By setting goals you are taking control of your life.

通过确定目标，你正在把握你的人生。

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Start by setting goals with your boss, agree on measurements, and determine when he or she wants feedback.

从与你的上司订定目标开端，约定评测标准，并确认你的上司甚么时间想得到反馈。

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By setting goals, you focus your attention on a target which, in turn, focuses your mind on finding ways to get there.

通过设定目标，你把注意力集中到一个目标上，这个目标反过来使你集中思想去找到达到目标的方法。

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"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

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By setting those as goals a lot of the other management issues work themselves out.

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This question was addressed in a large-scale project by Gretchen Rubin who tried to increase her happiness over the course of a year by setting herself specific goals that covered, among other areas, marriage, work, leisure, parenthood, friendship, money and so on.

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Travis Zajac was the key for New Jersey against the Panthers, setting up second-period goals by Patrik Elias and David Clarkson to back Brodeur's 17-save performance.

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