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	<title>The Path to Personal Growth &#187; settiing goals</title>
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		<title>Goals, Giving, Growing, (and Golf)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I promised that I&#8217;d share my new writing plan with you, and also let you know how you would benefit from it. So here&#8217;s the scoop&#8230;
One of the &#8216;light bulb&#8217; moments I had during my weekend cleaning spree was that I need to be writing a whole lot more than what I have been. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I promised that I&#8217;d share my new writing plan with you, and also let you know how you would benefit from it. So here&#8217;s the scoop&#8230;</p>
<p>One of the &#8216;light bulb&#8217; moments I had during my weekend cleaning spree was that I need to be writing a whole lot more than what I have been. Research and writing are almost like an addiction for me. If I&#8217;m not doing one or the other, I&#8217;m just not happy. And I&#8217;ve not been doing enough of either in the last month or so. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been focused too much lately on the negative parts of my life, and it just ain&#8217;t working. There&#8217;s been too many days where I&#8217;ve worried over the bills (and how they&#8217;re gettin&#8217; paid); where I should move to, and when I should move; and whether or not I&#8217;m even makin&#8217; the right decisions &#8212; which usually leads to no decisions being made at all, and even less writing getting done. </p>
<p>So, on Saturday morning, I decided that it was time to quit makin&#8217; everything harder than it has to be, and just get back to the basics of what makes me tick. And what makes me tick (from a workin&#8217; standpoint at least) is researching, reading, writing, and golf (both the playing of and writing about). Since the golf course doesn&#8217;t open for another few weeks, there&#8217;s lots of time for the rest of the stuff on the list!</p>
<p>What I did was make a brand new plan and change all my goals. Up until now I&#8217;ve always had goals that were out of my control. I&#8217;d set targets to make X amount of money or get Y amount of subscribers in a certain period of time. And then I&#8217;d beat myself up when it didn&#8217;t happen, knowing full well that there was no way I could control whether I&#8217;d achieve those goals, since they were dependent on other people taking action. </p>
<p>When I finally clued in that the only goals I can realistically achieve are the ones where my actions control the success or failure rate, I rewrote everything in terms of specific, measurable and achievable outcomes. Every goal I have now for the next 90 days depends on me reaching certain numerical targets in terms of quantities of the content I create. </p>
<p>I also realized that for me, as long as I concentrate on the writing, the rest of my life will sort itself out pretty much on its own. </p>
<p>And that&#8217;s where you come in&#8230;</p>
<p>While I could be perfectly happy writing about topics that interest me (and there&#8217;s a lot of them), I&#8217;d really much rather spend my time researching and writing the topics that interest you. I&#8217;m making it my mission to provide you with the information and resources that you want to ensure your success in your quest for personal growth. And I don&#8217;t mean tell me what you want so that I can create products to sell to you (although for the sake of transparency and total honesty here, there might be the odd one because after all, I do have those pesky bills to pay). What I really really want to know is what topics you would like to see me research and write about for you here on this blog. What areas of personal growth can I help you with?</p>
<p>So please, don&#8217;t be shy. Leave a comment and let me know what type of content you want to see when you visit here. It&#8217;ll be a win-win situation for both of us&#8230; You get the information you&#8217;re looking for, and I get to spend my time writing something that you can use. </p>
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