9.14.2009

Writing 5 year goals

Look around you. Identify the most successful people you know. Now, ask them if they have a long-term plan or goal for themselves, for their career, or for their business. I did this a number of years ago and found that each and every successful person I talked to could identify, usually quite explicitly, where they wanted to be in 5 years...

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4 comments:

  1. Thank you for providing an example of the process of defining a central purpose in life! It is inspiring and informative. I know your readers will benefit.

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  2. Definitely appreciate having the opportunity to read this post. I have been struggling lately to figure out where to take my career next and I think part of the problem is that I need to give some renewed and thought toward a more fully defined central productive purpose and consequently a long range goal.

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  3. And thank you Burgess for your insightful post on the central purpose in life. It has really helped my thinking on the issue.

    Franco,
    I'm glad I could have been of help. Good luck with your thinking. Let me know how it turns out.

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  4. Anonymous12:31 PM

    thaks for these uplifting suggestions

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