Issue #33: Congratulations! You Did It! Now What?
August 26, 2005
THRIVE! Talkin'!Don't just read the newsletter, live it!Jump into the THRIVE! forum and get set for success!  This week we take a look at the joy and horror of completing a goal. Often we’re so focused, so involved with the project at hand, we forget about the rest of picture, the rest of our lives. Let’s see how we can find life between the projects and always be striving for success.
(Matt’s taking a short break. I’m filling in this week, and will be writing more in the weeks ahead. Hope you like it. |
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Congratulations! You Did It! Now What? Living the Project Based LifeI totally rock. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been in a musical revue, run the Falmouth Road Race and completed a major life goal. I’m living the dream and things couldn’t be better. How’d I get so lucky?I realized a long time ago that I have lived most of my life in the middle of one “goal based objective” or another. In both personal and professional areas it’s the type of activity that attracts me. Give me a project, a deadline and a goal and stand back. Web site development, marathon training, and theatrical productions all have one thing in common – the deadline. The show goes up, the gun goes off and the launch date arrives. Woo-hoo! I love it! I love the training, the rehearsing and the planning. I love the adrenaline rush of crunch time and the awesome feeling of success when the goal is achieved. Baby, there ain’t nothing better. And that’s the problem. Next?So what do you do when the race is run, and the show closed? Take a break. Relax. Heck, you’ve just worked your butt off for weeks and need some downtime to recharge. Right? Wrong. At least for me, and I bet for many of you too. The first day or two it is nice to kick back. But then, suddenly it’s a week. Maybe two. You’ve got time to kill. You’ve got that itch and nothing to fill it. Sometimes it gets nasty. Post “show/race/project” Depression. The blues. Maybe there are other things you should be on top of but they just don’t have that urgency.How do we jump start ourselves? How can we get back in the game and be the goal getter we are inside? Where’s my mojo? Move Your Own Goal PostsHere’s my trick. Maybe it’s a method. Whatever you want to call it, here it is: Always be making new goals. Before you finish the current big project look around for the next one. Get excited about it and put it on deck.So the marathon is coming up in a month? Great! Pick another race a few weeks after that! That big project done at the office? Don’t wait! Look at your own inbox. Elevate one that’s been hanging around and get ready to kick its butt. This doesn’t mean you don’t take a breather. This doesn’t mean you don’t revel in your achievement. Taking care of yourself is a key component of the THRIVE! lifestyle (and I’m sure we all want to THRIVE!, right?). It does mean look ahead. Plan your next step. Life keeps moving and we need to move with it. Here are a couple of sayings that fit this issue: “Life’s a Journey not a Destination”and I’d like to add a couple of my own: “Activity is Victory”OK then. Let’s get moving! Jim.
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