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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


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