I recently had lunch with a respected business contact and friend. During our conversation about 2012 successes and direction for 2013, we got on the topic of goals.

If you follow business bloggers, authors and speakers, you are familiar with the concept of goals, and how vital they are to getting better personally and professionally. Successful people get that. But my friend said something that struck me. "I don't have goals. Taking action is more important." 

Goals are a stepping stone to taking action, and it got me thinking about why so many people fall short of their goals. If you fail to put a plan in place to reaching them, goals become meaningless, and getting better seems unattainable and overwhelming.

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