Highlights from Scientific American interview with David Allen on goal setting:
- Anything that can keep your mind off negative self-talk is going to be useful to you
- Get very serious about goal setting and lighten up a ton
- Don't beat yourself up anymore
- Best way to set goals is to set about 45 and see which 2 stick around
- Keep focusing on goals and reset
- What you don't do is stand still - better off going 180 degrees, you waste less energy than going from standing still
- Before or in the midst of or instead of setting big goals that you may crash and burn from the best thing you can do is clean up
- At year make a list of all the stuff you might or need to clean up
- Also at year end give yourself acknowledgement for all the things you got done by making a list of the things you completed that year.
Jan. 26 post revision - I moved the interview mp3 here to solve an auto-play issue.
