Sentences with phrase «without specific goals»

Mistake Number One: Not Setting Goals Many business blogs are started without specific goals.

Because I'm also naturally optimistic, I'd spend long afternoons indulging in day - dreams of some long - off future; without any specific goal in mind, but rest assured that these day dreams involved my prince charming coming to rescue me on his white royal horse.

Without a specific goal like this, you won't do the necessary things it takes to achieve it.»

In my artistic practice, I tend to work quite intuitively without a specific goal in mind.

Not exact matches

Companies that enshrine specific financial goals tend to do worse than those without any mission statement; those that express a commitment to their communities excel.

The authors propose the adoption of specific measures and approaches, such as regulatory sandboxes, self - regulatory organizations, and crossborder financial technology cooperation agreements, that would help policymakers achieve regulatory goals without undue impediment to innovation.

Setting extremely short - term and specific (yet simple) goals allows the mind to focus on one thing at a time without distraction.

These are laudable goals — though unrealistic without specific plans for how to achieve them!

Without clear goals, we don't have anything specific we're working towards, making it easier to lose interest because of the ambiguity and general lack of direction.

To become a Learning Lab, the applying district is asked to set out five to seven specific procurement goals, or to outline goals that it feels would be too hard to try to achieve without outside help.

Comment: Despite a range of attempts within the party itself and by the party in government I fear that it is now clear that without specific, binding changes to bring about equal access for women to the top jobs in business and politics we will not be able to achieve these fundamental goals any time soon.

The governor's bill is shorter and vaguer, outlining broad goals without specific demands on how to reach those goals.

The agency continued paying for advertising during that time period «without any analysis of specific goals or modification of outreach efforts,» DiNapoli's audit found.

Without more specific detail about your personal goals and challenges, I can not give you any personal advice, but I hope that the general principle I am trying to get across is clear: «Life is what you make of it.»

A life without goals that are specific, measureable, attainable, related to our vision and timed will ultimately lead to disappointment.

From large group exercise in the 80s to personal training in the 90s meant to get more specific and direct answers to clients» questions, back to big boot camps and group training that focus on fast movements and Workout Of the Day (WOD), or posts to social media that list a series of exercises that you should do without every asking what your goals and status are and that suppose every one of us is the same.

In order for the GAPS diet to be effective for its original purpose: detox, nourish, and heal the gut as a means to correct a debilitating, life altering medical condition, it had to use specific foods to accomplish that goal without fail.

A personal trainer's goal is to help their clients achieve specific fitness goals effectively, efficiently, and without injury.

While this is very rarely the goal with weight training, there ARE people who actually DO want to reduce the size of a specific muscle or muscles (but without just stopping training and losing too much strength).

In order to truly help you heal and become healthier, a naturopathic doctor's goal is to find out what is causing the condition you present with and treat the cause, not prescribe a supplement for a specific symptom without asking why that symptom is there in the first place.

The 30 Minute Workout — A high intensity, high - efficiency workout designed with the client's specific needs and goals in mind to get results in less time... just like an hour T.V. show without the commercial breaks!

It might help if you set a specific goal: «I want to be able to lift the bags of dog food without anyone's help,» or, «I want to run for 20 minutes without stopping.»

New Year's resolutions are oh so hard and fail so often because they're too many miles without a map — too many lofty dreams and generic goals without broken down, specific points to get there.

We also suggest being specific about your interests and goals without making your profile look like a novel — it's a balance.

The analyses «yielded support for the efficacy of combining specific hard goals with feedback versus specific hard goals without feedback.»

Some students come in with specific school - related or personal projects to work on, he explains, and program managers also have a long list of starter projects to help students who visit the centers without a particular goal in mind.

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

Pope and Golub (2000) have suggested several guiding principles specific to English teacher preparation for instructional technology integration, including (a) introducing different technologies that support both instructional and pedagogical goals; (b) reinforcing that teachers should know how to effectively model the use of technologies to their students; (c) addressing how to evaluate technologies for instructional purposes; and (d) encouraging reflection and evaluation on instruction with and without technologies.

It goes without saying that a primary goal of new college - and career - readiness standards — including both Common Core and the state - specific standards being implemented in non-Common Core states — is to improve the content and quality of teachers» instruction.

Kerry Wilkinson, author of the three - book Jessica Daniel series of detective novels, apparently wrote his first book more to prove to himself that he could do it and without a specific publishing goal in mind.

Android 4.0 marks a major shift in the way the operating system works as the goal is to minimize fragmentation across devices while also providing a universal approach to app development, with apps and hardware developed around 4.0 expected to seamlessly scale from the current mobile phone and tablet hardware templates into the goal of a universal platform that can allow for apps to work across devices without the need to code for specific devices.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

Without taking specific action, your nebulous goal to «pay down debt» won't turn out well.

Saving just to save might sound good in theory, but without specific money - saving goals and the ability to track your progress, you can easily lose momentum.

Does WiseBanyan requires clients to set up target dates and target amounts for their goal (s) or is it more general where clients can just deposit / invest their money and let it grow without having a specific target date or target amount?

Once you have identified specific goals for leaving assets to others, planning can help to make sure your wishes are fulfilled privately and without unnecessary taxes, costs, delays, or disputes.

-- where the goal is to get another player to do something specific like turn a toy car upside down without saying a word.

«If your goal is to collect miles, this is a way to collect miles without committing to a specific airline.

I guess it goes without saying that Cities: Skylines is profitable and I'm sure our publisher Paradox Interactive has had specific sales goals.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Our goal is to make all kinds of games without limiting ourselves to a specific genre or platform.

@Brian > Of course, you must read «the stretch goals only apply to the books from this specific campaign», without the interrogation mark (typing error:P).

You can bypass the timers by spending in - game premium currency, which is acquired by achieving specific goals, like taking down an enemy without receiving damage.

General Introduction Two Main Goals Identifying Patterns in Time Series Data Systematic pattern and random noise Two general aspects of time series patterns Trend Analysis Analysis of Seasonality ARIMA (Box & Jenkins) and Autocorrelations General Introduction Two Common Processes ARIMA Methodology Identification Phase Parameter Estimation Evaluation of the Model Interrupted Time Series Exponential Smoothing General Introduction Simple Exponential Smoothing Choosing the Best Value for Parameter a (alpha) Indices of Lack of Fit (Error) Seasonal and Non-seasonal Models With or Without Trend Seasonal Decomposition (Census I) General Introduction Computations X-11 Census method II seasonal adjustment Seasonal Adjustment: Basic Ideas and Terms The Census II Method Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Specific Description of all Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Distributed Lags Analysis General Purpose General Model Almon Distributed Lag Single Spectrum (Fourier) Analysis Cross-spectrum Analysis General Introduction Basic Notation and Principles Results for Each Variable The Cross-periodogram, Cross-density, Quadrature - density, and Cross-amplitude Squared Coherency, Gain, and Phase Shift How the Example Data were Created Spectrum Analysis — Basic Notations and Principles Frequency and Period The General Structural Model A Simple Example Periodogram The Problem of Leakage Padding the Time Series Tapering Data Windows and Spectral Density Estimates Preparing the Data for Analysis Results when no Periodicity in the Series Exists Fast Fourier Transformations General Introduction Computation of FFT in Time Series

More than 17,000 customers across the country have taught us how to lead the way through a competitive marketing landscape without losing sight of your firm's specific goals.

The West Point and the McMaster / York studies did use live lectures, and the goals of each study were specific: Put very broadly, one studied overall performance in an actual live - lecture course in conditions with or without laptop as naturally used by the student, or tablet as a medium for class resource material; and the other looked at comprehension of material in a simulated, scripted single lecture in conditions of multi-tasking or spillover effects of laptop use during class.

Depending on the circumstances and the specific goals of the employer, the most cost effective strategy to deal with an incompetent employee might be to immediately dismiss the employee without cause and provide the employee with a severance package.

Please note that these sample titles indicate the professional's job goals without getting too specific.

Thats because diversity strategies tend to lay out lofty goals without providing the structures to educate senior executives in the specific challenges faced by various constituencies.

There was no road - map of any kind and it seemed to me we would just have these long talks without trying to achieve a specific goal.