Improve Yourself: The Final Report!
We made it! Today represents the official end to the Improve Yourself! 2010 challenge, but we still have a winner to select…
If you started with us back in the Announcement Post, you are eligible for the grand prize of a $100 Amazon gift card. Of course, I know who has been reporting in each week, and I have to say that they’ll have a definite advantage in making the finals.
Regardless, I’d love to hear from everyone to see how they did with their SMART goals. And this is your last chance to make an appearance and not be counted among those that quit!
What Do You Need to Do Now?
It’s simple. In the comments below, please give a brief summary of what you accomplished during this 8-week challenge, how it compares to your initial goals and what it has meant to you and your marriage.
That’s all there is to it. Just be sure to leave your comment before Tuesday, March 2nd at 11:59 p.m. central time.
Improve Yourself! Week 8: Don’t Accept Mediocrity!
Wow! We are now entering the FINAL week of the Improve Yourself! challenge. I am excited that you are still reading this series, and I hope you are closer to reaching your goals now than you were seven weeks ago.
A Peek Ahead
This will be the last giveaway week before we crown an overall winner who will walk away with a $100 gift card from Amazon. So, this week you’ll just give the typical update about your progress over the past week.
Next Sunday (February 28th), you will each provide a summary of what you accomplished during the full 8-week challenge. Based on those summaries and my own impressions throughout the competition, I will pick the top three contenders from the group and ask them to share their story in a special post a few days later. We will all then vote for the top story and those votes will determine the overall winner. Then comes the glory and the cash…now back to this week!
Improve Yourself! Week 7: Communicate for Success
Welcome to week 7 of the challenge, and Happy Valentine’s Day! This week I want to focus on just how important communication is to success in all areas of our lives. Let’s see if I can communicate my thoughts effectively… 
Think About Your Areas of Success
When I take some time to reflect on my life and identify areas where I have been successful, I can quickly see that good communication is a key to success. In my career as a consulting engineer, it’s not math or even reason that sets apart the best engineers and companies. Nope, it’s the ability to convey complex ideas in understandable terms both in person and in written form.
Engaged Marriage has a lot of growing to do to meet my goals for this site and its reach to married couples throughout the world. However, I think it’s fair to say that our first 5+ months here have been quite successful. Obviously, the content is critical for the success of any blog.
Improve Yourself! Week 6: Stick With It!
Here we are entering the sixth week of this 8-week challenge, and I am proud of you for reading this. I am particularly proud if you are an original member of the Improve Yourself! group, and you have not given up on yourself or your goals.
Don’t Quit!
Do you know what 26/64 represents? For one, it represents about 40%. It also represents that only 26 people checked in with their results in Week 5 even though 64 folks originally signed on and committed themselves for the 8-week challenge.
I am not at all surprised by this ratio, but I am disappointed. Those 38 “drop-outs” had awesome goals and a lot of energy. Unfortunately, for many of them, the end of 2010 will look a lot like the end of 2009 with unfilled promises to themselves and some repetitive New Year’s resolutions.
Take a few minutes and give some thought to the SMART Goals you declared in Week 1. Are those goals worthy? Do you still want to accomplish them? Are you still willing to put in the work and sacrifice needed to make it happen NOW?
Improve Yourself! Week 5: Don’t Be Perfect, Be Remarkable!
As we enter week 5 of this challenge, I am willing to bet that you have lost any illusion of perfection in meeting your goals that you may have had at that start. I know I have stumbled along personally, and progress hasn’t been as steady and smooth as I had hoped. However, I know that I am still on the road to…
Be Remarkable!
This week’s book giveaway is centered around a fantastic idea that I have tried to apply to all areas of my own life. You do not need to be perfect, you simply need to be remarkable in what you do. That’s what
So, just what does it mean to be “remarkable”? The back cover of the book gives some great examples:
Remarkable is being unafraid to stand out.
Remarkable is failing often and then trying again.
Remarkable is having a fire in your belly and an idea that won’t quit.
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