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Personal Goals

Why You Haven't Accomplished Your Big Goal

Deirdre Maloney | Posted 04.23.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Success, Leadership, Careers, Fear, Achieving Goals, Deirdre Maloney, Goals, Personal Growth, Personal Best, Personal Development, Self-Improvement, Success and Motivation, Personal Goals, Self-Help, Healthy Living News
Deirdre Maloney

The reality stung for a moment. But then... I felt liberated. After all, if I couldn't be the best runner around, then I could just focus on being the best runner I could be. Knowing and accepting I'd never be the best at it actually made me free.

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Why I'm Resolute Against Resolutions

Erin McHugh | Posted 03.04.2013 | Fifty
Read More: 26 Acts, New Year, Resolutions, One Good Deed, Setting Goals, New Year's Resolution, Personal Goals, Fifty News
Erin McHugh

A few words about resolutions. I'm suspicious of them. I put them in the same category as diets: in the main, they're doomed from the start, complete with a hefty chaser of guilt and self-recrimination.

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WATCH: 6 Lessons Oprah Learned From The World's Biggest Dreamers

Posted 11.05.2012 | OWN
Read More: Jennifer Hudson, Oprah, Oprah's Lifeclass, Own-Video, Dream Big, Video, Oprah Winfrey, Life Goals, Oprah Lifeclass, Goal, Paula Deen, Personal Goals, Dreamers, Joel Osteen, Goals, OWN News

Do you have the courage to go after your most impossible dream? Oprah says if the road to what you want isn't difficult, then you aren't dreaming big ...

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Do You Measure Up?

Ronna Benjamin | Posted 12.23.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Moral Compass, Ronna-Benjamin, Better After 50, Am I Good Enough, Recycling, Empty Nesters, Sailing, Sacrifice, Morals, Empty Nest, Personal Goals, Boomers, Protest, Identity, Fifty News
Ronna Benjamin

I made a mental list of some of the ways I have failed: I believe in recycling, but every once in a while I throw paper in the blue trash bin instead of the green. I believe in returning the shopping cart to its metal cage in the lot, except when I am in a really, really, big hurry.

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Are You Ready and Willing to Play the Money Game?

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 11.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Personal Goal Setting, Debt, Saving for Retirement, Money, Make More Money, Money Plan, Making Money, Money Planning, Money Management, Personal Goals, Retirement Planning, Home News
Jinny Ditzler

One of most folks' biggest goals is to reach the stage in life when you no longer have to work in order to pay the bills. The earlier you begin planning seriously to achieve this goal, the more quickly you'll reach it -- and the more money you'll have when you do.

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Celebrating the Drive

Zach Veach | Posted 11.17.2012 | Teen
Read More: Learning to Drive, Distracted Driving, Milestones, Drivers Licenses, Personal Goals, Life Milestones, Teen News
Zach Veach

Learning to drive is something that I think many of us take for granted. But taking the step in life to learn to drive is a major milestone and should never be treated lightly!

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5 Steps to Have More Money Now

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 10.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Personal Goal Setting, Personal Goals, Money Plan, Making Money, Money Planning, Make More Money, Money, Money Management, Home News
Jinny Ditzler

I've been ruthless (but kind) when it comes to getting money that's owed to us. If you put your attention on making and finding money, you'll think of plenty you can do.

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Set A Personal Goal And Run With It

Bant Breen | Posted 08.10.2011 | Healthy Living
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Bant Breen

I am not one who normally embraces personal challenges like running a marathon. Marathon running is a cliché goal, right up there with climbing a big mountain or sailing around something. But I am buying into the cliché.

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Overrated: Following Your Dreams

Christine Egan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Ambition, Dreams, Cynicism, Aspirations, Wishes, Personal Goals, Goals, Happiness, Hopes, Follow Your Dreams, Comedy News
Christine Egan

You can do anything you put your mind to! If anyone tells you that, they're either lying or stupid, or both. Sure, the idea sounds nice in theory....

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What I Learned Running The New York City Marathon

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Calories, New York City Marathon, Water, Hangovers, Personal Goals, Marathons, Brother Jimmy's, The Marathon, New York City, Dogs, Ex-Boyfriend, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

It's hard to run if your leg is gushing blood all over the place and hurting you. Also, the blood makes the ground slippery, and other runners will get mad at you, no matter how hard you try to explain that really, it's that jerk dog's fault.

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