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August 24, 2009

Do You Tune Your Goals to Get Maximum Opportunity Attraction?

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:20 am

You Don’t Need Luck

My blog and my business changed when I wrote my blogging goal. Thing is I should have known that. Setting goals is one of those life lessons that I keep learning over again.

Sometime in college, I figured out that whenever I made a goal that was tuned tightly to who I am and what I do well, it easily became a catalytic action. Goals became my way of saying …

I don’t need luck, if I can make things happen.

What I realized was that goal set As Antoine de Saint-Exupery said …

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Every successful and outstanding business, every well-conceived campaign or action becomes an opportunity magnet with goals that are

(skills x passion) + problem solving = opportunity magnet

For a goal to be an opportunity magnet, it’s got to have some actionable attraction. Great goals use what’s uniquely our own — the strength of skills, the leverage of our situation, and the momentum of our passion.

Do you tune your goals to get maximum opportunity attraction?

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–ME “Liz” Strauss
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9 Comments to “Do You Tune Your Goals to Get Maximum Opportunity Attraction?”

  1. August 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
    Jamkeng said

    i believe i’m luck but i need a motivation to do something and i have got in this article:)

  2. August 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
    Todd Smith said

    good timing, Liz. I’m starting bring it all together and make my business really work. Your reminder to keep it real is just what I needed to hear. I’m putting more details on my plan as we speak. thanks.

  3. August 25th, 2009 at 7:42 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Todd,
    It’s great when the focus becomes self-expressed. I can see that through your blog and through your comments. Are you finding that what you doing is more natural and easier to talk about?

  4. August 25th, 2009 at 10:12 am
    Christa M. Miller said

    I thought I had a goal but after I read this (and Angela’s post today), I revised it. :) How often do you find you have to revise goals, and what do you find triggers it? Internal or external factors, or a mix… and to what extent (subtle, major)?

  5. August 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am
    Todd Smith said

    Hi Liz, Yes, you are right, there is less of a gap between what I think and what I say and do. I think this the “be authentic” quality you always emphasize.

    PS. I love watching your business expand on that solid ground of authenticity.

  6. August 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Christa,
    Every now and then I wake realizing that something has pulled me off my path and I need to get back to it. Keep your goals starting from inside you. That’s the only piece of the dynamic that won’t change.

    Every time I find myself revising my goals (I revisit them about 3 times a year) I’m putting them back to where I had them … like some goal thermostat. heh heh

  7. August 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Todd,
    I love watching the same thing happen with you. Can’t wait to meet you in person!

  8. August 25th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
    Todd Smith said

    Thanks, Liz. You are very sweet. You already know that I love hanging around here. I can’t wait to meet you too.

  9. August 25th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Todd,
    We’ just got to coordinate our schedules better. heh!

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