1st Quarter of 2018 ― Are you Progressing or Procrastinating?

As 2018 glides effortlessly towards its 1st Quarter, we must begin, before it becomes too late, to take stock of our ambitions, aspirations, and goals or if you may, our New Year Resolutions!

I hereby propose a progressive yet SMARTER goal-setting process, going forward.

• Specific - This will hold you accountable to the very goals you established. Include a focused commitment to your action points by beginning to align your strategies immediately after scanning the prevailing environment. This guarantees a symbiotic relationship is achieved.
• Measurable - What you cannot measure you cannot manage and therefore change. The measure may be quantitative or qualitative, but must be measured against a standard of performance and a standard of expectation. What is your Yardstick?
• Attainable – We must appreciate that setting goals is a delicate balance between reaching a success that is too easy or too hard. Progress towards attaining your goals, requires a keen consideration of available resources within your disposable.
• Relevant – Your goals must be relevant towards advancement of your vision and mission in life. This enables you to stay on course on what is important through prioritizing. Have you identified or discovered your Mission or Purpose?
• Time Specific – A timeline or date should be included as a vital part of your goal. Being time-specific helps you to measure your progress along the path of reaching your goals. It can also increase your chances of success as you are able to develop a doable action plan, inclusive of setting objectives and strategies towards reaching your goal.
• Evaluate – Remember that your goals are not cast on stone and will change from time to time. Constantly evaluating your goals is essential to reaching them. During evaluation, change factors must be identified and taken into consideration;
• Revise – Immediately after evaluation, you should re-do the goals that need changing by objectively identifying specific areas of improvement and the steps that are necessary to guarantee progress as you continue the SMARTER goal-setting process.

Here are my best 30 Quotes that continue to evoke tonnes of inspiration, as we press on towards living a fulfilled, selfLESS, fruitFULL and impactFULL life in 2018 & beyond:-

1) "My best lesson, is that movement, however minute it appears, is your key, if not your secret, to any progress in life." ―JohnG. Theuri.

2) "Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try." ― Joyce Meyer.

3) “Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.”― Rikki Rogers.

4) "Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress." ―Ted Levitt.

5) "Two things define you: Your Patience when you have Nothing and your Attitude when you have Everything." ― Unknown.

6) “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

7) "There is nothing permanent except change." ― Heraclitus.

8) "If you cannot empower 100 young people, then empower just ONE in your lifetime." ―JohnG. Theuri.

9) "I hope that in 2018, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something." ― Neil Gaiman.

10) “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” ― Norman Schwarzkopf.

11) “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”― Albert Einstein.

12) “ReaderSHIP & LeaderSHIP are ultimately inseparable.” ―JohnG. Theuri.

13) “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”― Abraham Lin coln.

14) “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu.

15) "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." ― Dalai Lama.

16) “Just implement it however simple it is, because some of the simplest ideas are most often the BEST ideas” ― JohnG. Theuri.

17) "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." – William Pollard.

18) "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." —Lao Tzu.

19) "Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid." -Albert Einstein.

20) “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.

21) "When everything (everyone) seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." ―Henry Ford.

22) "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."- Mahatma Gandhi.

23) "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." ― Nelson Mandela.

24) "I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." ― Alexander the Great.

25) "Every new dawn reminds me that, becoming more impactFULL & ValuABLE holds the Key to achieving true success." ―JohnG. Theuri.

26) "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." ― Rev. Desmond Tutu.

27) "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." ―Albert Einstein.

28) "Judge a leader by their level of servitude, not their level of privilege." ―Amy Ranger.

29) "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."- Diogenes.

30) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." ―Walter Bagehot.

As March 2018 beckons, our life begins to change the moment we take full responsibility for everything that is happening or not happening to us!

Best Wishes…