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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 […]

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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 […]

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7Jan2008 | goldfish | 2 comments | Continued