Goals are helpful. We get things done when we have them. And the side effect? By having a “to-do”, we automatically have a million “not do”s. Goals provide focus. Instead of starting a new project every time I walk into my craft room, my goals last year helped me finish the ones I’d started. This [...]
Categories: Small Change
So … goals for last year were met, unmet, changed, reconsidered, cursed – you name it. I did get all the books on my list read for the year. And am so happy to be back to our regularly random reading. I didn’t get all the quilts on my list done for the year. And [...]
Categories: Life,Small Change
I’m relatively undisciplined. That’s not to say I don’t have a kick-butt work ethic. Just that I am by nature rather random and easily pulled off course. Not to mention extremely focused to where I lose track of time and just how could I have spent the past three hours on that? Since I’m trying [...]
Categories: Idea Hamsters Anonymous
Tagged: experiment, focus, goals, how I work, schedule, small change, work
We’re what, five days into the new year and I’m already seeing a big mistake I have made in setting goals. Argh. Every goal and challenge I set for myself was related to personal stuff. Hobbies. The things I do for fun. When you’re stretching yourself to read a certain list of books, every other [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: 2011 challenge, balance, frustration, goals
When I was a kid, my playtime was all about imagination. I was creating a fort in the bushes with my brother or taking Barbie on amazing adventures with my neighbor. Time not out running around was spent with my friends Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Encyclopedia Brown, Ramona and Misty romping around the world. Coloring [...]
Categories: On the Home Front
Tagged: goals, kevin carroll, red rubber ball
on November experiment: Scheduling myself for strategic success
