… common and UNcommon viewpoints about money

I did an interesting exercise a few months ago. The exercise helped me relook at goals versus desires. I know that there are ton’s of articles and books and numerous things people talk about Goals. How you must have them, looking at them etc.

For this past year, although I wrote down some goals at the beginning of 2009, I didn’t pay much attention to them. In my last article, I share with you my insights to goals for me. This year, I really didn’t pay attention at all to what I wrote down The result at years end is that my income dropped off quite a bit. And I really need to focus in 2010 or else the income will drop further.

The reason for the drop is I’m trying to redesign myself with regards to work and income. Anyhoooow, with the exercise I did several months ago and now that I know I need to focus, I brought out the good ole “Goal Card”. The one the successful people always tell you to carry and look at every day several times a day.

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I’m at the brink of starting something new and different. It is something that would be business and income related. While I was looking through some old files aka junk in my computer, I came across some old goals (no longer junk but gems) I’ve written down way back in 1998. Yes, some of my files go back that long. I’ve switched computers several times and I do wonder how some stuff survive through all that.

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Anyhow, I have little text files from 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2008. The most recent one is a mindmap. Not sure what happen to those in years in between. I might have them written down on some of my notes in my old journal.

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