Worried others might read my goals...

[ProjectX]

I have a binder with all my goals printed out, some of them are very personal and I am worried someone might read them.
What can I do to prevent this?

[Peek]

• find a picture that gives you the motivational impact of your written goal and put that one in in stead of the words.
  
• Write out again and leave out the E,A,O,I and U's. Now it is readable for you, guessable for others
  
• Make your own secret language
  
• simples ways, keep your book close to you at all times. Guard it with your life:your future is in it!

Good luck!

[beautyscientist]

I read them the other day. I have told everyone else about them now, so you don't need to worry any more.

[Danyelle]

buy a lil under the bed safe and lock your binder up when you're not in the room with it.

[Fullcrum]

Or get the Steve Pavlina recommended Journal v4.

It's password protected. All my goals are in there. It's awesome

[karinalynn]

This may not work for you, but I have a personal online journal. That way, it's password protected! There are several ways you could do this; I use a private blog (I am the only one with permission to view it).

Perhaps you were looking for something more paper-based, in which case you could try the suggestion about locking it up.

[ProjectX]

Yes I have the journal software but I print it out because its more accessible and my binder is huge so its hard to hide it.
Also removing all the vowels is still easy to read. I guess the only way is to write a secret language e.g latin or make it up.

[newmark]

Well, if you ever wanted to learn a foreign language, now you have a good reason.

[Fullcrum]

HAhaha, awesome newmark

[ProjectX]

Originally Posted by newmark

Well, if you ever wanted to learn a foreign language, now you have a good reason.

That will be in a very long time.

[Brutha]

Well, if you ever wanted to learn a foreign language, now you have a good reason.

I don't think that it's a good idea. Words in your native language have more meaning for you.
Personal meaning is important for the goal process.

[Neblasian]

* find a picture that gives you the motivational impact of your written goal and put that one in in stead of the words.
* Write out again and leave out the E,A,O,I and U's. Now it is readable for you, guessable for others
* Make your own secret language
* simples ways, keep your book close to you at all times. Guard it with your life:your future is in it!

This is some great advice. Another thing, if it is a hardcopy make sure you keep it in a safe and secure place with a lock. My girlfriend found my journal the other day and it was not a pretty sight. Luckily most of the stuff I had coded. In addition, please make sure not to spell out full names of people and places, initial backwards if you must. I know some people will recommend using journal software, but i feel more involve when i'm actually writing.



Regards

[Calimero]

Strange. My experience is that to reach goals it is better to share them with others.
Of course it is good to start to write them down and as accurate as possible for yourself. But after you are sure about the goals you reach them often easier or faster when you share them and tell them to people that you know, that you can trust, that you care about and that care about you. Once you do so, your goals are also "saved" in their minds and than you can just burn the whole written manuscript.
Another way is to share it with people that you don't know anonymous on a forum like this one. As we don't know everyone out here personal, even telling personal goals are not really that big deal. Of course you don't have to use real names of people and places and go in detail about things that could identify you or other people.

[Zwynd]

Originally Posted by Peek

• find a picture that gives you the motivational impact of your written goal and put that one in in stead of the words.
  

• This is a great idea but op don't settle with just one picture that has an obvious meaning to others...
  
  Turn your goals into non-related symbols. Paint them into a picture and frame it. Everyone will see a lovely picture while you'll see a picture of your dreams and that wonderful feeling will be reinforced. All because of creativity.
  
  

  Write out again and leave out the E,A,O,I and U's. Now it is readable for you, guessable for others

  LL, ppl cn rd....
  
  

  Make your own secret language
  

  That's even worse, imo. Someone will be even more interested in deciphering it. Then everything you do afterward will be met with suspicion.
  
  

  simples ways, keep your book close to you at all times. Guard it with your life:your future is in it!

Good luck!

Waste of time. Nothing is ever secure forever. The more you guard something the more likely you're going to lose it. Especially if you build up that thinking that you have to 'fight the world.' You'll be drained before the end of the week.

[greatcaptain]

It may make it easier to accomplish your goals if you tell other people about them, that's something I'm working on doing. Even if they are personal, you should find at least one person who can give you support on all your goals.

[toasterwater]

Just stop making goals...

[netanel22]

There's a great sloution for this, a PDA, for example the iphone which have great benefits :
1)could hold your Docs, pdf's with fun accessible.
2)save notes in folders.
3)your private phone.
4)lot's more.

But, Quite expensive.

[netanel22]

Originally Posted by greatcaptain

It may make it easier to accomplish your goals if you tell other people about them, that's something I'm working on doing. Even if they are personal, you should find at least one person who can give you support on all your goals.

I've tryied that, but people seems to be negative about things that not in there reality, in my opinion it's best to keep those goals to yourself, But if you have someone that share the same goal it could be great to chat about it.

[simonsta]

Hi ProjectX - Paul Piotrowski writes a neat post on his blog inspiredmoneymaker.com about personal goals and why you shouldn't share them, so I understand your dilemma.

My thought is that if you desire your goals so much and you are so committed to them, you don't need to write them down. You'll know them right off the top of your head. They'll be ingrained in your memory!

Take a look at Paul's post: 10 Reasons to Keep Your Goals to Yourself

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Why are you worried about others reading your goals? What is it you think would happen if they did?

[kf9211]

Sometimes when I write down my goals, I just use quick shortcuts for doing it. I don't do this so much for privacy, as I do for ease of use. For example one of my goals is to make $4,000 by May 30th (of next year), and sometimes when I write down my goals I'll write 4K, just because I already know what the goal is, and just by writing that down I'll know what I'm talking about.

Hope this helps,
Kyle

[Anand Dhillon]

I see this as an opportunity for some personal growth.

Why are you afraid of sharing your goals?
What are you afraid might happen?
If that happened, could you deal with the consequences?

I suggest taking a look insde and seeing what really makes your fearful and working through that until you are comfortable sharing your goals with others. That doesn't mean you have to actively go out and share your goals - it just means you are no longer afraid of being "found out". Whatever your goals are, I'm sure they're nothing to be ashamed of.

[karinalynn]

Originally Posted by newmark

Well, if you ever wanted to learn a foreign language, now you have a good reason.

Two words: pig latin