Efforts and Goals and Joy
It is clear that the path forward for me is to seek that balance of hard, valuable, and fun in every project I start, join, back, or advise. Hard is for intellectual engagement, the search for solution by any means necessary. Valuable is the knowledge that if this, whatever this is, works, the world will never be the same. Fun is the sense of passi
... See morearchive.org • Some Lessons Learned
The paradox of goals is, if they are so valuable, why is there often such resistance to the process? The real challenge goals present is simply that a commitment to any kind of long-term outcome assumes a willingness to abandon the familiarity of day-to-day existence and to risk a psychological jump into the unknown. What if I can’t accomplish what
... See moreDavid Allen • Making It All Work
Everyone I know is scheming for the future. They’ve got big goals and get up every day and work like mad to try to achieve them. I’ve always found something odd about that: Despite all this effort, people don’t seem to think too much about the specifics of what would happen after their goal is achieved.
dynomight • Nobody optimizes happiness
we often can’t see where the projects are going to take us in advance; we’ll be creating new realities and possibilities that we simply can’t see because they don’t presently exist. Think about something you’ve done that really mattered to you and how many things unfolded that you never saw coming. Your best-work projects follow the twentieth-centu
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