Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, who has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University last week. He gives excellent advice on how to live your life and achieve your most outrageous dreams. It’s a must see for entrepreneurs, and really anyone looking for a refresher course on living life to achieve your maximum creative potential.
A really great list of goal setting tips and tricks can be found in the article "25 gems I've learned about goal setting" in the 'news for entrepreneurs' section.
A new one for me was the following: "The best weekly goal tip I ever got was to divide my time into 5 sections: to do, to contact, to see, to read and to write. If I could cross everything and everyone off that list by the end of the week, I was successful."
Use it and play with it...
One of the growing stages in developing your business is goal setting and creating projects. Here the fun starts. When you set a goal and create a project, ideas get real. Results are defined, a game is created. Maybe it is a group project, now players can join the game/ clients can join the business. Now you can see if it is really the right idea, if yes, energy comes in, anxiety, excitement. You feel the risk to loose, if the game is the right challenge. That creates this stimulating flow of energy.
A good example is the article "NaNoWriMoOhNo!" in the 'news for entrepreneurs' section. The author of this blog decided to write a novel in one month, supported by an online-community. You can sense the excitement of creating a challenging game.
