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Less is More

Common sense:  In order to succeed I need to do more than the competition.  I need to do more work, provide more content, add more option, and so on and so forth.
Contrarian thinking:  Less is more.  I don’t need to do more busy work.  I need to be smarter about the work I do.  I […]

Popularity: 42% [?]

17Feb2008 | goldfish | 0 comments | Continued
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Think Negative

Conventional thinking:  I should think positive in order to achieve my goals.
Contrarian thinking: If you don’t think about the problems that are getting in the way of achieving your goals you won’t overcome them.
According to Greg Helmstetter, CEO of myGoals.com, an online goal-setting site, instead of thinking positive you should do just the opposite:
“If you […]

Popularity: 51% [?]

28Jan2008 | goldfish | 1 comment | Continued
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Big Bang Theory: Small Changes Do Not Work

Conventional thinking:  Choose small reasonable goals, take small steps and make changes slowly.
Contrarian thinking: Make big changes at once in one big bang approach.
Dr. David Hyman, M.D., chief of general internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston coauthored a study that showed that changing everything at once in a big bang approach is […]

Popularity: 45% [?]

25Jan2008 | goldfish | 0 comments | Continued
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Sixty Eight Percent of All Statistics are Made Up on the Spot

Conventional thinking:  I should live in one of the cities mentioned in Money magazine as one of the 10 best places to live in America. I should go to one of the top 10 schools mentioned in Business Week.  I should invest in the top 10 stocks listed on Kiplinger.  I should not eat fish […]

Popularity: 33% [?]

11Jan2008 | goldfish | 1 comment | Continued
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SMART Goals are Stupid

Common Sense: Goals should be SMART.  The acronym stands for specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and time-bound.  This seems to make perfect sense to most people.  Unless, of course, you are a contrarian goldfish!
Contrarian Thought on Specific Goals 
The idea that you should have specific goals is very nice, except that you cannot predict the future […]

Popularity: 62% [?]

7Jan2008 | goldfish | 2 comments | Continued