It seems like an approximation of aeon ago since I spent a very enjoyable month with Tony Robbins, grandmaster of personal development tapes and big performer on the TED stage.
I say ‘with’, I of course don’t mean that in literal or biblical terms. He was coming in my ears every morning as I made the rather thankless commute to Chester. More about that in other chronologically-backward posts.
It was a furtive endeavour. I like to think I learned a lot from his ‘Personal Power’ course, about why you need to do the pain to get the pleasure. Whether or not I gained from his sage advice is irrelevant, since he gave me the impetus to rise at 5 and do a frankly stupid commute for what now appears to have been very little remunerative advantage.
But at least I got that poem about the seagull out of it.
One of the things Robbins gave me was this:
Write down one thing you’ll start doing; one thing you’ll stop doing; and…
Hang on. That’s not right. Another thing you’ll do? Surely that’s a repetition of start?
Anyhoo, now reverting to my quest for inner peace and ultimate contentment I have discovered a desire for personal and professional advancement.
And in the vein of The Secret – which is a really really cool book, by the way, so get it and devour – I figure it was this lust for develgence (that’s development indulgence the Thackeray way) that led me to FreelanceSwitch. It’s a great website for people who are switching to the life of a freelancer. Now I’ve written that I imagine that you probably could have worked this one out yourself.
Anyway Freelance Switch does a podcast called Freelance Radio. It’s a radio station for…
One of the episodes was talking about setting goals for 2009.
This year I haven’t even seen a football match, let alone set a goal. I’ve been too ridiculously consumed by changing events. That’s my excuse and it’s a pretty pathetic example.
But it made me think. Have you set your goals for 2009?
I’d love to know if I’m the only one without that one major objective. Of course I have little ones. And I guess if you think about it deeply those goals don’t have to be career-dependent, or focused on revolution.
I like evolution. And my evolutionary goal – set right now – is to be loved and happy at the year’s end. I’m kinda hoping that’s already the case right now but a little more would always be welcome. A little more, every day forth.
Because being needed and being loved is what we all strive for, right? I’m just committing it to screen.
Drop me a few keystrokes and tell me your goal/s. Hopefully I’ll help you achieve them.
