Comments on: Case Study: It’s A Goal, Not a Wet Noodle

By: Nightingale Conant’s Free Mission Statement Builder is So-So » Achieve IT! - Goal Setting Blog

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:12:34 +0000

[...] But I must admit I have never been a fan of personal mission statements. Mission statements are an opportunity to be vague with your future plans. And having blurry direction for your life is not the most efficient path from point A to point B. Clarity, focus and a solid plan is what leads to progress in your personal goals. [...]

By: cloudrider

cloudrider — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:04:32 +0000

Brad, great post.

I generally think of goals as projects – i.e. create a family website – and the plan to achieve this would be to break down the necessary tasks – one of them being “read a book on a web publishing software”. The tasks have to be very specific with a deadline. What do you think?

By: Aaron Potts

Aaron Potts — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:34:05 +0000

Brad,

What a great post about drilling down to find the core issues that need to be addressed. Very often people look at a “surface” desire and think that it is the end all, be all of what they want to do, when it all actuality that surface desire is sometimes just the beginning.

This technique also works when deciding what someone is passionate about for a career. Usually a surface desire for any given type of work is actually the hallmark of a more large-scale goal that a person wants to accomplish.

Good stuff, thanks for posting.

- Aaron

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:06:22 +0000

Jeri,

Thanks, I didn’t realize they were phasing it out. I’ll let her know as well.

By: Jeri Dansky

Jeri Dansky — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:43:17 +0000

It doesn’t matter for the point of your story – but FrontPage is now obsolete. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/default.aspx. (That might indeed matter to Teresa.)