Sunday, May 21, 2006

Dreams and Goals and Plans

I was poking around in this list of business and career blogs and found a few gems around the concept of setting goals and following dreams. I wasn't really looking for them, but that's what seemed to stick...a quote from each:

Life 2.0: How big dare you dream?
"As we achieve our goals we push back the boundaries of what we think ourselves capable of - almost like blowing up a balloon one breath at a time. Yet for many of us there's a deep nagging suspicion that we don't need to keep pushing back those boundaries - that we are capable of far more than think, that we could in fact simply prick the balloon and be done with boundaries and limitation for good."


Making A Difference: Envisioning your dreams
"Blast off into the future - take a quick ride in a time machine out 5, 10, 20, 30 years - where your dream is realized. You've done it. It's happened. Take a look around at what's going on around you in this future place and time. In this future, what's different - in yourself, in the world? Where are you? What are you doing? Who else is there? What's accessible to you that seems out of reach today?"


Escape from Cubicle Nation: Before you create your business plan, create your life plan
"I cannot tell you how many miserable multi-millionaire entrepreneurs I met in my years in Silicon Valley. I believe they were miserable because they got too enamored with business growth at all costs and didn't see creating a great business as a means to create a great life."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeh, best be careful what we dream about!

And I think it's also true that we never have a better life until we can see it for ourselves.

Thanks for helping me put this into perspective Jeremy.

Jeremy said...

Thank you, Nick. All I did was paste a piece of your post along with a couple of others...so much good thinking on this topic out there.