METHODOLOGY all things smart
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Dear fellow turkey,
A SMART goal is Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-bound.
You do have goals. Don’t you?
I was taught eons ago SPIRO Specific, Personal, Intrinsically rewarding, Realizable, and Objective.
Whatever mnemonic you use, (and I’d like to hear them), use one!
You need to have things like this, lest you go off spinning your wheels on activities that are exemplars of the The Peter Principle’s activity trap. You know, when you’re doing lots of STUFF but making no progress. I would assert that for seekers the activity trap is deadly. Unless you can be like Edison (“I haven’t failed. I now know 1500 ways not to make a light bulb.”), “no progress” is worse than it sounds. You’re losing time. All the while your burn rate is depleting your store of cash reserves. If you’re not earnin, you’re burnin.
In the IT world, where I grew up, projects and activities and processes and all sorts of stuff take on a life of their own. Searching internet job sites is wonderful BUT only as it pertains to your overall METHODOLODY, STRATEGIES, TACTICS, and TOOLS. Otherwise I’d rather you just played FREECELL (I have gone 292 games without a loss), at least you wouldn’t be fooling yourself about what you are accomplishing.
FWIW, your mileage may vary, all free advice is just that,
Fjohn
yet another fellow turkey
just bigger and dumber
Reinke Faces Life 