Having A Theme Is Fun & Re-Enforces Your Goals

I recently attended a business presentation on goal setting and execution. It was given by Patrick Thean of Gazelles.com.  A great tip Patrick shared was to break the year up into quarters and have one overriding goal for each quarter. He further recommended to create a theme for the quarter which matches your goal.

You may recall that a recently wrote a post titled “Up, Up And Away!” where I discuss our recent initiative to upgrade our technology.  Our goal for this quarter is to integrate the new systems by the end of this year and our them is “Into the clouds”.

I therefore went out of my way to locate balloons shaped like clouds. After searching online, I settled on balloons which said “I love cloud” and wrote by hand “computing”. I bought three of them and put them out in our office.

The balloons are supposed to be visual reminders of our quarterly goal and provide a fun way to remind our team of the importance of this initiative.

What is your goal for the quarter and can you make a fun theme around it?

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New England Traffic Control Device

Only in New England will you find a traffic control device which uses the word wicked.

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I’m no golfer but …

My best golf shot ever!

I enjoy playing golf.  It’s great to be outside for an extended period with good friends in a relaxing environment.  Even if I am stressed, golf forces me to relax in order to play better.  It’s a great panacea.

The problem is that with 3 kids and a wife, it’s hard to justify taking 5-6 hours out of a weekend to hit the links.  And, of course, during the week, I am busy helping people make their legal problems simpler and easier.

I therefore only hit the links 5 or 6 times a year and, as a result, my game doesn’t improve very much.  Nevertheless, a few days ago I took a rare day off to play in an outing at the Lido Beach golf course.  It’s a public course in Long Beach, NY, right on the water with some spectacular views.

Anyway, on a par 3, 175 yard hole, I hit the best golf shot of my life.  Using a 5 iron, I hit a perfect drive right at the pin.  It landed about 5 feet from the hole and rolled right toward it!!!  The shot came 2 feet short of falling in.  Adding to the excitement was the fact that four of my other friends who had just finished this hole (along with my foursome) witnessed my great feat.

Anyway, above is a photo of where my shot landed winning me “closest to the pin” honors.

And, oh by the way, I did make the shot for the birdie.

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