One of the many points made by the authors that I appreciate is the acknowledgment of the whirlwind and how it can take over and keep us from being able to achieve our goals. It's so true that day to day life brings with it a myriad of situations that must be handled and take our focus away from the most important goals we're trying to achieve. I hate that feeling, the one where you look back a certain amount of weeks or months and reflect on what you've accomplished only to realize you've been spinning your wheels running yourself down getting know where. Who has time for that?
Equally appreciated is the advice to have no more than two goals at a time. It makes sense that as we add to our list of what we'd like to accomplish, the longer the list gets, the less likely we will be to see anything come to fruition. I've seen this in my own educational organizations; at the start of the year there is a long list of things to accomplish and by the middle of the year when everyone is busy surviving, they seem to all fade away in the background. Then, at the end of the year, we wonder why we even bother with this goal stuff at the beginning of the school year when we could be getting things done in our own classrooms.
One last idea that was shared by the authors that left an indelible impression on me is that the whirlwind acts on us and that we need to be the ones in control and acting upon our lead measures so that in the end, we meet and attain our "wildly important goal".
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