Have you ever set a goal…and failed? At some point, it happens to all of us. After all, our reach should exceed our grasp, right? That doesn’t make it easy to admit failure, or to correct it. Did you let a New Year’s resolution lapse, or slip off of a diet? …
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Tag Archive: goals
Getting Out of Bed
Image by Wha’ppen via Flickr Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Is it so you can exercise the privilege of spending 8 hours in a cubicle? I didn’t think so. In Okinawa, it’s call the ikigai. In Costa Rica, it’s the plan de vida. It’s your sense of purpose–the reason you…
Avoiding the Downside of Saving
Like all good silver linings, saving often comes with a storm cloud. Too often, people fall into the trap of forgetting to live while they are digging out of debt. Once you get into the habit of spending every spare cent to pay down debt, retirement, or a college fund, it gets easy to ignore…
New Year Goals
I’m not a fan of New Year’s Resolutions. They are generally drunken promises made on December 31st that are broken by the middle of January, if they are remembered at all. I don’t make resolutions. My goal for 2010 is to complete one major self-improvement project each month. That’s an entire year of 30-day projects. …
