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Episode 1: 5 Key Strategies to Successfully Achieve Your Career and Personal Goals in 2024: Overcoming Common Obstacles

Title: 5 Key Strategies to Successfully Achieve Your Career and Personal Goals in 2024: Overcoming Common Obstacles 


 Season: 4, Episode 1

Host: Lona Small, Laboratory Coach and Consultant

   - Many people struggle to achieve their goals despite having good intentions.

   - Goals often get left behind due to life's distractions.

   - Importance of understanding why goals are unmet and strategies to overcome these challenges

 

5 Reasons You Do Not Achieve Your Goals and strategies to overcome them

 

1. Setting Means vs. End Goals:

   - Means Goals:The steps thought necessary to achieve the end goal.

   - End Goals:The ultimate experience or achievement desired.

   - Tip: Focus on the end goal and align your means goals with it.

 

2. Alignment with Personal Values:

   - Goals not aligned with personal values are harder to achieve.

   - Understanding and setting goals that reflect personal values is crucial.

3. Belief in Achievability

   - Doubts about competence and confidence can hinder goal achievement.

   - Strategies include the reverse gap method (reflecting on past accomplishments) and the courage framework (action, competence, confidence loop).

 

4. Identity and Goals:

   - Aligning identity with goals is vital.

   - Books recommended: "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks and "The Alter Ego Effect" by Todd Herman.

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear

   - Building an identity that resonates with the goals set is important for success.

 

6. Supportive Environment:

   - Surrounding oneself with a positive and supportive environment is key.

   - Reducing distractions and temptations can aid in goal achievement.

 

Recommendations:

- Podcast episodes for further learning:

eLABorate Topics podcast:

  - Season 3, Episode 17 :An effective way to set career goals that you will be excited to keep  

- Season 2, Episode 7: Using Core Values to decide on your Next- Level career opportunity- Books for deeper insight: 

  - "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks.

  - "The Alter Ego Effect" by Todd Herman.

 

Conclusion:

- Lona Small emphasizes the importance of setting realistic and personally aligned goals, believing in one's ability to achieve them, and creating a conducive environment for success.

- Encouragement to start with small goals, seek support if needed, and continuously reassess and align goals with one's identity and values.


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You can reach Lona Small directly at lonasmall@lonasmall.com 
 You can also catch Lona on LinkedIn under Lona Gordon Small and follow hashtag #YouAreAnEqualPartOfTheWhole.


 
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Tywauna "Coach Tee" Wilson is an accomplished medical laboratory leader, author of "Some Leaders Wear Lab Coats," and co-host of the "eLABorate Topics" podcast. As founder and president of Trendy Elite Coaching and Consulting, she develops best-in-class leaders through coaching programs and leadership training. With two decades of experience, including as a lab manager and technical director, Tywauna leverages her clinical expertise to mentor laboratory professionals. Through Trendy Elite's Standout Leader Academy and her own initiatives, she empowers professionals to enhance their leadership skills, expand their influence, and excel in their careers. Tywauna is committed to guiding the next generation of confident, competent laboratory leaders
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