Hitting your Goals with Checklists

We are now going to take our goals and turn them into checklists. We will do this with each of our goals, healthy, wealthy, and wise. Before we jump into the checklists, I am going to recommend a book. Years ago, I read The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right...

Word of the Day #72: Mercurial

Mercurial: Flighty, unpredictable, changeable, full of fire or vigor, lively, quick.  You never know your place with mercurial people.  They are unpredictable. We can also use mercurial to describe items related to the metal mercury.  I like the old name for mercury,...

Two types of goals

Last year I wrote a book on goal setting.  I am now in the process of editing that book.  As I edit, I will post excerpts here on my blog.  This is from chapter two: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Two...

Word of the Day #71: Apotheosis

Apotheosis In the old days, the Romans worshipped their political leaders.  Thank goodness we don’t do that anymore.  Oh, wait a minute… Anyway, their leaders would sometimes become “gods”.  There was a verb for the process. Apotheon: to deify, to make someone a god....

Goals: Exactly How to Set Them

Last year I wrote a book on goal setting.  I am now in the process of editing that book.  As I edit, I will post excerpts here on my blog.  This is from chapter two: _______________________________________________________________________________________________...