Tag: goals
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Week 21: Goal, aim or target – what’s the difference and why does it even matter?
I’ve been giving career guidance sessions now for ten years. During that time, one thing that has been consistent is the lack of agreed definition with regards to the words we use about career progression. Some people say goals, others use aims, some even use targets. Because they’re all the same anyway right, and really,…
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Week 20: ”I think therefore I could be”: all goals start in the mind.
Ten years ago, I was teaching philosophy to 17 year olds. One group in particular had been kind of written off as low achieving, and were only in my class to fill their timetable. There were four of them (students, not classes.) And me? I have no degree in philosophy, and knew nothing about it…
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Week 15: Having a problem reaching your goal? Why refocusing is the key.
What happens when we see danger ahead on the path towards our goal? Generally, we don’t like to feel like we have failed. Or perhaps worse still, feel like others see us as a failure. Goal setting is often used as a way of making us feel we are becoming better, more improved in some…
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