Before we can know how to attack our goals, we first have to understand the two kinds of goals that hoard our daily focus and efforts. They are: benchmarks and deadlines. They both are peppered with to-do lists, meltdowns and all nighters, but the former is personally defined whereas the latter is externally defined. Some Benchmark Goals ...
Passions Are For Amateurs. Goals Are For Losers.
Uh oh. By the title alone we better buckle up and make sure our seat backs and tray table are in the upright and locked position. Sometimes I read things that are so good I want to punch myself in the face. This articletriggered one of those times. Why the metaphoric self-mutilation when I like things ...
Sex(Y) Sells
I’ve been putting a lot of thought into Little Bets, lately. That terminology is based on Peter Sims’ book by the same title. The book was a wallop and changed the way I looked at my goals entirely. Many more people preach about how useful baby steps, incremental change, minimum viable product, and failing fast are... So ...
CSI: TED Talks – What Derek Sivers Was Really Saying
The Problem About once every other day someone sends me Derek Sivers’ short TED Talk: Keep Your Goals To Yourself, telling me something to the effect of, “See, I don’t have to make my goals public! What do you think about that?” And now in Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your ...
Prove Me Wrong
Accomplishing a goal is hard. It means you have to find something worthy of committing to. It means you have to do the research and the work to push against the mental (and possibly physical) walls that confine you. It means that you have to sacrifice. It means that you have to travel down a road without necessarily knowing ...