The document discusses accomplishing goals through self-motivation, setting SMART goals, and stretch goals. It provides quotes about self-motivated people achieving more satisfaction and success. It also discusses using ambitious stretch goals to spark innovation and productivity, and achieving expertise through continuous improvement rather than assuming limits. The overall theme is accomplishing goals through self-motivation, strategic goal-setting, and pushing past perceived limits.

1. What are we intending to accomplish
today?Getting Better.

2. What are we intending to accomplish
today?Productivity

3. What are we intending to accomplish
today?
“The most meaningful rewards,
with the least wasted effort.”
- Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

4. What are we intending to accomplish
today?Motivation

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today?
“Expending energy trying to motivate people is
largely a waste of time…If you have the right
people on the bus, they will be self-motivated.”
- Jim Collins, Good to Great

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today?

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“People who know how to self-motivate, according
to studies, earn more money than their peers,
report higher levels of happiness, and say they are
more satisfied with their families, jobs, and lives.”
- Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

14. What are we intending to accomplish
today?
What’s your
sentence…?

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today?
“Self-motivation, in other words, is a choice we
make because it is part of something bigger and
more emotionally rewarding than the immediate
task that needs doing.”
- Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

16. What are we intending to accomplish
today?Goal Setting

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today?
S.M.A.R.T. Goals and the
World’s First Bullet Train

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In particular, objectives like SMART goals
often unlock a potential that people don’t
even realize they possess. The reason, in
part, is because goal-setting processes like
the SMART system force people to translate
vague aspirations into concrete plans.
- Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

20. What are we intending to accomplish
today?But…we also need more.

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today?
“Numerous academic studies have examined the
impact of stretch goals, and have consistently
found that forcing people to commit to
ambitious, seemingly out-of-reach objectives can
spark outsized jumps in innovation and
productivity.”
- Charles Duhigg, Smarter, Faster, Better

22. What are we intending to accomplish
today?Expertise

23. What are we intending to accomplish
today?
Selling: the ability to influence, to persuade,
and to change behavior while striking a
balance between what others want and what
you can provide them.
-Daniel H. Pink, To Sell is Human

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today?
In all my years of research, I have found it is
surprisingly rare to get clear evidence in any field
that a person has reached some immutable limit
on performance. Instead, I’ve found that people
more often just give up and stop trying to improve.
- K. Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New
Science of Expertise

25. What are we intending to accomplish
today?
You could have been like Mozart, you
probably just didn’t know it…