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Words, Ideas, Stuff

Some ideas and thoughts, captured with the view to help you.

three short and sharp tools for goal setting

26/10/2021

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While we’re in the short week between Labour Day and the next weekend, here’s a short post on goal setting. This quote was saved in Melissa’s phone and stuck on her office wall about 11 years ago, and while walking Tirohanga Track this morning, it kept bouncing around her mind. It's prompted a few thoughts to flow on how to capture those grand plans!
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“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
​Trying to stay in ‘light’ mode while working remotely and lapping up the short week and sunny days, we thought we’d keep it short and sweet and share three quick tools for goal setting incase you’re thinking about things you’d love to see or do, or how you’d like to be at some stage in the future.
Future Mewww.futureme.org/ is also a hark back to a tool Melissa discovered when living in Sydney years ago, and it’s as powerful now as it was then. You can write a note now, to be delivered to future you, and then choose the date and time it will be delivered. Add in the details for the goal you’re aiming for and be sure to include some ‘atta girl’ vibes in there too! 
 
Google has their ‘One Simple Thing’ tool, and a back story for how it works and why:

Just get that clarity and write it down! Read here for how and why but trust us, there’s power in doing that one thing. Do it! 
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