sethgodin.typepad.com - 1/27/2009
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Doing goal setting with friends and colleagues is always motivating and invigorating for me. You hear things ranging from, "I want to help this village get out of poverty," or "I want to double our market share," or "I want to be financially independent."What you rarely hear is, "I don't want to ...
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Setting Goals with Seth Godin
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... Longtime power TypePad blogger Seth Godin has this to say today about setting goals: "It's not stupid to have a stated goal of starting several ventures
that will fail, or asking three stupid questions a week, or posting a
blog post that the world disagrees with. If you don't have goals like
this, how exactly are you going to luck into being remarkable?" What helps you make your blogging goals? Are you aiming to post more often, to a specific topic, or to reach a new audience? ...
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And why the hell not, eh? From Seth Godin:
It’s not stupid to have a stated goal of starting several ventures that will fail, or asking three stupid questions a week, or posting a blog post that the world disagrees with. If you don’t have goals like this, how exactly are you going to luck into being remarkable?
It reminds me of an old favourite that adorns one of my living room walls:
He is not wise, who has not tried the ugly and the bad; for then there ...
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