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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  Well... I think you are absolutely right. However, I already did that. That's why I wrote "Aside from my "big" goals, ... this is what I specifically want to do in 2009".
What I meant is that I already know what the "big" goals are and what the real purpose behind it is. Then I thought about a concrete, specific implementation of those big goals. My list of goals in this thread IS this concrete, specific implementation. So, going back to grouping them in bigger areas would be going back to the starting point!
It seems backwards to me to have a top-down approach (even though I didn't share the top part of it here) and then go back to where I started with a bottom-up approach. Er, does this make sense?
For example I know that I want to express myself creatively and generate Harmony for me and others, and I think writing is a good medium for that. Fine. But now I need some concrete writing projects. So that's what I'm dealing with in this thread, the concrete stuff. Writing my eBooks and developing my blog etc. Going back to "I want to generate Harmony through writing" is correct of course, that's the real goal, but it won't bring me any further. I already know that.
I'm already clear about the bigger picture and about why I want to do what I want to do. I need help in organizing how to do it.
But you are right of course. Thank you.  |
I understand what you're saying but I think you might be slightly missing the point or the process.
the goals you listed on page one are not your real goals, they are
potential parts of your real goals and that's it. They are a
wishlist and that's all. You don't HAVE to write 3 ebooks, 3 novels, 3 screenplays and children book to fulfill your writing goal. you could write 1 amazing ebook, 1 amazing screenplay, 1 amazing novel and be totally fulfilled in this area and achieve all you wanted in this area of your life. you might even just write one children's book and nothing else for the whole year and still be fulfilled if the book was excellent and did well for you financially. Imagine if JK Rowling felt she had to write 9 other projects AND Harry Potter in one year, how much less quality do you think Harry Potter would have been? would it have even been finished? would it have ever been published? your goal is, as you say, "to generate Harmony through writing" so do that! one word at a time and see where it leads you.
what you need to do
is focus on the larger goals, and within those goals have a project planning section with a lot of ideas you have to achieve the larger goal (i.e. the 3 ebooks, 3 novels etc.). each week you review your larger goals and projects and decide what you will do that week to move that larger goal forward. again, using the writing example, you're not going to be writing 3 ebooks, 3 novels, 3 screenplays and 1 children book at the same time are you? so have your writing goal that you review each week and each week you decide what writing project you are going to work on. for the first 3 weeks it might be an ebook, for the next 5 weeks it might be a children's book etc. whatever you choose for the week, focus on that and that only.
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all the best