All Posts Tagged With: "Goals"

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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 […]

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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 […]

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25Jan2008 | goldfish | 0 comments | 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 […]

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7Jan2008 | goldfish | 2 comments | Continued