Remarkablogger

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be quoting a scraper ripping off my content and using a program to rearrange and substitute words (quite badly), but damn, this is funny stuff:

hit a accusal to make: I don’t hit goals.

Wait, what? How crapper I not hit goals and ease be doing so well? My RSS subscriber calculate grows regular (250 262 terminal instance I checked), my reciprocation is increasing, I intend blog consulting jobs, and I’m having a enthusiastic time.

I’m feat to verify how I do it in meet a minute, but before we intend into that, let’s speech most goals. It has been pounded into us that We Must Have Goals. Furthermore, these goals staleness be Specific. In fact, they staleness be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. Oooh… that sounds so awing in a activity meeting, doesn’t it?

What added hit we been fed most this?

* Break super goals downbound into manageable, small objectives
* Write our goals downbound to attain them specific
* Post them where we module wager them
* Read them to ourselves every day
* Tell them to added grouping as a effectuation of creating ethnic push to meet committed

BULLSHIT. At least, it’s feign for me. Whenever I hit proven to Be A Good Person and study whatever of the points above, I never seem to be healthy to follow to my goals. Most of the time, I can’t modify advert them after a while. If I hit to endeavor unskilled psychological tricks on myself that don’t modify work, then I’m apparently disagreeable to do something that doesn’t impact for me.

We wager blameable if we hit a hornlike instance with goals, as though we were weak-willed, or something. Well, you know, whatever grouping are meet different. One of the keys to success is lettered yourself, and I undergo that what entireness for whatever grouping doesn’t impact for me. And that effectuation it capableness not impact for you, either. Most grouping datum this module belike conceive I’m strange, and that’s fine. Some of you module wager meet the aforementioned way, however, and you module wager that I’m speech for you, that eventually someone understands.

So, to wage a disobedient saucer of analyse to every the happy-dappy goal-setting speech discover there, let’s verify a fireman countenance at the above points and do whatever myth-busting:
Break super goals downbound into governable objectives

The intent is that a content haw likewise bounteous to wager our artefact finished to its completion. It is so discouraging that we can’t amount discover how to modify begin. So, verify that large, bodacious content and invoke it into a cardinal lowercase ones. I can’t conceive of a meliorate artefact to attain a elevation discover of a molehill, crapper you? There’s added study for this, by the way: it’s titled send direction (and I should know, because I hit managed projects and taught it to hundreds of people). If you rattling poverty to wager aforementioned a content is impossible, go aweigh and invoke it into a duty itemize that’s fivesome miles long. No thanks!

When I read “We wager blameable if we hit a hornlike instance…” I just lost it.

Thank you, you idiot scraper, whoever you are, for making my day.

By the way, you know how I feel about scrapers? Bring ‘em on! They’re just more links, as far as I (and Google–you think the above is duplicate content? not on your life) am concerned. Hell, I’ll even link to it. Me, worry about scrapers? I can’t imagine a bigger waste of time.

Oh, one more thing: I’ve seen a lot of people bitching about scrapers, but they spell it wrong, which really blunts their whole point. It’s scraper, people, as in to scrape or remove forcefully, not scrapper, as in to scrap, or throw away junk. Get it right, will ya?

hilarious photo by James Ellsworth under CC License