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When did you learn the importance of setting goals? For me, it was several years ago, when I worked as a Bilingual Secretary at the African Telecommunications Union (ATU). At some point, the organization decided to recruit a new Secretary-General. On their CVs, the most promising candidates detailed the goals they had achieves, missed or overshoot. Five years later, after …

You set your new year resolutions early this month. How are you doing? Are you still on course or have you given up? Did you know that 80% of people abandon their new year resolutions between the 12th and 19th of January? And out of the remaining 20%, only 8% make it to the finish line. So, if you have …

Which goal did you set in January that you are still struggling to achieve? I don’t know why you are falling off track, but here’s how you can improve things. I recently heard of a woman who tried and failed to lose weight for 13 years. Then she was advised to write a cheque to an organisation she loathed and …

And How to Prevent it From Happening Every year in January, the internet is awash with goal-setting advice and tools. Over the years, I’ve come across and used fantastic ones. However regardless of the tool I used, my challenge would be that at the end of the year, I would compare my goals list and my stack of to-do-list pads …