Comments on: Personal Development: Leaving Your Goals Unfinished http://breathingprosperity.com/blog/personal-development-leaving-your-goals-unfinished Helping You Create a Life of Magnificent Abundance! Thu, 12 May 2011 15:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Theresa http://breathingprosperity.com/blog/personal-development-leaving-your-goals-unfinished/comment-page-1#comment-2351 Theresa Thu, 31 May 2007 14:13:27 +0000 http://www.breathingprosperity.com/blog/?p=218#comment-2351 I was merrily reading along and came across this http://www.personaldevelopment.ie/2006/08/are-you-interested . The basic point is that if you haven't accomplished your goal, especially if it is an old one, you need to consider if you are still interested in it enough to stay with it. For example, I'm using that this morning. I loved the books for LOTR, but never watched the movie trilogy because at the time I didn't think they could possibly fulfill the original. (I know better now, of course). But I did manage to fall for Viggo from the Aragorn pictures :). (I like my actors smart, giving, tall, dark, and handsome - like Dad, I guess.) Anyhow, after waking up to him (grin), I joined some Viggo lists and made a folder in my ScreenPaver folders for his pictures, and so on. But lately I'm not as interested in him, and finding something to watch him in has not been a driving force. So this morning I have moved his picture folder to the Old ScreenPaver pics to join a few others, and I'm unsubscribing from those lists. I'm not totally deleting the pictures, because eventually I do want to pick him up as an interest again, but that won't be for a while. On the other hand, I've found a renewed interest in OOAK dolls and doll making, and this definitely keeps recurring, not sure why, but I'm going with it again. So when you're deciding what to do with that old goal that has suddenly reared its head again - maybe it's time to check if you're really still interested, and at what priority/ranking/place you want that goal to be. Make it a wonderful day! :). I was merrily reading along and came across this http://www.personaldevelopment.ie/2006/08/are-you-interested . The basic point is that if you haven’t accomplished your goal, especially if it is an old one, you need to consider if you are still interested in it enough to stay with it.

For example, I’m using that this morning. I loved the books for LOTR, but never watched the movie trilogy because at the time I didn’t think they could possibly fulfill the original. (I know better now, of course). But I did manage to fall for Viggo from the Aragorn pictures :) . (I like my actors smart, giving, tall, dark, and handsome – like Dad, I guess.)

Anyhow, after waking up to him (grin), I joined some Viggo lists and made a folder in my ScreenPaver folders for his pictures, and so on. But lately I’m not as interested in him, and finding something to watch him in has not been a driving force.

So this morning I have moved his picture folder to the Old ScreenPaver pics to join a few others, and I’m unsubscribing from those lists. I’m not totally deleting the pictures, because eventually I do want to pick him up as an interest again, but that won’t be for a while.

On the other hand, I’ve found a renewed interest in OOAK dolls and doll making, and this definitely keeps recurring, not sure why, but I’m going with it again.

So when you’re deciding what to do with that old goal that has suddenly reared its head again – maybe it’s time to check if you’re really still interested, and at what priority/ranking/place you want that goal to be.

Make it a wonderful day! :) .

]]> By: Aaron M. Potts http://breathingprosperity.com/blog/personal-development-leaving-your-goals-unfinished/comment-page-1#comment-2350 Aaron M. Potts Tue, 29 May 2007 22:14:53 +0000 http://www.breathingprosperity.com/blog/?p=218#comment-2350 Great post! I love this quote: "If you keep completing portions of a project whenever you think about it, won’t it be a 100% complete eventually?" Being someone who is <b>constantly</b> starting new projects, I have recognized that my enthusiasm is always strongest in the beginning, but that, of course, is when it's easy to do the work! Later, when boredom or complacency start to set in, THAT is when someone's true colors are tested. However, your advice to just get started again is rock-solid. It literally is just that easy. Thanks for sharing! :) Great post! I love this quote:

“If you keep completing portions of a project whenever you think about it, won’t it be a 100% complete eventually?”

Being someone who is constantly starting new projects, I have recognized that my enthusiasm is always strongest in the beginning, but that, of course, is when it’s easy to do the work!

Later, when boredom or complacency start to set in, THAT is when someone’s true colors are tested. However, your advice to just get started again is rock-solid. It literally is just that easy.

Thanks for sharing! :)

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