Setting Goals
As I've mentioned in the past I don't listen to podcasts all that much. I have been enjoying the Grammar Girl podcast on QDNow.com a bit. I'm still catching up to older episodes so I'm not yet listening to current releases.
Anyway, something that another QDNow.com podcaster, Money Girl, said in an episode I managed to listen to rang true. The topic was setting financial goals.
Before I dig into the quote that I enjoyed I'll note that someone managed to get Money Girl to turn down her mic's gain. Her first few episodes, the ones I bothered to listen to, were terribly distorted making the experience painful. The most recent one, which I previewed briefly to check on, has a much more sane volume level and leaves the line-level distortion out.
The quote from the episode that I enjoyed is "Listen to this: In a 1979 survey of 1000 graduating Harvard students, 84% of them had no particular defined goals. Thirteen percent of them had goals, but they weren’t in writing. Only 3% of the students had written goals. Ten years later, the very same students were surveyed again. The 13% who had goals, but not in writing, earned, on average, twice as much as the students without a plan. But the 3% who had written goals earned, on average, 10 times more than the other 97% without written goals. Isn’t that amazing?"
The point is that writing one's goals out helps one achieve a higher level of success in attaining those goals. As such I have decided that I'll keep this blog entry around and updated with general goals.
- MY GENERAL GOALS:
Get a good jobBook live music for Swinside the evening of the 29th(Cyl and Nikko)Book live music for the evening of April 5th at Swinside(JueL and Kaklick)Book live music for the evening of April 12th at Swinside(lofthesedays Rust and Mel Cheeky)- Book live music for the evening of April 19th at Swinside
- Cutover MelodiesToMemories.com to Mera's new design
- Die
young, penniless, miserable, cold and alone.