People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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Related When my agent called me and told me there was a chance for me to come (to Sacramento), I was overwhe... BONZI WELLS The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give ... DAVE BRAT Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to ... ROBERT POZEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Swimming with the dolphins is one of the things most people have on their lists to do at some time i... BILLY HURLEY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL This is my first cook-off. Actually, the people at the track have been really good to me ... I reall... RICHARD M. NIXON Among my most successful clients lie a handful of critical steps that kept them on track, and kept t... LEAH ARNOLD Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON Training hard was not just going to the track at 3:30 and running hard. It was going to bed at the r... A.J. ELLISON I am excited to have Burt join the Utah volleyball staff. Our team has high goals in the Mountain We... BETH LAUNIERE The processing speed alone is a dramatic piece of this performance pack release. We have clients who... ASHLEY ELLINGTON This is a very big accomplishment. It's going to be an invaluable experience for her to play with to... BETH LAUNIERE They are setting their goals high and working hard to reach those goals. GREG FOREMAN I want to talk about the responsibility that comes with the opportunity to study at the University o... CHARLES OGLETREE As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set... LISA LESLIE I just see some of the things I can pull off as far as trying to wiggle through a hole or trying to ... BERNARD POLLARD Walter told me as long as I kept scoring goals and kept up my level of performance I had nothing to ... LEE MILLER The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them... P. J. O'ROURKE We're just trying to reach our goals right now. It feels like we're on the right track. We had a ver... COURTNEY PRICE This game will help us stay focused. We need this game to help us stay on track with what we are try... STACY PHILLIPS Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time. DAVID VISCOTT I am a huge fan of lists (I actually make lists of the lists that I need to make). AMBER SMITH We have lists that are having baby lists at this point; they're spawning faster than rabbits. TIMOTHY SPARAPANI Our cars were fast at Daytona, but we needed reliability. This test also enabled us to try a variety... 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RUI FARIAS Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL They got a couple of lucky goals. The ball bounced their way, [and] they got two easy goals. BRIAN VOELKER There might be possibilities for people to get on the tenure track but, then, for a period of time, ... GERTRUDE FRASER I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a ... ANNE SWEENEY My girls are still running strong. They seem to just get better and better. The girls want to set th... CECIL BURCH We came out with good intensity, but could not seem to get goals out of good possessions. Our defens... CINDY TIMCHAL I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books ... PATRICIA HEATON When I step on the field I still have to play with a level of pride and we want to walk away No. 1 a... ISRAEL IDONIJE Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter, ... Th... STEPHEN BENNETT The three blasts were carried out by at least four people. The identity of the people has more or le... K.K. PAUL Le Mans runs on a longer track with 48 cars. At Daytona, with more cars and shorter run, drivers are... TOMMY ARCHER The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contai... DAVID VISCOTT Consistency and routine can play an important role in reaching your goals. Be consistent in how you ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To have some fun and learn a little bit about track and running and find some success so everybody f... DICK SIEVERT Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i... WENDY MASS At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of yo... CARL LEWIS We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things. ANDREW JONES If it wasn't for bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all. We've become good friends. He came to m... DORSEY LEVENS The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba... FRANCES FARMER The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end o... JONATHAN HAIDT I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. CHARLES VAN DOREN There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software devel... CURT SCHILLING This explains the long waiting lists. BILL SHAW At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go p... AL YANKOVIC To give up a shorthanded goal at that point was just devastating. I made a bad pass on that one and ... DARIN OLVER Having lived it and been around people who have lived it, you understand what it takes to get to thi... JIM STACK I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger... RICHARD FLANAGAN We're trying to get the routine to look the best it can and trying to get all the little things that... CINDY CLOUGH For me, when I get to the venue and have the people and the audience, my performance boosts up. I sk... SASHA COHEN He is talking about his proven track record as whip, his experience at the leadership table, and his... BURSON TAYLOR I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST One of my goals is to get the Battlefield promotion, ... So it is on my mind, but I'm trying not to ... CHRIS COUCH I got a head of steam going when I picked his pass off and went the other way, ... It was just nice ... ERIC STAAL My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dat... REBA MCENTIRE I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my ... HEIDI KLUM We're just trying to get people to stay longer and enjoy their vacation. BOB WHITELAW We have lists that are having baby lists at this point; they're spawning faster than rabbits. If we ... TIMOTHY SPARAPANI It's so hard. Everyone's trying to stay positive, but the reality is we need more than seven to play... ESHAYA MURPHY My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the... CRAIG THOMPSON The kids wrote down their goals, and a lot of them wrote that they want to place in the top three at... BRAD TODD If something was worth writing down, it was worth writing down in full. And she had a horror of list... JINCY WILLETT People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO We're expecting Jim to be a leader on the track and off the track. ERIC MURRAY When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sport... ERIC SWALWELL I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm go... KASKADE Many people give up their dreams and goals in life when they are overwhelmed by the amount of effort... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off. KARL MALONE Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I ... ASAFA POWELL Your off-track relationship with your team and co-driver is as important as what you do at the track... GUY SMITH We aren't looking at redesigning the track. We are looking at making the track more racy. CHRIS BROWNING The goals of the class are to get kids to look carefully at things. HOLLY GARDNER Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer ... MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR You've got different parts of the agreement going back and wanting banks to play referee in this gam... ALI MALEKZADEH The company's goals are just that -- goals. No professional is going to risk lives and his career to... FRANK LARKIN Things are a bit different this year in that it's not just about weight loss, we have people here wh... DEBORAH HUTTON All the demographics are in these (lists). You just get hold of a list of the numbers you want . . .... JACK ROESER A few times we lost the momentum again, with penalties. This is a team with a lot of offense up fron... SAKU KOIVU I tried to get head-and-head with Hip Hop before that fence, but he left me a little bit and my hors... JODY PETTY I was proud of the kids. We still got a lot of work to do because we are not taking care of the resp... DAVID HUGHES I felt like I played one of my better games in the series. Even though three goals went in, I felt t... BRYAN BRIDGES Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on ... RASHEED OGUNLARU All of them have a real good shot at winning matches and getting to the state level. Hopefully, they... CHANCE VANGUNDY I would wrap up all the other seven titles and place this one ahead of all of them. Last year was my... COLIN MONTGOMERIE Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. JASPER FFORDE People downloaded it a lot in the beginning to create their play lists and then didn't do much after... JULIE WEBER People downloaded it a lot in the beginning to create their play lists and then didn't do much after... JULIE WEBER
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