Even though it’s already next year in most of the world, it’s still 2008 here in SF, and a good time to reflect on the past year.
I started the year with a mega-goals list. About 120 or so items. Those 120 goals included items that had 3, 5 and 10-year timelines attached to them, so if we cut it back… 40 or so of my beginning-2008 goals had a 1-year timeline fixed to them. I hit about 20 of them. Strangely enough, most of them centred around two areas of my life, while the other two were neglected.
For 2009, I’m doing something different. I’m only setting 5 goals. I’ve cleared my list of everything else, these 5 things are to be the most important things in my life for the next 12 months.
The reasoning behind this is a result of actually listening to the people around me and observing what they do, and from trying an experiment in living in balance that did not work out the way it was supposed to.
The past year has shown me that living in balance delivers you mediocre results at best – you get small, slow, incremental progress in all areas of your life. This is fine for living a slow and comfortable life… but I believe that you want outstanding results, you need to do something extreme.
Tony Robbins has said it, and high achievers do it everyday – they dedicate their lives, time and energy towards a singular extraordinary goal and they get there.
So that’s my plan for 2009 – to achieve 5 extraordinary goals, rather than 20 mediocre ones.
Wish me luck 
And Happy New Year!
- Aaron P
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Hey Aaron!! Great post; I agree with you just try not to do anything extreme out of impulse that’s what I did for most of 08 and sure didn’t work too well, anyway man great I found your blog, I ‘ll starting one myself soon….