{"id":17,"date":"2014-01-19T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/goals"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:09:02","slug":"goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"
Goals are a good thing. You feel motivated to pursue them, you feel satisfied when you reach them. <\/div>\n
You probably heard about SMART goals. If not, here\u2019s a good place to start: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMART_criteria<\/a><\/div>\n
For your yearly planning or retrospective, SMART goals are a good tool to use. <\/div>\n
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But\u2026 <\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a thought I had: you owe yourself a BFG<\/b> (patent pending, but inspiration comes from http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BFG_(weapon)<\/a>). A Big Freaking Goal<\/b> (I know, it\u2019s not freaking<\/i> originally, but I aim towards young readers as well…). <\/div>\n
Anyone needs at least one BFG. You don\u2019t want to have too many of those, as they\u2019re big, barely achievable (if you tell to other people about your BFG, they might thing you\u2019re crazy or disconnected or immature or over ambitious or, well, you get the point), but it\u2019s your<\/b> BFG. <\/div>\n
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Maybe an example or two would help here: <\/p>\n
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  • Climbing Mt. Everest.<\/li>\n
  • Be a CEO of a successful company.<\/li>\n
  • Build the next Facebook<\/li>\n
  • Reinvent Shopping\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
    A good method to distinguish a BFG<\/b> from your regular SMART goal is that it\u2019s a goal that you can\u2019t see what happens after you achieve it. <\/div>\n
    You can\u2019t imagine yourself taking the next step<\/em> beyond your BFG. It\u2019s just that<\/i> big. <\/div>\n
    But it\u2019ll be something you wake up in the morning, anticipating, thinking what you can do today<\/em> to take one more step towards your BFG. In my world, that\u2019s a good thing\u2026 <\/div>\n
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    Goals are a good thing. You feel motivated to pursue them, you feel satisfied when you reach them. You probably heard about SMART goals. If not, here\u2019s a good place to start: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMART_criteria For your yearly planning or retrospective, SMART goals are a good tool to use. But\u2026 Here\u2019s a thought I had: you owe… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}