{"id":38,"date":"2006-08-19T02:30:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-08-19T02:36:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T09:36:25","slug":"goal-write-it-or-write-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2006\/08\/19\/goal-write-it-or-write-it-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal: Write it down or write it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice when others agree. Darren Rowse has a post on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/how-to-achieve-your-goals-hint-1\/\">ProBlogger<\/a> about the importance of keeping a written record of your goal (and, I would add, each day&#8217;s success or failure). He has a nice quotation from a book he&#8217;s reading,<em> Leverage: How to Create Your Own &#8216;Tipping Points&#8217; in Business and in Life<\/em>, by Darby Checketts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only goal setters who are goal writers are truly goal achievers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes indeed. Students who want to create a new habit must set a goal and keep a daily written record of their goal-setting activities. What&#8217;s the Number 1 reason my students fail to achieve a goal? They don&#8217;t keep a written record.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com\/blog\/?p=14%22\">How to Define a Goal<\/a>, an excerpt from<em> Good Habits, Good Students<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice when others agree. Darren Rowse has a post on ProBlogger about the importance of keeping a written record of your goal (and, I would add, each day&#8217;s success or failure). He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setting-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}