Blog about Leadership » Dustin Wax http://www.leadershipjot.com LeadershipJot.com about thoughts, suggestions, and tips to improve leadership. Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:11:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Achieve Success in a New Year http://www.leadershipjot.com/2008/01/05/achieve-success-in-a-new-year/ http://www.leadershipjot.com/2008/01/05/achieve-success-in-a-new-year/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:27:09 +0000 Jonathan Frye http://www.leadershipjot.com/2008/01/05/achieve-success-in-a-new-year/ Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were great and were spent with those who matter most – family. A lot of people are going to set goals (resolutions) for the next year and I do believe the beginning of a new year is an excellent time for self-evaluation. You don’t necessarily have to highly critical, but everyone has weaknesses and strengths; the better you understand and deal with those, the better you will be able to achieve your desired success.

Dustin Wax wrote an excellent post at LifeHack.org for 8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008. Specifically, there were two parts in the post that I really enjoyed:

  1. The SMART acronym which is credited to George Doran is an excellent breakdown for developing goals. In short, you should set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevent, and Time-bound.
  2. The step to “accept failure graciously” is, as readers of my blog know, a pertinent point.

 Failure and Success

I wrote an article on October 9th titled 3 Steps for How to Respond to Failure. The article has been widely read for the topic (and the 2nd most popular page on this blog). Failure is a significant topic for a lot of people. I would dare to say that very few people achieve anything of great significance without some set-backs and, most likely, were able to succeed in the end for how the person responded to the failures.

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