Focus Focus!

I think it's time to get on with life and get back on the goal-setting path. Without the weight of Gap on my shoulders, weekends feel so long. I slept in for BOTH Saturday and Sunday, and felt so bad! Still reckon that I've got 18 months of lack of sleep to make up for :)

A friend of mine invited me to an Anthony Robbins seminar. Whilst I have not gone to any of his self-improvement seminars, I did shell out some money to attend one a year or so back. Man, was that an experience! I saw an exorcism with my own eyes :) But I digress...
I very much believe that goal-setting does help you in life. Having read the Stephen Covey books about putting important things first, I have a fear that I'm lacking direction without these goals. I need to start putting time in to dedicate to look a bit more to the future instead of what is happening in the next few days.
Where do I want to be? Where do I want to go? What do I want to have achieved?

An analogy (that I read): A lot of people hack away at the trees to clear a path for themselves, but never realise that they're in the wrong forest in the first place.

So where would I be in five years?
- Steady relationship (hey, it could happen! :P)
- Own a profitable company (go the Indo contacts)
- A high position within Lend Lease
- Still have a six-pack (it's an on-going bet with my sis that I'll lose it by the time I'm 30)
- Financially stable (there's a number in my mind that I had agreed with Jo....bloody looks pretty diffiuclt at the moment!)

Some goals within five years
- Worked in Asia (more Shanghai action)
- Did one Summer Camp in USA
- Skied overseas
- Fluent in Mandarin (and brushed up on Cantonese)
- If all goes well with the company, have a non-profit business that gives people opportunities to get ahead themselves.

But most of all, you have to enjoy the journey along the way. It's all about the number of stories that you can tell your kids when you're old!

Damn! nine cheap calls already:

What a subtle way to tell the world u have a 6 pack.

Enjoy the journey mate.
"The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
pskis - 17 September '03 - 16:06

It's my blog :P

Although at last check, it's not looking quite as good as in the heydays of 3rd year uni!
JookBoy - 17 September '03 - 16:52

Man, that's a lot of goals...but I have to admit, it's good to have goals; solid ones, as opposed to the "yeah, I wanna be rich and famous" ones.

Not that that wouldn't be nice, but...

However, you're right, focus is needed.

Being all action with no theory is just as bad as being all theory and no action.
bOGi - 17 September '03 - 18:06

Let me state here that (as BJee would say) any action is good action :P
JookBoy - 17 September '03 - 18:36

You got a 6pack? Maybe to get your number one on your 'where I want to be in five years' list you should start flashing that 6pac of yours more. In fact, to incorporate all of your goals together, you should design a fitness machine that you can sell (there's your profitable company), use it to get/keep your 6pack, get on tv to do those late nite ads and then get recognised as a buff fitness dude, which is sure to get you the ladies (and hopefully a stable relationship) and then start tae boesque training classes for the rich and famous (which will be your stable income.) Then start selling your product in asia, incorporating into your design the ergonomics of your typical asian male and female. This will eventually lead you to Shanghai (obviously the fitness epicentre of asia) where you will have to learn mandarin to make television ads to sell your KEVPRO3000 (it works your upper abs, lower abs, obliques and even connects to the internet so you can surf the information highway at the same time.) And now that you're a famous fitness celebrity, you can start doing fitness camps in the USA, and you'll even have your own television show, with a special episode shot entirely in the swiss alps (entitled 'my alps are bigger than yours' or something equally cheesy. And you can even have snowmen littered through the set with like, rock hard abs carved out of their bellies.) Using your celebrity status, you could then start up a 'fitness for the youth' campaign that promotes fitness in young people by highlighting and rewarding up and coming young athletes... And finally, (you thought i forgot this one) you could be Lend Leases fitness consultant, working on company health and moral (though i don't know if that would mean you woud be in a higher position that you are now.)

take matters into your own hands and change your life, like me, Andre Robbins!!!!
(to buy Andre Robbins tapes please send a cheque or money order to thisisnottonyrobbins inc. or call 1800 6pack)
Andre Robbins - 18 September '03 - 00:34

"My alps are bigger than yours"....
Quality comment dude :)
JookBoy - 18 September '03 - 08:55

Hmm I dunno about these Robbins things, it seems like his seminars are just about convincing everyone to shell out $$$ for more seminars!
al (email) - 22 September '03 - 22:22

i remember a conversation from a couple of years back where you said your long term goal was to become a dirty old man.

btw kev, youve been linked!
xtn - 23 September '03 - 10:14

What the..?
I swearz officer I have said no such thing! Maybe something about "ho-asis" hehe

Linked back to ya :)
JookBoy - 23 September '03 - 11:44