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Chris Christoff

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Australia

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https://www.chrislchristoff.com/

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Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction

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Chris Christoff, B.Eng (Elec), MBA, MAIPM, AFIML

My mission now is to help others who struggle with setting and achieving goals, and need techniques that fit their personalities and lifestyles.

When it came to goal setting I had a problem. Being a shy person I spent a lot of time on personal development. I would sit in these weekend conferences with 1000s of others. Wealthy people on the stage talking about setting goals. They said work out what you want, visualise it, put a timeframe on the goal and go for it.

What, that’s it? How do I do that? I was running IT projects. In a project you know the outcome, the steps, and have a good idea of the timeframe. How do I set goals if I couldn’t see the path to get there? How can I set a timeframe if Chris Christoff, B.Eng (Elec), MBA, MAIPM, AFIML

My mission now is to help others who struggle with setting and achieving goals, and need techniques that fit their personalities and lifestyles.

When it came to goal setting I had a problem. Being a shy person I spent a lot of time on personal development. I would sit in these weekend conferences with 1000s of others. Wealthy people on the stage talking about setting goals. They said work out what you want, visualise it, put a timeframe on the goal and go for it.

What, that’s it? How do I do that? I was running IT projects. In a project you know the outcome, the steps, and have a good idea of the timeframe. How do I set goals if I couldn’t see the path to get there? How can I set a timeframe if I didn’t know the steps required? The "traditional" methods didn't work for me.

I pursued IT career goals, quickly into managing teams, then IT departments in organisations. Lots of goals, lots of projects. Some failures, in IT we call it downtime.

My wife and I also got into property. Our first house was a fixer-upper (bikies (bikers) live in it and repaired their motocycles in the lounge room. In the big 1974 flood the water went up to the roof). We made up the path as we went, set goals for each part of the house, from a general idea of the final goal. We set goals, renovated, had two kids, and tripled our money on that house.

We bought and sold a few more. Made money, lost money.

I got into property development as an investor and project manager. On one phase of a project I made $500k in 14 months.

I have been an engineer, IT manager, IT contractor, venues technical specialist (for G20 and ASEAN Summit), renovator, investor, project manager, property coach, and achievement coach.

I am here today as a result of the frustrations in setting goals and realising the way I did it, and then writing a book.

My mission now is to help others who struggle with setting and achieving goals, and need techniques that fit their personalities and lifestyles. ...more

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Chris Christoff's Blog: You Can Set Goals

Goal setting Myth #18

Goal setting Myth #18
I don’t need a mentor, coach or advisor

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There are always some activities that you are not so good at, or don’t know about. Outsourcing those parts, while focusing on your strengths, can help you accelerate your progress, avoid mistakes and obstacles, avoid problems, keep you on track and motivated, and open doors for you. Even Richard Branson, Warren Buffet and Mark Zuckerberg Read more of this blog post »

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