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Smart Goals

Powerful principles of goal setting for effective goals

October 28, 2025July 12, 2015 by Martin Cole
The Clash

In this post I’ll cover some of the key principles of goal setting. But first, a confession, I never used to set much store by goals myself. Maybe it’s because when I played football as a boy I was always a defender. This was at a time when defenders weren’t Fancy Dans spraying passes around … Read more

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