After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.
I should have zipped it back in November…
One of these days, I’ll write a blog post about what happened when I gave NaNoWriMo a shot.
Damn! I did it again and expressed a goal out loud! Now I’ll never write that blog post!
Under promise over deliver!
@CFD: Trop, trop vrai… ;)
This is why I have to stop writing about goals to lose weight. Each time I do, I give it up within a week.
Thanks for posting that. I think I needed it.
Completely agree. I know abandoned a lot of things I wish I hadn’t halfway through because I didn’t zip it before I finished it.