Business Insight Zone

Reprising what I asked halfway through January:

• Are you 25 percent of the way home on your goals for 2008? Is your company?

Most of us, I believe, are engaged in a constant struggle to keep our longer-term goals in mind, for two reasons:

1. We have plenty of day-to-day running around to do, whether it’s to pick up the dry cleaning, attend the child’s soccer practice, or sit in on the weekly sales meeting. This is, I think, called “life.”
2. At some level we prefer the day-to-day running around, because it keeps us from thinking of the Big, Scary Stuff like annual revenue targets, the trajectory of our careers, whether we’ve saved enough for the kids’ college education, and, while we’re at it, the fact that we’re gonna die someday.

But today, while those around you are pranking their way through April Fool’s, why not sit yourself down in a quiet frame of mind and spend 20 minutes reframing what you can do today . . . this week . . . this month . . . this quarter?

Fix it so that you don’t have to look back on July 1 and say, “What? Half the year’s gone already?!”

Good luck — and please let me know how it goes!

Category: The working life