I read recently a neat definition of success. (I believe this was in 48 Days, but recently wasn’t last week, so forgive me if I’m crediting it incorrectly.) Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile goals. Progressive – As in you don’t get there all at once. It takes time, it takes small steps, it [...]
Categories: Small Change
Tagged: goals, small steps, success
Had a lot of goals for the year, so how’s it going so far? Well, just based on my reading, knitting was my big topic for the first quarter this year. And I did a lot of reading! But also a lot of doing. Not that I have the pictures to prove it. I could [...]
Categories: Life,Mild Motorcycling,Quilts and Other Crafts
Tagged: goals, knitting, motorcycle
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
on November experiment: Scheduling myself for strategic success
