I love the way you’ve captured the message of this post, Joyce. Goals without the right level of motivation and intensity of need will never work, no matter how many tools we have at our disposal.

Thank you Marquita. It’s the same in business. We need to know our Big Why to keep us motivated and moving forward when things aren’t working out the way we expected them to. Definitely not a step to skip when it comes to personal goals.

It is said that a team is as strong as the weakest link, Reba. All the more reason to tap into the talents of the team for the right task and delegate effectively. Maslow’s Pyramid is as relevant today as it was when he first published it and we can learn a lot from it about our motivation to achieve the goal – no matter what it takes.

I do love Maslow, Susan. 🙂 Mindset is important for goal achievement in any area of life but it’s what motivates us that determines success or failure. Quite often a failure in 1 goal isn’t because we didn’t work hard on it but there was another goal or need that needed to be fulfilled in priority. I have an entire chapter in my book that assesses the motivation for fulfilling specific needs before even thinking of SMART Goals.