Personal growth: The best day of the week to accomplish goals November 1, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: accomplishing goals, goal setting, life, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, setting goals, the importance of today, writing
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It might be that certain days of the week are better than others for accomplishing specific self-actualization goals, but the reality is that the best day on the week for working on most goals is…
…the day we are living in right now, today.
Obviously it cannot be yesterday, yet how often we tend to revisit yesterday with “if only” or, “I should have.”
Intellectually we know we cannot change the past, but we still enjoy revisiting it.
And for procrastinators, among whom I include myself, tomorrow can be very appealing.
But, as Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Each of us knows all of this; we just need to remind ourselves of the true importance of today.
Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth: Too much thinking and not enough doing January 8, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development planning, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, setting goals, writing
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Although it’s generally a good idea not to jump into projects without giving them careful thought, it can be equally damaging to our self-development to over-study and miss opportunities for greater self-actualization by not taking timely action.
A similar, but slightly different variation of this problem can also occur in our efforts to develop our key long-term goals if we over-plan and under-act, thereby postponing doing the necessary goal-directed tasks.
As Shakespeare wrote in his play Julius Caesar:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
Sometimes planning can be more enjoyable and appealing to us than the harder work of doing.
— Dennis Mellersh
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