and balanced coverage of all important
areas in your life, try to set goals in some or all of the following
categories:

• Artistic:
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what is it? Do you
want to write a book; paint a masterpiece, or write a song?

• Attitude:
Does your own mindset hold you back from making progress? Is there
any part of the way that you behave that upsets you for example, do
you talk too much? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or
find a solution to the problem.

• Career:
What level do you want to reach in your career? Is it your goal to
be the boss or own your own company someday, or do you want to be
the president of someone else’s company?

• Education:
Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular or some
area of study that you would like to pursue? What information and
skills will you need to achieve these goals?

• Family:
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good
parent? How do you want your partner or family members to see you?

• Financial:
How much do you want to earn by what age in your life? What can you
do to make that come about?

• Physical:
Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want
good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to
achieve this?

• Pleasure:
How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that some of
your life is geared toward making yourself happy for no reason other
than being happy.

• Service:
Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If
so, how?

How to begin to achieve your Goals

Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to
assign a priority to them if you want to succeed.

Then review the goals and re-prioritize until you are satisfied that
they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.

Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the
goals that you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse,
family, or employers want them to be.

Success only happens when you are working for your own well being
because doing it for others will ensure that you sabotage your own
success.

Once you have set your lifetime goals, the best thing that you
can do is set a 25 year plan of smaller goals that you should
complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan.

From there you can just shorten your overall goal spans for example,
you set a 5 year plan, 1 year plan, 6 month plan, and 1 month plan
of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your
lifetime goals.

Each of these should be based on the previous plan. It is the best
way to begin to achieve a lifetime that is filled with and results
in a life without any failed wishes. It results in a life without
regret.

You see, by starting out slowly, you are giving yourself the chance
to realize and work on achieving the goals that you set out to.

Nobody ever succeeds at attaining a goal that was forced through.
Those that tried never really got what they were hoping for. In
rushing through and trying to achieve your goals quickly you will
likely miss a few key aspects that can really change your outcome.

Think of it this way; if you were to run a 10K marathon and decided
to take a cab for half of the journey; have you really achieved that
goal? Would you be satisfied when you crossed the finish line?

It would be a hollow victory that could only provide a moment’s
happiness.

Finally set a daily to do list of the things that you should do
today to work towards your lifetime goals.

At an early stage these goals may be to read books and gather
information on the achievement of your goals. This will help you to
improve the quality and realism of your goal setting and in effect;
make it easier to achieve them.

You also have to review your plans, and make sure that they fit the
way in which you want to live your life.

Once you have decided what your first set of plans will be, keep the
process going by reviewing and updating your to-do list on a daily
basis.

You have to periodically review the longer term plans, and change
them to reflect your changing priorities and experiences in your
life.

To your Success, may you reach your goals.
Gary Killops
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Setting your Goals Effectively

There is a difference in setting your goals and setting them
effectively. Anyone can set a goal, but doing it effectively means
that it will actually get done.
There are so many things that you can do to better your life, but if
you don’t know how to go about it you are stuck.

The following guidelines will help you to set effective goals and
help you manage your time in an efficient manner that will cause
those goals to become reality.

State each goal as a positive statement

Express your goals in a positive way. That is a key component to
setting goals that you can attain.
How often have you been excited to accomplish a goal that didn’t
even sound good when you brought it up? If you are not comfortable
or happy with the goals that you have set, the likelihood of you
succeeding is pretty low.
If you want to express your goals in a positive way, you simply have
to first think of a goal that puts a smile on your face when you
imagine it completed. Why would you want to set a goal that made you
frown, cringe or cry?
When you are beginning to set your goals it helps when you are
talking about them to others in a manner that states your actions as
positives because it will have others seeing it as a positive as
well.
That will garner you a great deal more support. In the end, don’t we
all need a little support when we are trying to do something
positive in our lives?

Be precise

Set a precise goal that includes starting dates, times and amounts
so that you can properly measure your achievement.  If you do
this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can
take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.

Being precise in setting your goals is no more than setting them
with exact details. It is easier this way because then you can
follow a step-by-step format. That’s all there is to it.

Set priorities

When you have several goals, give each a specific priority. This
helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps
to direct your attention to the most important ones and follow each
in succession. Setting priorities will force you into the
step-by-step format above. By doing the most important first and
moving to the least important in succession, you are enabling each
task to be easier than the last. It causes the accomplishment of
each task to get easier and easier which will encourage you to
complete your goal.

Write goals down

This crystallizes your goals and gives them more force. In writing
your goals down, you are better able to keep up with your scheduled
tasks for each accomplishment. It also helps you to remember each
task that needs to be done and allows you to check them off as they
are accomplished.  Basically, you can better keep track of what
you are doing so as not to repeat yourself unnecessarily.

Keep operational goals small

Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and easy to
achieve. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not
making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental
allows you more opportunities for reward. Derive today’s goals from
larger ones. It is a great way to accomplish your goals.

Set performance goals, not outcome goals

You should take care to set goals over which you have as much
control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing
to achieve a personal goal for reasons that are beyond your control.
These could be bad business environments, poor judging, bad weather,
injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal
your performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of
your goals and get satisfaction from achieving them.

Set realistic goals

It is important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of
people (parents, media, and society) can set unrealistic goals for
you which is almost a guarantee of failure. They will often do this
in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions or flat out
disinterest.
Alternatively you may be naïve in setting very high goals. You might
not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite
how many skills you must master to achieve a particular level of
performance. By being realistic you are increasing your chances of
success.

Do not set goals too low

Just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high; do
not set them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid
of failure or where they simply don’t want to do anything.  You
should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate
grasp, but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them. No
one will put serious effort into achieving a goal that they believe
is unattainable.  However, remember that your belief that a
goal is unrealistic may be incorrect. If this could be the case, you
can to change this belief by using imagery effectively.

Achieving your Goals

When you have achieved a goal, you have to take the time to enjoy
the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the
goal achievement, and observe the progress you have made towards
other goals.  If the goal was a significant one, you should
reward yourself appropriately. Think of it like this, why would you
choose to ignore any accomplishments that you have made?  In
doing that, you are downplaying your accomplishment which will
convince you that it wasn’t that important in the first place.

With the experience of having achieved each goal, you should next
review the rest of your goal plans and see them in the following
manner:

• If you achieved the goal too easily, make your next goals harder

• If the goal took a disheartening length of time to achieve, make
the next goals a little easier
• If you learned something that would lead you to change other
goals, do so
• If while achieving the goal you noticed a certain lacking in your
skills, decide which goals to set in order to fix this.

You should keep in mind that failure to meet goals does not matter
as long as you learn from it. Feed lessons learned back into your
goal-setting program.

You must also remember that your goals will change as you mature.
Adjust them regularly to reflect this growth in your personality. If
goals no longer hold any attraction for you let them go. Goal
setting is your servant, not your master. It should bring you real
pleasure, satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

If it stops, there is no longer a point. Let’s look at an example.

The best example of goal setting that you can have is to try setting
your own goals. Set aside two hours to think through your lifetime
goals in each of the categories. Then work back through the 25-year
plan, 5-year plan, 1-year plan, 6-month plan, and a 1-month plan.

Finally draw up a To Do List of jobs to do tomorrow to move towards
your goals. When you do, you will soon realize that you will be on
your way to using your goals setting on a routine basis.

Setting career goals

One of the toughest issues in making a good career choice and career
goal setting is identifying what it is that you want. Even when it
seems that you know what you want, you may still have doubts on if
your career choice is the right one for you.

Reaching clarity in those issues may be the most important thing you
can do in your career planning and goal setting. Here are a few
career goal setting guidelines that can help.

Most people, even very successful ones, have some periods in their
career path when they seem unsure about their career choice and
goals. It is totally human to feel that way.
Often, such periods just come and go. For example, they come when
you face some overwhelming obstacles on your way. It is all over as
soon as you get through these obstacles.

That situation by itself is not a problem of choosing a career, only
a test of your perseverance in seeing it through but what if those
doubts persist, or if they always live somewhere in the background
of your thoughts? If it just does not feel right?

If this is the case, then it is time to look more carefully at your
career choice and overall career objectives.
Often we choose or are placed in a career because it just seems like
the right step to make or that is what your studies have focused on.

The only problem is that sometimes that passion that we once had as
a young adult are now gone, or the realism of the job has taken the
interest and joy out of it.

That is when it is time to set a new career goal or objective.
Choosing the right career goal to sink into requires a great deal of
soul searching. You need to ask yourself these questions beforehand:

•  Am I making the kind of money that I want to make?
•  Do I want to make more money?
•  Does money even matter to me?
•  Do I like what I’m doing right now?
•  What am I passionate about?
•  What could I be doing that would make me happier than I
  am right now?
•  Would I be happier simply switching positions or getting
  a promotion; or would I be happier changing careers all together?
•  Why am I still working here?
•  What is stopping me from leaving this job or getting
  that promotion?
•  What is stopping me from leaving this job?

These are all vital questions that you have to ask yourself before
deciding what your career goals are going to be. If you are honest
with yourself, you will know exactly what direction you should be
going in.

Without being honest with yourself you can’t expect to better your
life, you can only expect to have to ask yourself these questions
all over again until you find happiness.

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Setting Financial Goals

The first step in personal financial planning is learning to control
your day-to-day financial affairs to enable you to do the things
that bring you satisfaction and enjoyment. This is achieved by
planning and following a budget.

The second step in personal financial planning, and the topic of
this section, is choosing and following a course toward achieving
your long-term financial goals.

As with anything else in life, without financial goals and specific
plans for meeting them, you will just drift along and leave our
future to chance. A wise man once said: “Most people don’t plan to
fail; they just fail to plan.”

The end result is the same and it is a failure to reach financial
independence.

The third step in personal financial planning is learning how to
build a financial safety net, which is like to having a retirement
fund for when you are no longer generating any income.

FOUR SIMPLE STEPS FOR SETTING FINANCIAL GOALS

Step 1:
Identify and write down your financial goals, whether they are
saving to send your kids to college or University, buying a new car,
saving for a down payment on a house, going on vacation, paying off
credit card debt, or planning for you and your spouse’s retirement.

Step 2:
Break each financial goal down into several short-term (less than 1
year), medium-term (1 to 3 years) and long-term (5 years or more)
goals; which will make this process easier.

Step 3:
Educate yourself and do your research. Read Money magazine or a book
about investing, or surf the Internet’s investment web sites. Do not
be afraid of the stock market.

Yes, there is a potential for loss, but if you do your research and
get a trustworthy broker, you can ensure your financial future. Just
remember not to put all of your eggs in one basket.

Diversify your portfolio. With a little effort you can learn enough
to make educated decisions that will increase your net worth many
times over. Then identify small, measurable steps you can take to
achieve these goals, and put this action plan to work.

Step 4:
Evaluate your progress as often as needed. Review your progress
monthly, quarterly, or at any other interval you feel comfortable
with, but at least semi-annually, to determine if your program is
working.

If you’re not making a satisfactory amount of progress on a
particular goal, re-evaluate your approach and make changes as
necessary.

There are no hard and fast rules for implementing a financial plan.
The important thing is to at least do something as opposed to
nothing, and to start NOW.

Sometimes when people write down their goals, they discover that
some of the goals are too broad in meaning and nearly impossible to
reach, while others may seem smaller in scope and easier to achieve.

It is okay to dare to dream about riches, but be realistic about
what you can actually do. A good idea is to break your goals down
into three separate categories of time.

One more thing to remember: by placing a time frame on your goals
you are motivating yourself to get started and helping to allow you
the chance to succeed. Just remember that you can adjust the time
frame whenever you want to.

Long-term goals (over 5 years) are those things that won’t happen
overnight, no matter how hard you work to achieve them.

They make take a long time to accomplish (hence the reason they are
called long term goals), so give yourself a reasonable amount of
time, that are based on your best estimates of what it will take to
achieve them.

Examples of long-term goals might include college education for a
child, retirement plan or purchasing a home. Whatever the case,
these goals generally require longer commitments and often more
money in the end.

Intermediate-term goals (1-5 years) are the type of goals
that can’t be executed overnight but might not take many years to
accomplish. Examples might include purchasing or  replacing a
car, getting an education or certification, or paying off your debts
like credit cards etc. (depending on the amount).

Short-term goals (within one year) generally take one year or
less to achieve, based on the date the task is needed, the total
estimated cost, and the required savings.
What are your goals? To find out, you need to make up a list, decide
which timeline your goal fits into, detail the steps necessary to
achieve your goals, then take action toward reaching those goals.
It’s that simple.
You might be wondering where to start when deciding how to go about
to start your financial goals. These are some basic tips to help you
in making the best choices for you.

After looking at these tips, it is best for you to go out and do
some research to find the method(s) that suit you best.

• Begin by taking 5%-10% out of each pay check and put it
  in a savings account.
• Look into different investment strategies such as IRA’s,
  stocks, RRSP’s, mutual Funds, personal investments etc. There are
  many more and all can assist you in short and long term goals.
• Start making a budget for yourself that leaves you with some
  extra money and follow it.
• Use your coupons that is why they are there. It seems like
  small savings, but add together you could save 20-30 dollars at
  each trip to the market.
• Shop around for bargains.
• Do not live outside of your means.
• Work with a credit counselor to get help in lowering your
  monthly expenses and get rid of your debt.

These are just some of the things that you can do when beginning
to realize your financial goals. Of course, you also have to follow
the steps in the above sections on how to successfully set goals.

The steps to setting goals successfully don’t change, only the
methods that you use to go about it. By that I mean; when it is
career wise, work to get noticed; for relationships, work on
maintaining your intimacy or getting it back; in financial matters,
work to save and invest money etc. It really is that easy.

To your Success, may you reach your goals.
Gary Killops
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Get Motivated To Achieve your Goals

How could I write a guide to setting and achieving goals if I didn’t
actually give you a few tips on the most important part of setting
goals?

The key to successful goal setting is your ability to motivate
yourself and stay motivated until you have achieved your goals.

Getting and staying motivated is not as difficult as it may seem. It
just takes discipline. Let’s look at the thing that you should do in
order to get and stay motivated.

First, let’s take a look at what motivation really is.

Motivation is not a product of outside influence; it is a natural
product of your desire to achieve something and your belief that you
are capable of doing it.

Positive goals that are geared toward your pleasure are much more
powerful motivators than negative ones that are based on fear. The
right combination of both is the most powerful and motivating mix.

Now let’s look at what you can actually do to motivate yourself and
stay that way.

1. Start with visualizing your future success and model the
   feelings you’ll experience when you achieve it.
2. Mentally walk the path towards this success and base your
   feelings at different milestones on the way.
3. Assign a high priority to each task that you must achieve
   which will give each task a priority in your mind.
4. Set a target for the amount of work you will do each day
   toward your goals.
5. Visualize the desired outcome: Create a picture of what the
   desired outcome will look like, and have this vision in your mind
   at all times.
6. Set milestones of the things you like to do and the things
   that you are good at.
7. Use visual indicators to monitor progress and complete the
   task.
8. Give yourself affirmations to remind yourself of how capable
   you are at reaching your goals.
9. Watch movies that motivate you.
10. Listen to music that motivates you.
11. If you work better with competition, make a deal with a friend
    or family member to compete for the goal for example who gets
    there first! It can be hypothetical and doesn’t necessarily have
    to be for real.
12. Get help and support from people around you or from a
    professional in the field for example a personal trainer, finance
    manager etc.
13. Define your own version of success, don’t let others define
    success for you.
14. Ignore any negative influences or responses to your efforts.
15. Make a conscious effort to do better than you have ever done
    in the past.
16. Focus on the positive achievements and not the negatives.
17. Share your successes with others as this will keep you focused
    and help you voice your accomplishments which will realize your
    achievements for you.
18. Acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses and work on them
    both.
19. Train yourself to finish what you start by refusing to quit
    until you are done.
20. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and don’t punish yourself for
    making them.

To your Success, may you reach your goals.
Gary Killops
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Increasing Time Management Skills for Achieving Goals

Effective goal setting begins and ends with time management. You
must be able to balance your time in the best way possible in order
to achieve your goals. Most of us fail to achieve goals because we
“lack the time”. That is why this section needed to be included in
this guide.

The concept of time management has been in existence for more than
100 year believe it or not. Unfortunately the term “Time management”
creates a false impression of what a person is able to do.

Time can’t be managed, time is uncontrollable and we can only manage
ourselves and our use of time. That is all that can be done. Time
management is actually self management.

For effective time management we need the ability to plan, delegate,
organize, direct and control every aspect of our lives just to find
30 minutes a day that is devoted to something productive that is
just for us.

In order for a time management process to work it is important to
know what aspects of our personal management need to be improved.
Otherwise what is the point in trying?

Below you will find some of the most frequent reasons for reducing
effectiveness in and around our lives. You might want to check the
ones which are causing to be the major obstacles to your own time
management. These are referred to as your time stealers.

Identifying your time stealers:

• Interruptions for example the telephone or TV (these are also
  distractions)
• Interruptions, for example, guests
• Meetings
• Tasks you should have had someone else do for you
• Procrastination and indecision
• Acting with out total information
• Dealing with other people’s issues or problems
• Some sort of personal crisis, for example, family member is
  sick or injured
• Unclear communication
• Inadequate knowledge
• Unclear objectives and priorities
• Lack of planning
• Stress, anxiety and fatigue
• Inability to say “No” to anybody with a request
• Personal disorganization

There are quite a few isn’t there? Fortunately there are
strategies you can use to manage your time in a better way and be
more in control and reduce stress, but you can analyze your time and
see how you may be both the cause and the solution to your time
challenges.

Below, we will look at time management issues in more detail

1. Shifting priorities and crisis management.
Management guru Peter Drucker says that “crisis management is
actually the form of management preferred by most managers.” What is
ironic is that actions taken before the crisis could have prevented
it in the first place.

2. The telephone.
Have you ever had one of those days when you just had to answer the
phone with “grand central station, how can I help you?” The
telephone can be our greatest communication tool can be our biggest
enemy to effectiveness if you don’t know how to control its hold
over you.

3. Lack of priorities / objectives.
This is probably the biggest and most important time waster. It
affects all we do both professionally and personally. Those who
accomplish the most in a day know exactly what they want to
accomplish beforehand, just ask Donald Trump.

Unfortunately too many of us think that goals and objectives are
yearly things and not daily considerations. These results in too
much time spent on the minor things and not on the things which are
important to our lives.

4. Attempting too much.
Many people today feel that they have to accomplish everything
yesterday and don’t give themselves enough time to do things
properly. This leads only to half finished projects and no feeling
of achievement as all things are done in a hurry and appear rushed
to others.

5. Drop in visitors.
The five deadliest words that rob your time are “Have you got a
minute?” Everyone does it; colleagues, the boss, your peers, and
your family and friends.
Knowing how to deal with interruptions is one of the best skills you
can learn.

6. Ineffective delegation.
Good delegation is considered a key skill in both managers and
leaders of homes and work.

The best managers have an ability to delegate work to staff and
family members to ensure it is done correctly. This is probably the
best way of building a team’s moral and reducing your own workload
at the same time.

The general rule is this; if one of your people around you can do it
80% as well as you can, and then delegate it.

7. Procrastination.
The biggest thief of time is not decision making but decision
avoidance. By reducing the amount of procrastinating you do you can
substantially increase the amount of active time available to you.

8. The inability to say “no!”
The general rule is; if people can dump their work or problems on to
your shoulders they will do it.

Some of the most stressed people around lack the skill to ‘just say
no’ for fear of upsetting people. Get over it because these people
can do it for you.

9. Meetings.
Studies have shown that the average professional person spends about
17 hours a week in meetings and about 6 hours in the planning time
and untold hours in the follow up.
There are many ways we can manage our time.

To your Success, may you reach your goals.
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Managing Stress for Goal Achievement

Stress management wouldn’t seem like something that would be a part
of setting goals but it could be the difference between you
achieving them and not achieving them.

There is positive stress and negative stress. Positive stress adds
anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a
certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions, confrontations,
and even our frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment to
our lives.

Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it
and how to use it to help you achieve your goals. Insufficient
stress acts as a depressant and may leave you feeling bored or
dejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave you feeling
all mixed up inside.

What you need to do is find the optimal level of stress which will
individually motivate but not overwhelm each of us.

How Can I Tell what is Optimal Stress for Me?

There is no single level of stress that is optimal for every person.
We are all individual creatures with unique requirements. As such,
what is distressing to one may be a joy to another.

And even when we agree that a particular event is distressing, we
are likely to differ in our physiological and psychological
responses to it. That’s just human nature.

The person who loves to arbitrate disputes and moves from job site
to job site would be stressed in a job that was stable and routine,
whereas the person who thrives under stable conditions would very
likely be stressed on a job where duties were highly varied.

Also, our personal stress requirements and the amount which we can
tolerate before we become distressed changes with our ages. It has
been found that most illnesses are related to unrelieved stress; for
example, anxiety disorders, bowel disorders etc.

If you are experiencing stress symptoms, you have gone beyond your
optimal stress level; you need to reduce the stress in your life
and/or improve your ability to manage it.

Stress symptoms include, but are not limited to:

• Hair falling out
• Anxiety attacks
• Headaches
• Fatigue
• Loss of appetite
• Increase of appetite

How Can I Manage Stress Better?
Identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our
lives is not sufficient for reducing its harmful effects. Just as
there are many sources of stress, there are many possibilities for
its management.

However, all require work in order to be effective. Changing the
source of stress and/or changing your reaction to it. So you might
be wondering how do you do it? Let me show you.

1. Become aware of your stressors and your emotional and physical
reactions.

• Notice your stress and its beginnings. Don’t ignore it. Don’t
  gloss over your problems.
• Determine what events stress you out. How much do these events
  mean to you?
• Determine how your body responds to the stress. Do you become
  nervous or physically upset? If so, in what specific ways?

2. Recognize what you can change.

• Can you change your stressors by avoiding or eliminating them
  completely?
• Can you reduce their intensity over time?
• Can you shorten your exposure to stress by taking a break, or
  leaving the physical premises?
• Can you devote the time and energy necessary to making a
  change (goal setting, time management techniques, and delayed
  gratification strategies may be helpful here)?

3. Reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions to stress.

The stress reaction is triggered by your perception of danger and/or
fears physical danger or emotional danger, and fears of failure etc.

• Are you viewing your stressors in exaggerated terms and/or
  taking a difficult situation and making it a disaster?
• Are you expecting to please everyone because I’m telling you
  that you can’t?
• Are you overreacting and viewing things as absolutely critical
  and urgent all the time? Do you feel you must always come out the
  winner in every situation?
• Work at adopting more moderate views; try to see the stress as
  something you can cope with rather than something that overpowers
  you.
• Try to temper your excess emotions. Put the situation in
  perspective. Do not labor on the negative aspects of everything
  find a positive in them if you can.
• Take personal time to evaluate your surroundings clearly.
• Take a deep breath when overly stressed and count backwards
  from 10.
• Exercise a little bit or take a walk daily

4. Build your physical reserves.

• Eat well-balanced, nutritious meals.
• Maintain your ideal weight or appearance.
• Avoid nicotine, excessive caffeine, and alcohol.
• Mix leisure with work. Take breaks and get away when you can.
• Get enough sleep. Be as consistent with your sleep schedule as
  possible.

5. Maintain your emotional reserves.

• Develop some mutually supportive friendships/relationships.
• Pursue realistic goals which are meaningful to you, rather
  than goals others have for you that you do not share because they
  won’t succeed.
• Expect some frustrations, failures, and sorrows and let them
  go.
• Always be kind and gentle with yourself be your own best
  friend.

To your Success, may you reach your goals.
Gary Killops
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