Musings From My Mac

Goal Setting

It feels like the year's in a holding pattern 'til 2008. Most businesses are either closed until Jan. 2 or working on shortened hours.

Meanwhile, the New York Times has run a column about doing a year-end review with a pretty useful method that's sort of an offline exercise in creating tag clouds.

The columnist, Michael Melcher, makes a good point about why it's useful to take the "step back and assess" approach:

Goals are more meaningful when they result from your taking stock of where you actually are, which requires you to think about how your life has developed over the past year.

The other point is resolutions often get left by the wayside. But concrete, recorded goals are usually the ones we reach.

For those thinking about New Year's resolutions when that niggling feeling that you know they'll be abandoned, try Melcher's method.

Posted by MacDiva at December 29, 2007 5:25 PM