Comments on: Changing Our Goals Everyday: An Exercise in Daily Personal Evolution

By: health_wellness_tips

health_wellness_tips — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:29:11 +0000

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By: health_wellness_tips

health_wellness_tips — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:29:11 +0000

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By: George Kao

George Kao — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:35:30 +0000

Clay, another well written and potentially life-changing post! Timeless wisdom shared here.

Reminds me of 3 resources I've found helpful and others here may want to check out:

1. "Goal-Free Living"

http://bit.ly/GoalFree

2. The Artist's Way "Morning Pages" could be applied to goal-writing to make goal setting a more creative (and artistic) process!
http://www.theartistsway.com/tools/the-basic-tools

3. Mark Forster's Autofocus System
http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-system

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:13:34 +0000

Great post, goals are absolutely necessary to accomplish your dreams.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:47:01 +0000

Ok, it just clicked when you used the Digg analogy! Now I get it. So one day I might add something silly that I don’t really care about, but if I TRULY don’t care about it, then it won’t stay on my goals list for long. I think you’re totally right on about that!

I’ve thought about this a bunch with regard to my “mission statement”. For awhile I felt chained to parts of it even if when they didn’t always resonate with me, but I recently realized that it’s actually OK to make changes to it. The parts that really matter will continue to matter and I’ll continue to use them as a guidepost in my daily decisions.

By: Clay Collins

Clay Collins — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:41:43 +0000

@Laurie: So, regarding this:

“I’d worry that I might be tempted to add things that aren’t that important to me, making the goal less realistic or less honest.”

These are the very reasons why I wanted to revise my goals every day. Do you know how Digg works? It’s kind of like that. The goals (or elements of goals) that can stand my daily scrutiny get to stay and the ones that don’t feel authentic get cut. The goals have to stand the test of time.

As for being unrealistic, I think it’s ok. If I have an unrealistic goal that says for a week or a month, and that seems to resonate with me every day, then I keep it, hold it in my mind, and try to think about how to make it real. About two months ago having a lifestyle where I didn’t have to physically be anywhere, where I had unlimited mobility, seemed really unrealistic. But that’s my reality now.

What got me thinking about this was the section on “dreamlining” in Timothy Ferriss’s book, the Four Hour Work Week.

I’m really jazzed that you liked the post .

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:18:23 +0000

This is a great one and one that really speaks to me right now. I love the idea of “growing” our goals– it’s obviously good to persevere and not just wishy-washily change our focus because things get too hard, but it’s also really easy to lose touch with our goals over time. I love the way you described that and I think it’s something that people don’t talk much about. I’ll have to experiment with this and see if it works for me, though– every day sounds like a lot! I’d worry that I might be tempted to add things that aren’t that important to me, making the goal less realistic or less honest. Do you struggle with that?