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]]> By: Sherri http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/05/how-to-choose-goals-and-ensure-success/#comment-1025 Sherri Sat, 30 May 2009 01:36:48 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=1736#comment-1025 Hi Stephen, Thanks for your comment. Keeping your short term goals to a number that is doable and manageable is a great point. It doesn't matter how easy they are sometimes just seeing a huge number of things to do is too big of a mental hurdle to overcome and we do nothing. Next actionable items are definitely important for me I can't stress that enough. Like you say break it down so fine that you can't help but do something. :) Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your comment. Keeping your short term goals to a number that is doable and manageable is a great point. It doesn’t matter how easy they are sometimes just seeing a huge number of things to do is too big of a mental hurdle to overcome and we do nothing. Next actionable items are definitely important for me I can’t stress that enough. Like you say break it down so fine that you can’t help but do something. :)

]]> By: Stephen - Rat Race Trap http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/05/how-to-choose-goals-and-ensure-success/#comment-1016 Stephen - Rat Race Trap Fri, 29 May 2009 12:37:00 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=1736#comment-1016 Sherri, this is great advice. I really like your "Overlap" idea. My best advice to people is to limit the shorter term goals to no more than three. You can have you other ones on a list somewhere but I wouldn't have them on an active list. Too many goals is a lesson I have learned hard multiple times. The point about doing something is soooo important. If you have trouble getting started chunk it down to something smaller. Keep chunking until it gets small enough you can practically fall forward and do something toward your goal. Momentum is everything. I think I read something once about holding your goals loosely. I really liked that. It's not about quitting, it's about growing or changing. Keep up the great work! <abbr><em>Stephen - Rat Race Trap’s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRatRaceTrap/~3/tlACRb5Av9o/energize-your-success-%E2%80%93-use-the-right-fuel.html" rel="nofollow">Energize Your Success – Use The Right Fuel</a></abbr></em> Sherri, this is great advice. I really like your “Overlap” idea.

My best advice to people is to limit the shorter term goals to no more than three. You can have you other ones on a list somewhere but I wouldn’t have them on an active list. Too many goals is a lesson I have learned hard multiple times.

The point about doing something is soooo important. If you have trouble getting started chunk it down to something smaller. Keep chunking until it gets small enough you can practically fall forward and do something toward your goal. Momentum is everything.

I think I read something once about holding your goals loosely. I really liked that. It’s not about quitting, it’s about growing or changing.

Keep up the great work!

Stephen – Rat Race Trap’s last blog post..Energize Your Success – Use The Right Fuel

]]> By: Sherri http://www.serenejourney.com/2009/05/how-to-choose-goals-and-ensure-success/#comment-1014 Sherri Fri, 29 May 2009 01:36:49 +0000 http://www.serenejourney.com/?p=1736#comment-1014 @ Laurie - Thanks I'm glad you liked it. That's the thing with goals is we get attached to them and if we lose interest or our direction changes we feel like we've failed by ditching it. I think it's a good thing to try something and not succeed than to have never tried it in the first place and always wonder "what if?". You certainly should give yourself permission to change course if something isn't working for you, life's too short! @ Laurie – Thanks I’m glad you liked it. That’s the thing with goals is we get attached to them and if we lose interest or our direction changes we feel like we’ve failed by ditching it. I think it’s a good thing to try something and not succeed than to have never tried it in the first place and always wonder “what if?”. You certainly should give yourself permission to change course if something isn’t working for you, life’s too short!

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