I was cleaning today and I found a notepad that I had
written down several goals early last year. I was as ambitious as I was unsuccessful. In this project I am attempting to resolve
some of the mistakes I made so that I will be more successful with my goal
setting. I am trying to do a few things
with this blog.
First, I want to document my efforts in focusing my energy
on a relatively few projects while. I
want to have a contemporaneous record of what is working and what is not that I
can review and improve on in the future.
Second, I want to use this blog to hold myself accountable on the
progress I am making. With the goal of
posting twice a week, it will be evident by the number of posts I make each
week. With the Chinese goal, it will
provide a chance at a weekly self-assessment of how I am proceeding towards the
goal. Third, I want to use it as a way
to improve my writing. I have not pulled
out my copy of Elements of Style yet,
but hopefully over the course of this writing I will. Finally, I want to use it as a jumping off
point to think about personal development.
I need to be carful that I don’t use this final reason as a means of
procrastination, but I think it will be worth while to learn about ways people
have stuck to their personal development projects.
In that vane, prior to writing this post I looked at a blog
post on goal setting. I Looked at http://michaelhyatt.com/goal-setting.html
as focus as I started to write this post. It actually looks like I did do a half-way
decent job of setting my goals, but I should not have necessarily shared
them. Oops. Overall, I’m pretty happy with how the first
week of the project has gone.
My next post, I plan on doing some writing on my goals with
the Chinese language. Until next time!
