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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: _______________________________________________________________________________________________...

Word of the Day #70: Antediluvian

Antediluvian Antediluvian is a word we use to describe the period before the Flood described in the book of Genesis.  Ur, for example, was a city in antediluvian times. We also use antediluvian as an adjective to describe something hopelessly old-fashioned. For...

Goals: Focus on Helping Others

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: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Focus...

Word of the Day #69: Ersatz

Ersatz: A shoddy substitute; a replacement of inferior quality.  A synthetic material instead of natural material.  From the German word for replacement, substitute, or spare: ein Ersatz.  Synonyms include counterfeit, phony, false, fake, imitation, and spurious “The...

How to Choose Your 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: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We are...

Word of the Day #68: Euphoria

Euphoria: a feeling of well-being, elation, intense excitement, or happiness Euphoria comes from the Greek prefix eu (well) and the verb phero (I carry, bring, or bear). In the absence of euphoria, you may be feeling the opposite, dysphoria.  Dysphoria, from the Greek...