Tag: goal-setting

  • Why I Ditched My Long-term Goals (and simplified my life)

    We’ve all heard the expert advice: if you truly want to get ahead in life, you have to have goals. Long-term ones. Goals that you write down, spend time visualizing, and have a plan for working towards. And then there’s me. I’ve tried the goal-setting thing. I really have. Time after time, year after year,…

  • Setting goals

    You may have already heard me say this (multiple times), but I am not the most organized person in the world. It’s actually one of the reasons I like deadlines so much: they tend to get me focused and make me super productive. Without a deadline, however, I’m rather like the proverbial ship without a…