“BEST WAY TO SET GOALS IS TO SET ABOUT 45 AND SEE WHICH 2 STICK AROUND” DAVID ALLEN PODCAST- GOAL SETTING (Click to Play)

Highlights from Scientific American interview with David Allen on goal setting:
– Anything that can keep your mind off negative self-talk is going to be useful to you
– Get very serious about goal setting and lighten up a ton
– Don’t beat yourself up anymore
– Best way to set goals is to set about 45 and see which 2 stick around
– Keep focusing on goals and reset
– What you don’t do is stand still – better off going 180 degrees, you waste less energy than going from standing still
– Before or in the midst of or instead of setting big goals that you may crash and burn from the best thing you can do is clean up
– At year make a list of all the stuff you might or need to clean up
– Also at year end give yourself acknowledgement for all the things you got done by making a list of the things you completed that year.