Step 3: Define the Goals

Good problem-solving starts with an accurate description of the situation. Not with a definition.

If you start defining the problem (for e.g, calling it an “accounting problem” or a “marketing problem”) you define the range of solutions that you will consider.

So, ...

The traditional approach to goal-setting is measured by one thing: the outcome. 

This goal-setting approach is problematic for three reasons:

1. It attaches our self-worth to the outcome of our goal: If we accomplish our goal, we see ourselves as successful; if we d...

The first thing to do before thinking too far ahead in the future is to define what success really means to you. 

Better yet, ask yourself if success is really the end game. If not, what is the end game for you? Happiness, wealth, world peace, self-love? The list goes on.