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INTERNAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM
Friday July 17, 2015
Goals don’t equal achievement.
Examining achievements – our best work, which did the most/best good? Did those actions spring from goals, work-plans or someone’s org-chart? Or rise up from some deeper place?
Some say ‘mission, vision, values’, some say ‘instinct, gut’. Are these just words we mouth without connection to real understanding?
Is a goal really anything but a word written on some page or screen or sticky-note?
I say ‘internal guidance system’. Goals, a different matter.
Having, examining goals is important work/life speak. We talk, set, review them – and quite often just set them aside …
Achievement can be reaching a goal.
I’ve found my most treasured achievements were not connected to goals – but in reaction to problems or opportunities which presented themselves – when actions driven by values and my internal guidance system took over …
Mark Kolke
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 10C/49F, light rain, medium breeze, soggy dog and dampened owner – we trotted but not far, not long … a chilly wet day with optimism for a sunny tomorrow
Reader feedback:
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This is by far my favorite 'musings' to date. Thank you. Take care, EA, Vaughan, ON
This is very enlightening, JB, Courtney, BC
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