#goals

3 Steps on how to Set your Business #goals for 2019
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3 Steps on How to Setup Your Business Goals for 2019sourceSince we just broke through a brand new year I’m going to share with you the system I use to set up business goals. This is a method I’ve used for more than five years now, and it has continuously helped me achieve each one of my goals. The nice thing about this system is that it’s extremely simple.One of my personal goals for 2019 is to become more transparent with what I’m working on — and this article is the start of doing just that! Keep in mind that this is all merely my personal experience on the topic and if you have something you’d like to add or if you’d like to discuss your own experiences, feel free to share.Step 1: Find the major constraintThere is a theory called the Theory of Constraints (TOC), invented by Eliyahu M. (...)

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Setting #goals? All you have to do is point . . .
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Setting goals? All you have to do is point . . .Babe Ruth’s “called shot”There is an old grainy image that I love. Babe Ruth pointing to the bleachers right before hitting a home run in the 1932 world series. You’ve likely seen or at least heard of this. Why does this particular home run still stand out 85 years later? The simple reason is because the Bambino pointed before hitting the ball. The image is iconic due to the power of setting then achieving a goal.Every modern organization is divided into teams. A team is defined as a group of two or more people working together to achieve a goal. Working towards a goal is an intrinsic part of our professional structure. So why then are we so bad at setting and achieving goals?Before I’m heckled for being unnecessarily cynical I can back this up (...)

#project-management #goal-setting #project-management-tool #project-manager

Driving Drives #productivity
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Wondering what’s stopping you from accomplishing your tasks. This could be it.The EncounterDo you drive? Have you ever noticed that sometimes it would have taken longer than you estimated? Can you list down a few reasons? Traffic, you might blurt out immediately, but that could not just be it. Usually, you estimate your travel time by taking the traffic into account, Now that we have google maps that cannot be an exception. What else could it be? I didn’t know either until the day when…I was driving to #work, The roads were not so crowded the traffic was bearable, the signals were mostly green. I thought I was already having my luckiest day. On reaching my destination, I still found that it took more than I estimated. I was shocked but determined to find out what went wrong.Though I usually (...)

#task-management #goals #procrastination

The #fifa Fever and the #aws Bill Nightmare
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The entire world is raving about FIFA world cup, and Mr. Dev is caught up in a nail-biting football match trying to keep up with the AWS bill…in his dreams.Well, he missed seeing the huge monthly bill coming…”AGAIN” for the Nth time, but not for real! We just hope it isn’t for real when he wakes up!Do you also dread confronting a huge AWS cloud bill and obsessively monitor the entire infrastructure, day in, day out, even in your dreams?It need not be! Just choose the right tools for the job.If you have any interesting cloud stories, do share them. We would love to hear.Originally published at blog.totalcloud.io on July 9, 2018.The FIFA Fever and the AWS Bill Nightmare was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to (...)

#cloud-computing #goals #aws-cost-management

The most definitive way for successfully forming habits
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Stephen King, the author of over 54 novels, commits to #writing two thousand words a day.“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words… On some days those ten pages come easily; I’m up and out and doing errands by eleven-thirty in the morning…More frequently, as I grow older, I find myself eating lunch at my desk and finishing the day’s work around one-thirty in the afternoon. Sometimes, when the words come hard, I’m still fiddling around at teatime. Either way is fine with me, but only under dire circumstances do I allow myself to shut down before I get my 2,000 words.”This is a typical example of the daily practice at play. Of course, committing to writing two thousand words a day and doing it consistently won’t ensure you and I become as good or as successful as Stephen King (...)

#life-lessons #goals #self-improvement #habit-building

The secret behind Sheldon Cooper’s intelligence
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Every hour of every day of my #life is quite meticulously planned. I come close to Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory when it comes to following a pre-planned routine — although mine are far different from his Thai takeout night and Halo night.One of my favourite dialogues from The Dark Knight is when the Joker says, “You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even when the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I told the press that, like, a gang-banger would get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everybody loses their minds!”It articulates so clearly the fact that we experience a change in our natural state of mind when we encounter (...)

#life-lessons #self-improvement #happiness #goals

“Employees transferred funds to fake accounts, sometimes triggering charges for customers. [...] This widespread practice gave the employees credit for opening the new accounts, allowing them to earn additional compensation and to meet the bank’s sales goals.”

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#bank #incentives #stakhanov #bonus #goals