Comments on: 8 ideas to help you stay on track to reaching your goals

By: orion1310

orion1310 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:10:56 +0000

It has been 1 years since I have been out of the my life track. I got in the university I always wanted but after 2 years I found out all those thing I have at school is so easy to learn, nothing new, nothing exciting. I’m lost. I’m scared of real life waiting for me after finish my studying. Will I get successful? Will I have enough money to manage my life?
While I was dying counting everyday gone by with nothing changed, I sometimes wanted to get out of this very unpleasant situation but couldn’t gather enough courage. Everybody worries about me, I ignore them and hide myself so that no one can’t notice my existence.
I saw one of my classmates who got stuck like me as well. She failed many test. She doesn’t go to school much. Accidentally she is in one of my study groups. She is not only bad at her skills, but also childish and uncooperative that made anyone angry. I was extremely angry too. I’m yelling out loud ” what the hell is she doing? she gets on my nerves and she is destroying everything”. Then I kept complaining about what and why and how bad she is and certainly , I feel I’m not very bad at all, compared to her.
Then I feel myself so pathetic, since when I sank that low to ease my pain and problem by blaming them on others? This is not what I want, this is not what I always expect about. Where are my dreams? Where are those desires that I always eagerly tell my friends? I waited for somebody or something suddenly erase the pain I have been bearing but nothing had happened. Of course It can’t be happened. I want to help myself, to revive, to do things that I always want to do. The truth is I know the answer from the very beginning of this disaster; I don’t need to read How to Set Your Goal or 7 Things to Have a Happy life , I’m just too scared to gather myself up. I won’t hide anymore, I’ll live , I am not going to die like this. Tomorrow I will talk with my classmate and work things out, I also don’t want to see her fading like that.
I’m very grateful for people who make this website, it does help lost people, more or less, to get back to great life. You have done a good job. Please keep on it . Thank you .

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:21:48 +0000

Marcus Buckingham has a booked called “The one thing you need to know”. All about how the most successful people know how to say no better than anyone else.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:50:37 +0000

Maybe it was just a trick. To ruin your productivity!

Just joking. Seriously though I have a post going up in the next week or so that talks about how the most productive people I know do fewer things than everyone else. They just focus on the place where they add the most value.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:35:16 +0000

Mark,

I really like your idea of the 1 thing I will absolutely get done. You know I’m gonna steal it.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:17:51 +0000

I find that I’m most productive when I’m concentrating on as few things as possible. So if I give myself 1 decent sized goal for the day, I’ll do better than a list of 75 items.

I’m toying with the idea of creating two lists. One is the list of “big rocks” or the 1 thing that I will absolutely get done. The other items will be the “little rocks” or the smaller things that need to get to, but can fit around other tasks. Failure is not getting the 1 thing done.