<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/Robert-Luckadoo.JPG" width="145" height="134" alt="Robert Luckadoo - motivational speaker and author" class="alignleft" />At the beginning of each year, we all start with high aspirations and a lofty list of <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/goals/goals_main.html" title="Goal Setting Tips">goals</a>.  Whether our objective is a promotion to district manager or an increase in sales by 5 percent per quarter over last year, on January 1 our sights are focused with laser-like intensity on our visions of greatness.  But then, by January 10, a couple of curve-balls are likely to come from out of nowhere, and suddenly we’re down 0-2 in the count only ten days into the new year.   <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2015/03/the-difference-between-being-good-and-being-great-how-quickly-you-get-back-on-track/" title="Permanent Link: The Difference Between Being Good and Being Great? How Quickly You Get Back on Track!" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2471,"date":"2015-03-24T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:11:11","slug":"the-difference-between-being-good-and-being-great-how-quickly-you-get-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2015\/03\/the-difference-between-being-good-and-being-great-how-quickly-you-get-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Being Good and Being Great? How Quickly You Get Back on Track!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/Robert-Luckadoo.JPG\" width=\"145\" height=\"134\" alt=\"Robert Luckadoo - motivational speaker and author\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>At the beginning of each year, we all start with high aspirations and a lofty list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/goals\/goals_main.html\" title=\"Goal Setting Tips\">goals<\/a>.  Whether our objective is a promotion to district manager or an increase in sales by 5 percent per quarter over last year, on January 1 our sights are focused with laser-like intensity on our visions of greatness.  But then, by January 10, a couple of curve-balls are likely to come from out of nowhere, and suddenly we\u2019re down 0-2 in the count only ten days into the new year.   <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2015\/03\/the-difference-between-being-good-and-being-great-how-quickly-you-get-back-on-track\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Difference Between Being Good and Being Great? How Quickly You Get Back on Track!\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}