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January 1, 2009 6 Comments

Did you write them down… yeah… those goal thingys?

Happy New Year my fellow earth dwellers (shout out to those from off the planet that may be reading via RSS). Here it is January 1, 2009 8:32 Central Time. I am catching up on my RSS feeds, Twitter Feeds, etc. and sitting here wondering what the New Year will bring me. I am also thinking about what I will accomplish in the coming 365 days.

Have you thought about that? Yep… those trendy New Year’s resolutions that are so popular to talk about. You made them yesterday. Now it is time to ‘Cowboy Up’ and dig in and do them.

Don’t even bother.

Because you did not write them down. In the past 30 days if you verbally or mentally built a list of items that you want to accomplish in 2009 and you did not write them down you wasted your vocal cords and burned some brain cells that could have better been used elsewhere.

Don’t get me wrong. I love New Year’s resolutions. As human beings we love to set goals that start on a major time period. Every morning when we wake up it is a new day and most of us feel it is a new time to start over and do something with our life. The same goes with Sunday morning  and the 1st of every month.  The New Year is a very large milestone in each of our lives (we usually get less than 100 of them) and therefore it is natural that we want to set very lofty goals for the next 12 months. It is also a great time to measure what we have accomplished in the past 12 months.

But if you did not write them down so you can see them then they might as well not exist. Writing them down is the equivalent of making a personal contract with yourself. Thinking about it (the gentleman’s handshake) is one thing. But we all know that handshake contracts can be  dangerous.  Actually writing it down make you legally bound with yourself to actually perform said services. Plus you don’t ever want to break a contract that you can see taped to the bathroom mirror every morning so you?

So the question to you is: Did you write them down? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Happy 2009 !

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    • http://www.studentlinc.net tim

      Hi.

      I’m visiting your blog from the comment you made on Chris Brogan’s blog. I want to help you get more comments. So here’s one for 2009!

      I did in fact write down my goal thingies! I guess the next step is to post them in a place where they’ll keep me accountable and maybe make them public.

      Happy New Year!!

    • http://stopdoingnothing.com actionman

      Thanks for the visit. If you subscribe via RSS I’ll let you know when I have the forum up and running. You can post them there and have alot of people keep you accountable for them.

    • http://www.xomba.com/user/mythman Uncle MythMan

      That’s a good way to be about things; until you physically manifest your intentions, your solutions- and plans are just ‘flashes of rainbow-sparks in your head.’

    • http://www.xomba.com/user/mythman Uncle MythMan

      I just remembered: Aren’t there ‘goal listing thingies’ online? I vaguely remember something like that; but that was college, so I was probably high (smoking-up the computer-lab-windows).

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    • http://www.xomba.com/user/mythman Uncle MythMan

      That's a good way to be about things; until you physically manifest your intentions, your solutions- and plans are just 'flashes of rainbow-sparks in your head.'