What I learned today - about Scores, Targets, Comparisons, Goals & Strategies doesn't hold water.

Keeping score, in many cases, is a really bad idea – except when we are playing a game.  It means giving up arbitrary targets too.  Keeping score on relationships is toxic.  Keeping score in business is ok as long as it is something you can actually count except if you are comparing. 

Comparing ourselves to others – is always a bad idea. Comparison in general is best left to measuring objects and things not humans.  Leave it to science and get out of the comparison business (unless you are working in science).

Zapping bad habits is easiest when we are mindfully engaged with our everyday things.  The secret to willpower is physical exercise and what it does to the front part of the cerebral cortex when we regularly exercise.

Setting goals and objectives or setting resolutions or targets and tracking those is a waste of time, it disappoints, and it makes us liars and fools.  Instead set a broad intention and let the rest be your actions toward the intention without all the busy work of trying to track and document the minutae.  Be mindful instead and experience the journey with the intension firmly present.  When you select your intention, be sure it is broad enough to encompass everything you seek.  If you end up with more than one intention, perhaps step back and broaden the intension to swoop them up into a grand scheme so big it involves everything.

The whole idea of strategy in business is built around the false idea promoted by a Frenchman describing what Napolean was doing in battle.  The false part of that is that Napoleon simply set out to win battles and when he saw the opportunity he organized himself around winning.  He didn’t set the strategy first.  Military science then picked up the false idea and the idea then became a predominant aspect in business in the 20^th century.  Now whole businesses operate on building strategy first and then execution.  They forget to look and see if the battle is winnable and they miss the whole point of strategy.  No wonder so many goals and objectives get left in the archives unmet and so many people are unemployed.

Drink Lots of Fresh, Filtered Water.