Goal setting & failing

In the beginning of 2010 I sat down and wrote our my goals for that year.  And taped them to the wall next to my desk.  I didn’t look at them every day, but any time I wondered what was next I looked at the list of seven items.  I can honestly say that by the time the year was out I had only achieved two.  But the work I had done in 2010 led me to accomplish two of the biggest goals on that list by May of 2011. On stands now is the May issue of Inc. Magazine …

Before and After, Happy & Sad

I heard once that people mostly judge times in “before and after.”  As in “before I graduated high school” or “after I got married.”   We remember our lives as these chunks of time.  I think we do it because it’s easy to mark time by these major moments.  I have never thought “after I bought that shirt.”  It is always major life events.  In the very end of 2010 I had two such events…well I had one and only time will tell about the other. In October I went to New York for an event called NYC Fotoworks.  Basically what …