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Thought: On setting achievable goals being a bad concept06.29.08

Around December or January of every year, I notice many people talking about the goals1 they wish to accomplish for the coming year or the goals they wanted to accomplish for the ending year. Many people set goals that are good for their health, like losing weight, or exercising to remain slim. Many other people set financial goals, like earning money, earning more money, or paying off debt. Still, many other people have different kinds of goals that they try to coordinate around the concept of a 365-days goal period.

One thing I would like to propose to you is to start thinking of setting up goals, instead of planning to set up achievable goals. Your goals can be sorted out in ways other than the achievable and non-achievable category. You can look at a goal and think “Can this goal be pursued easily using the exact tools, resources and character that I have at my disposal at this very moment?” That way, goals which can be achieved easily can also exist along side the goals which cannot be achieved easily. Thus, your goals will exist based on what you want your goals to be and the difficulty level of their completion or progress, instead of your goals existing based on whether or not you think they can be achieved.

5 reasons setting achievable goals is a bad stereotypical trend


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  1. No, not soccer goals. Soccer goals and saving soccer goals help you in different ways, like making you stop the goal and start the pain. []
  2. The Challenge Facer!!“ []
  3. I myself have talked about goals planning before, but I have also noticed that I have rarely, or ever, explicitly expressed the details of my yearly plans in public. There is a reason for that: I do not end up having goals based on a year. Instead, I have goals for life, both short term to long term, which keep changing or modifying or updating dynamically every moment of the day, or whenever I think about them or whenever I do something about them, when it comes to realizing as to how or what can be done for me to change to get that goal or to get similar results as the goal in mind. My goals rarely change in terms of being eliminated - a few new goals keep getting added from time to time, while many goals have been with me since childhood. Without goals or efforts towards goals, which are in my view the desire and the actual action to experience an idea or a concept or a dream, life can be very robotic or extremely unsatisfying for me. []
  4. I stand against the idea of doing something because the society does it. Think emotionally, think rationally, think from scratch, and decide what you want to do: that is what I tell myself all the time. []

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Question: Do you like responding to all blog comments?07.08.07

Today I have a fun question that probably applies to every blogger and every blog reader and commentor. Do you like responding to each and every blog comment?

There are two main ways you can respond to blog comments. One could be as a blogger, and the other could be as a blog reader.

Responding to comments as a blogger

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Question: Do you want guest bloggers on your blog?06.10.07

This question goes hand in hand with yesterday’s question. Would you be willing to have someone else guest blog on your own blog?

Yesterday’s question focused on the question of guest blogging yourself on other blog. Today, you can focus on the question of whether or not you want others to guest blog on your own blog. Having guest bloggers can mean both more posts and more responsibilities for you and your site. If you do not currently have a blog, in the future you may have a blog where you will have a choice of either having or not having guest bloggers.

You may or may not want to have guest blogs on your blog because of various reasons:

Wanting to have Guest Bloggers vs. Not Wanting to have Guest Bloggers

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Question: Do you want to guest blog on other blogs?06.09.07

This can be a bit of a more serious question than usual, though the answer may be a lot of fun depending on what you think. Do you like the idea of guest blogging on other blogs?

You may have already seen my Guest Policy here or the guest policy at RA Project, which allow you to guest blog site easily. You may have a blog of your own, or you may be a person who loves commenting instead of having a blog. You may even be a reader who prefers reading to writing. Regardless of you who may be, you may or may not like the idea of writing posts, or guest blogging, on other sites.

Wanting To Guest Blog vs. Not Wanting To Guest Blogging

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Question: Do you hope to make money from your blog?06.03.07

This can be the most important question for many bloggers. Whether you are a personal blogger or a non-personal blogger, do you hope to make money from your blog?

For many people, blogs cost money. Domain names, hosting, buying layouts or logos, buying software to make layouts or logos, and a myriad of other things result in us spending money and time on our sites. Many bloggers can try different sources of income in order to cover up any expenses for their blogs. Usually, there are two ways to make money from those sources through a blog: earning money directly and indirectly.

Earning money directly vs. earning money indirectly from your blog

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Question: do you try to be formal or informal on your blog?05.20.07

This question can be a fun way to see how you look at your blog readers. Do you try to be formal or informal on your blog?

Different people act differently in the offline world. Similarly, people may act informal or formal depending on their own character and also depending on the situation. Do you try be formal or informal around your blog readers? Do you maintain the same type of behavior on your blog, or do you usually switch between being formal and informal?

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Question: where do you see your blog in 1 year?05.19.07

This should be a simple and fun question to think about if you run a blog. Where do you see your blog in 1 year?

Imagine doing the exact same things that you currently do on your blog for the next 12 months: what do you see different on your site in a year? Do you even see anything different on your site by then? This can be both what you actually see, and what you hope to see.

There are many different aspects of blogging that can measure the performance of a blog in a certain time frame. Following are 2 different types of things you can focus on, when imagining where your blog will be in a year: user participation, and blogger participation.

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Meme - The Goal Meme04.07.07

Carolyn from Thoughts & Philosophies tagged me again for an interesting meme. This meme is called “The Goal Meme.” The meme simply allows a person to list their goals in life. If you wish, you can read my article that describes what memes are.

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Slow down when facing problems achieving your blogging goals03.17.07

If you face issues while trying to achieve some goals, you may be tempted to give up. What I would suggest before you give up, or before you even think of trying harder, is to take a small step back and see why things are not going smoothly. You can do this by observing yourself, and by observing both people who are successful and people who are not successful at the same goals you are pursuing. When you run into problems, continue your efforts at a slower pace in order to figure out why you are facing problems.

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Feeling motivated is useless unless you act upon it03.09.07

Motivation is an important element that can help you do different things in life. If you are motivated, you feel as if aiming for something is worth your time and efforts. While being motivated is good, you should realize that without actual effort, motivation is useless. There is no point in finding ways to be motivated if you cannot work that motivation into your efforts in order to achieve different things.

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Why you should start things early02.22.07

I recently read a post by Daniel in which he talked about having emergency posts. This prompted me to comment and realize that scheduling posts in advance can be go along with having emergency posts. This concept can be applied to the offline world too. Planning and starting your tasks early can help reduce stress and avoid problems you may face later on.

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Why you should focus on as few goals as possible02.19.07

People do different things in order to achieve different results. Many of us usually make goals every now and then in order to achieve certain results. Even though aiming for certain results is a wonderful thing, you should avoid aiming for a lot of results at once. Doing so would affect the important goals you should be solely focusing on. Trying to achieve everything at the same time will probably result in low quality results for most of your goals. Aiming for fewer and more specific goals will result in better results and a higher level of achievement.

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Achieving Online Goals: Goal-Oriented or Action-Oriented?01.25.07

If you are thinking of setting up online goals this year, one of the most important things you can do is to realize whether you want to be goal-oriented or action-oriented. If you are goal-oriented, your main focus will be on the results and not the process. If you are action-oriented, your main focus will be on the process and not the results. Figuring out which type of person you want to be for each of your online goals can be crucial to the success of those goals.

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