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Do you know why the windscreen is bigger than the rearview mirror?

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Because the way ahead is more important than the way you left behind

The year 2020 is fast approaching

Have you thought about what you would like to achieve next year?
Think (and record) the answer to 3 questions:
- What? (Intention)
- How much? (Proportion)
- When? (Time Bound)

Look at what you wrote and reflect on:

- What I want to achieve is realistic?
- Is my intention ambitious?

After elaborating these two questions for each objective you wish to achieve and making the appropriate changes it may be said that they are S.M.A.R.T.

In which areas did you set your goals?

Its development as a human being includes the following domains:
- Physicist
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Spiritual

Make sure you set your goals by considering these 4 domains

Make plans to achieve the goals you set for yourself

Now that you have your goals perfectly defined and the plans put in place to achieve them, it is important to check if the plans are being met.

Every month look at the plans you made

Make any changes or make adjustments as you see fit but
keep the goals you set

I wish your year 2020 to be full of achievements

 

 


Posted on: December 26, 2019 09:41 AM | Permalink

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Pravin Kumar Shrivastava Associate Vice President| Aithent Technologies Pvt Ltd Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Good to set the goals and targets for year.

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Alexandre Costa Scrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologies Loures, Portugal
Always thinking ahead, Probably I add also be persistent and never loose faith. We wiil have always the next year. Thanks for sharing your thougths.

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George Freeman Thought Leader | Author | Architect| Florida, United States
Hi Luis,

Happy to see your Blog in action! Great post.

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Ivan Moreira Program & Project Manager | Affidea Group Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
It is a very nice approach to exercising and make part of our daily behavior, doing that we’ll be able to better setup what we do with our precious time!
Awesome Luis!

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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Luis

Glad to see your first blog - Great content.
I wish you all the best in 2020 with your goals.

RK

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Daire Guiney Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Dear Luis,

Like all new years resolution they set of with the right intentions but unless you are a disciplined persons they usually fizzle out by the second half of the year. For me I pick one trait or characteristic about myself that I would to be better at and look at how I can go about improve upon it using limited resources of time and effort. For example, if I want to improve my ability to be a better listener, I may let others take the lead in meetings and asking and answering questions and see if a notice difference in my mannerisms. This approach can make changes obtainable.

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Lily Murariu Research Council Officer Program Advisor| National Research Council Canada Cantley, Quebec, Canada
Luis,
Thank you for bringing this topic at this time of the year. It is a great opportunity to reflect on 2019 and think to the next year. Setting for ourselves achievable, measurable, realistic goals and working towards achieving them is part of our professional approach in applying knowledge, experience and education to what matter most to us.
Let me wish you a great 2020, full of happiness, health, and joy!

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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Good first article, Luis! Couple of tips for turning goals into reality - write them down and tell someone!

Kiron

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Al Shalloway Founder and CEO| Success Engineering Edmonds, Wa, United States
Thanks for reminding us that our lives and our work spans multiple domains - all interconnected. All too often in our work we focus on only one aspect of things - but attending to
- Physicist
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Spiritual
both ties them togethern and creates more energy.
Was just sitting down to write some things about 2020 when this came by and it reminded me of some things to include.
thanks and have a great year.

This is a funny saying to attend to. Have a great year puts you in the drivers seat. It's an action. I'm not hoping a great year will happen to you - it is up to you to do it - to have it - so what are you going to do about it? :)

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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
Luis, congrats in your new blog. Keep posting and happy new year!

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Ricardo Cruz Manager| Closer Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Hi Luis,

nice post! Is always good to have this tips to help us at this time.
I usually add "for what?" as a question because help me to understand the really importance of each one, otherwise the list become very long. I wish you a great 2020!

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Ashutosh Trivedi Director - Delivery & Operations| AnakyticsFox Softwares Pvt. Ltd. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Hi Luis,

Amazing and true ... congrats for your first blog

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Tarik Chougua Project Manager| CEPEO Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Great first blog, congrats. I wish you a happy 2020 with lot of succes.

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Joao Sarmento Senior Project/Program Manager| UNITEL Luanda, Luanda, Angola
Congratulations on getting your blog working!
Loved the suggestions and I'm sitting down following your advice now :)

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Amany Nuseibeh Speaker, Global Leader | Optimal Consulting Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Congratulations on your first blog Luis. It's very timely and an excellent reminder of what to consider and how to consider it!
Wishing you a great 2020 full of passion and well-rounded ethical goals and achievements!

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Luis, very brilliant start keep going, just to add as you grow bigger you even don't need a rear mirror like driving a lorry (American 18 wheeler truck)

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Mohammed Muzaffer Senior Project Manager| Premier Technology Riyadh, Riyadh - P.O Box: 8096, Saudi Arabia
Great post Luis, very inspirational. I like your subject line (Do you know why the windscreen is bigger than the rearview mirror?).

Thank you.

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Fabio Rigamonti Project Director| Centric Software Milan, Italy
Love the analogy and thanks for the straightforward questions to help us having a fantastic 2020!

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Al Shalloway Founder and CEO| Success Engineering Edmonds, Wa, United States
There is another aspect to this blog I think worth pointing out.
Here's an old joke to set this up:

Theres an old joke about a person who has too much to drink staggering around under a lamp post. A policeman sees him and asks if hes ok.

The man says, Im ok, just looking for my car keys.
So the policeman starts helping him look so he can take the keys away.

After a while of not finding them, the policeman asks the man, Are you sure you dropped them here?

The man replies, No officer, I dropped them down that alley. Then why are we looking here? The light is better here.

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I find that we do this a lot in the Agile space - we look to where the light is better. Many in the Agile community discuss how things are difficult and how we can't predict things. I disagree. I believe the principles of Flow and Lean enable us to make pretty good deductions about what will happen if we take certain actions. And if they don't, good learning will occur in any event.

Imagine getting into a car where the rear view merror takes up 90% of the windshield. Seeing out the windshield now takes effort and is uncomfortable. But we don't mind using the rear view mirror. We're happy to go a little slower and look at the rear-view mirror because we can sit comfortably and use it. It only slows us down a bit and when hit things we say "oh, well Agile is difficult and we're in a complex system so things like this happen and in any event, we have to learn on our own".

The moral: what we want to make sure we do is look ahead, even if we're not given the windshield to begin with. We may have to do something to get it that way.

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RAJON BANERJEE Kalyani, District: Nadia, West Bengal, India
Hi Luis,

Excellent blog for strategic road map of vision 2020.

Thanks,
Rajon

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