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As at 1 Jan 21

Post author By pexfa
Post date January 2, 2021

I’ve been thinking about

Using the 12 week year to get my goals sorted for the new year. I started re-reading the book to get inspired and motivated and use it as a springboard to formulating more goals. It’s taking a bit longer than anticipated so I decided that my goal for January would be to set up my goal for February. It may even be that I’ll repeat this every other month. That would mean that, in the Agile terminology, January will be Sprint Planning and February will be my Sprint. The first half of March would then be my Sprint Review and Retrospective whilst the second half would be Planning for April Sprint. I’m going to try that out as an approach and see how it works out.

In terms of documenting my goals, I think I’m going to give Notion a try for this. I think I’ll like it so will try it and let you know.

For tracking my goals I’ll have to give life tick a try.

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Hello 2021

Post author By pexfa
Post date January 1, 2021

With a new year comes renewed vision, hope and optimism. I’m thankful for where I am, who I’m with and what I have. But I know there is more. I want this to be a year of setting and pursuing goals. Instead of resolutions, I’ll opt for commitments. One commitment. And that is to the process of setting goals and to the process of achieving them. It will require me to keep my promises to myself. To show up when I don’t feel like it and, in the words of Steven Pressfield, to do the work. That is what I commit to in 2021.

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Hard Losses

Post author By pexfa
Post date October 1, 2020

If you are striving for any thing in life, sometimes you will have to take hard losses.

Hard losses are a part of the driven and purposeful life. Whenever you are pushing past your comfort zone, venturing into uncharted territory or simply trying to accomplish something you have never accomplished before, you will inevitable come across hard losses.

The loss may hurt because the goal was very meaningful, desirable, or very nearly attainable. Those are the worst ones – when you almost nearly nailed it, but somehow in the precious last moments, you let it slip – those are the losses that hurt the most.

I think of Sascha Zverev losing the US Open to Dominic Thiem after leading with two sets – a loss like that hurts. Whether it’s tennis or any thing else in life – a hard loss can hurt. But the important thing is to gain perspective and realise that you are still alive and there will be other opportunities. It is difficult to see that in the moment, but try to remember that this world is bountiful and even if one opportunity doesn’t work out – as desirable as it may have been – it probably isn’t the end of the road. The likelihood is that there will be others and most probably those others may be even better and even sweeter.

Life is full of opportunity – even when you’ve just lost a very meaningful, desirable and important one.

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Carol Kane

Post author By pexfa
Post date May 7, 2020

Inspirational…

Meet the ‘proper northern lass’ who went from working class background to joint Boohoo.com CEO

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Sadio Mané

Post author By pexfa
Post date May 6, 2020

Pure inspiration…

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Little consistent effort…

Post author By pexfa
Post date May 5, 2020

I once heard someone say “we overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a year with a little consistent effort”.

Says it all really.

We can get disappointed because the big bang productivity goal we had for today didn’t quite materialise, but isn’t it more productive and effective to focus on little actions each day that drive us toward one big goal each year?

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