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The Right Tool For The....Goal?

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Making sure you have the right tools for the job are always important. My son recently had a birthday and we bought him a basketball hoop. Needless to say, it needs to be assembled. Prior to going to work on it, I looked at the picture to see what it should look like when done (goal) and then looked at the tools needed for assembly. My next step was to make sure that I had the necessary tools in order to reach the goal of a basketball hoop that you could actually shoot on! After setting my goals for 2016, I began reading about and understanding how certain tools can help you work towards and stay on track towards achieving your goals. I have also found that there are more tools available on the web than one needs so the trick is finding the one(s) that work best for you. I have tried some that did not work and set them aside and have found others that are a good fit for me. Here are some of the examples of what I am using to support achieving some of my 2016 goals: Goal : Run 100

Goal Setting: Hitting the Target

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The week of Thanksgiving was always a great week growing up in Wisconsin. There is the obvious reason of all the great food on Thanksgiving Day and there was also being around family and the Dallas Cowboys football game! It was also deer hunting season in Wisconsin which led me to our cabin for a few days of hitting the woods in search of the elusive whitetail. On the occasion that one would pass by, I always seemed to have trouble hitting my target. It also made it tougher when they were moving. A moving target is always going to be more difficult to hit, maybe the only thing harder would be no target at all. Unless having no target is easier because....wait, back on point. At work we have targets or goals that we are trying to reach and we spend a lot of time thinking about them and monitoring them. The past few months I have been thinking about my personal goals. Some of those goals include: health, financial, experiences, and more! As I was reflecting on them, I realized that I d