The following are some points that stood out to me while reading How to Get Rich
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If you’ve ever created a resume, I’m sure you’ve heard something along the lines of “make sure you put ‘goal oriented’ somewhere in there. Employers like that.” If you’ve ever owned a business, you understand the idea of being goal oriented better than most, since without goals you wouldn’t have started the business in the first place, you can’t make quarterly or yearly projections, and your business doesn’t grow.
Yet, being goal oriented isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that while being goal oriented is good in the short run, in the long run it is most certainly detrimental to anyone who goes by that mindset exclusively. Continue reading ‘Goal Oriented or Process Oriented?’
Synchronicity is a funny thing: one minute it’s nowhere to be found, the next minute it’s everywhere you look, in everything you see, feel and think.
I’ve been reevaluating much of what it is I do, why I do it and why those reasons are there in the first place. I’m discovering more and more that over the past few years I’ve reached a bit of a dead-end when it comes to personal growth. In the pursuit of such things as what I should want, I’ve forgotten a lot of the stuff I’ve always truly wanted. The problem is I’ve done the first so long that the second was almost forgotten, with the only thing reminding me if its existence being that little voice inside saying illogical things like “I’d rather be doing X.” Continue reading ‘Do You Love It Enough to Be a Professional?’
The Wife and I broke down and finally bought seasons 2.5 and part of season 3 of Battlestar Galactica from the iTunes store this past week. This morning we were watching the first episode of season 3, “Occupation/Precipice” (they’re sold as one episode) when a few things said caught my ear.
I’m in the process now of evaluating a number of things about my life. If, in fact, Socrates was right when he stated that “a life left unexamined is a life not worth living,” then I suppose now is one of those times I’m making sure this life has been as continues to be worth living. The following BSG scene hit on a few important points for me: Continue reading ‘Too Hard or Not Hard Enough? An Internal Struggle’
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