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Oracle.com slash enhance. This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine.

And I'm Money Expert Nicole Lappin.

On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems.

And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts now.

I bet that as you look ahead at what you want to happen this year, you have goals, you have goals you want to

accomplish, you have things that you are striving for, but you're not sure exactly how to reach

them, or maybe even what goals to set and maybe that's because some

goals fell flat last year or maybe this year just feels too full of mystery so

far.

Today, I'm going to help you set goals

that you can actually reach by avoiding the goals

that will drag you down.

We're gonna talk about the biggest mistake that people make when setting goals.

And to start, I'm going to tell you about the goal that I hear all the time and why I keep telling people to ditch it.

All right, let's start with that.

I was recently talking with the founder of a restaurant company.

It's successful, you've probably heard of it and this person said to me this.

My goal is to be on the cover of entrepreneur magazine. Now I hear this

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