Oh, hi friends!
Mmmm.
March.
This is a semi-embarrassing admission, but —
Well, first, let me ask you: Do you set big, audacious goals?
What a question, right.
And here's the semi-embarrassing admission…I don't. Not usually.
There's a lot of creative percolating. Igniting, starting, boiling, striving.
But big, audacious goals scare the seaweed outta me.
They're so concrete.
I'm going to do XXX by YYY.
And then actually do it.
Maybe it's the boundary that's scary.
Maybe it's the choosing.
Maybe it's the possibility that if you speak it, you're conjuring up the possibility of its opposite (failure, yes, that).
But on the rare occasion a big, audacious goal does come my way, many positive things happen.
Life rearranges to make a suitable habitat for the goal.
Good stuff arrives. Project-related stuff, but also life stuff, adjacent-work stuff.
You start to glow with a goal.
And grow.
You’re a little glow worm. Grow worm. Growth worm.
And so I guess I'm saying is Mmmmarch First is a swell time to set a big, audacious goal. We've got snow falling on top of green spring shoots, we've got a properly sized month on the horizon, we've got verve, we've got fire, we've got fizz, and we're shaking off the cloak of February to go, go, go, and march, march, march.
What is your one big, audacious goal?
Does it make you nervous?
Good. I'm glad.
Today is the perfect day to begin.
…..wait a second, sorry, me again.
I actually wrote this and felt great about telling you to declare a big, audacious goal, and conveniently evaded declaring one of my own, even in my head.
That’s how tricky these goals are.
We think we’re declaring when really we’re dancing.
So I took a moment and actually thought about it and there.
Now it is stated (on a notecard on my desk).
I hope you’re able to do the same — and let me know how it goes.