Remember help: Headstones or Milestones? - Help.com

Headstones or Milestones?

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. ” (R. Bach)

~ Headstones or Milestones? ~

What was the last success that you experienced? Come on think back … can you remember? Was it graduating with your advanced degree? Was it landing that primo job? Was it your wedding? What?! you don’t really know what you’d call your last success?

That’s kind of OK, because you are not really alone. 95% to 97% of people do not have written goals. Not having written goals is sure death on the path of success. You can count headstones instead of milestones. If you don’t have a goal, you don’t have a plan, and if you don’t have a plan, you don’t have any milestones. If you don’t have any milestones, then it’s no surprise that you cannot remember your last success! Because that is exactly what a milestone is… a success and measurement of where you are in your plan to achieve your goal. My last success was putting together my website. My next success is to learn more about Marketing, and obtain my advanced degree.

Do you have to obtain your milestones all by yourself in order to be successful? Hell NO! Get all the help you can. You are not in this world all by yourself. You have to give and receive help every day of your life. Opt for win win situations. If you do that, if everyone around you is winning, your milestones will fly by, and the only reason you wouldn’t remember your last success, is because there’d be too many of them!

I was reminded of an old saying the other day; “The only institution that resists change is the Cemetery”. How true is that?! So set your goal… make your plan… and turn your headstones into milestones.

Bright blessings ~ Richard

This closed post was written 3 months, 3 weeks ago | V/U/S: 256, 19, 5 | Edit Post | Report Post

Milestone, Plan, degree, goal, Win, Remember, success, Headstones (How Tags Affect Reciprocity)

Dreamer-Eliewved 164 #
Cornsay, D8, GB | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (30 minutes after post)

erm…not being rude but whats the actual question here?

erm...not being rude but whats the actual question here?

Help me with: I want to write something.

okei! 6 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (31 minutes after post)

so true. thanks for reminding me that. these past few months were the hardest, because i had already achieved what i wanted in my life, took me six years to achieve it. i was happy initially, but later on w/o any clearcut goal/ dream/ ambition, i felt bored, lost and unmotivated.

jenna, this is simply a reminder, a simple yet profound reminder in our lives.

so true. thanks for reminding me that. these past few months were the hardest, because i had already achieved what i wanted in my life, took me six years to achieve it. i was happy initially, but later on w/o any clearcut goal/ dream/ ambition, i felt bored, lost and unmotivated. jenna, this is simply a reminder, a simple yet profound reminder in our lives.

Help me with: Closing Cycles.

Dreamer-Eliewved 164 #
Cornsay, D8, GB | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (34 minutes after post)

hmm…

hmm...

Help me with: I want to write something.

Richard cor de lyon 96 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (41 minutes after post)

Thanks dcb for that reminder. Without a goal, or inspiring dream to move forward to a feeling of being resigned or boredom EASILY kicks in. If we have the feeling of just drifting we have to look to our goals, and plan.

Also, I’d like to add I found this software designed for organizing your thoughts… I think it’s great! You start of just kind of brainstorming… adding little thought clouds on the screen… connecting them with lines as they become related… then with a click of a button, you have a full fledged outline. It’s great for writers, but it works great for setting your goal, and developing a plan too!

Sorry for the confusion Jenna… no help needed on this on… just seeing if I could help anyone else.

Thanks dcb for that reminder. Without a goal, or inspiring dream to move forward to a feeling of being resigned or boredom EASILY kicks in. If we have the feeling of just drifting we have to look to our goals, and plan. Also, I'd like to add I found this software designed for organizing your thoughts... I think it's great! You start of just kind of brainstorming... adding little thought clouds on the screen... connecting them with lines as they become related... then with a click of a button, you have a full fledged outline. It's great for writers, but it works great for setting your goal, and developing a plan too! Sorry for the confusion Jenna... no help needed on this on... just seeing if I could help anyone else.

Help me with: Are you wearing your Ruby Slippers?

danbo513 18 #
Milwaukee, WI, US | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 6 minutes after post)

thanks again richard, great post.

thanks again richard, great post.

ɐʇɐɯɹǝɟ.Suc 97 #
Luton, I1, GB | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

jenna_jag wrote:
erm…not being rude but whats the actual question here?

lots of his posts arent questions, more advice

[quote jenna_jag]erm...not being rude but whats the actual question here?[/quote] lots of his posts arent questions, more advice

Help me with: I can feel it clinging onto me like a leech…

danbo513 18 #
Milwaukee, WI, US | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 8 minutes after post)

exactly, these posts are aimed at helping people.

(1)

exactly, these posts are aimed at helping people.

►Shizuko-Sophie◄ 129 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 39 minutes after post)

Richards post are made to make you think aboutt your self and you way in life….they are great.

Richards post are made to make you think aboutt your self and you way in life....they are great.

Help me with: How are you in the morning…

►Shizuko-Sophie◄ 129 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 40 minutes after post)

I would like to point out that setting milestone need not be as big and ambitious as those that Richard has achieved so well, but can also for many be as simple as doing the daily shopping.

Depression for example can leave the mind in such a confused state that setting these milestones that we all do so well and don’t even think about can be such an achievement. It can become not a way of life, but a way of survival.

I would like to point out that setting milestone need not be as big and ambitious as those that Richard has achieved so well, but can also for many be as simple as doing the daily shopping. Depression for example can leave the mind in such a confused state that setting these milestones that we all do so well and don’t even think about can be such an achievement. It can become not a way of life, but a way of survival.

Help me with: How are you in the morning…

Richard cor de lyon 96 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 55 minutes after post)

thank you Suc and Danbo I really appreciate your replies..

wow… Sophie! Excellent point, thank you for bringing it up. Life is a relative sort of thing. Sometimes getting to the store IS a BIG milestone to be proud of :), great reply thanks :)

thank you Suc and Danbo I really appreciate your replies.. wow... Sophie! Excellent point, thank you for bringing it up. Life is a relative sort of thing. Sometimes getting to the store IS a BIG milestone to be proud of :), great reply thanks :)

Help me with: Are you wearing your Ruby Slippers?

Michael Leibman 241 #
Littleton, CO, US | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (2 hours, 25 minutes after post)

Richard cor de lyon wrote:
Also, I’d like to add I found this software designed for organizing your thoughts… I think it’s great! You start of just kind of brainstorming… adding little thought clouds on the screen… connecting them with lines as they become related… then with a click of a button, you have a full fledged outline. It’s great for writers, but it works great for setting your goal, and developing a plan too!

I’ve always been fascinated by programs like that. Therapsis has an interesting post on a simple visual thought presentation: http://help.com/post/172139-self-graph

[quote Richard cor de lyon]Also, I'd like to add I found this software designed for organizing your thoughts... I think it's great! You start of just kind of brainstorming... adding little thought clouds on the screen... connecting them with lines as they become related... then with a click of a button, you have a full fledged outline. It's great for writers, but it works great for setting your goal, and developing a plan too![/quote] I've always been fascinated by programs like that. Therapsis has an interesting post on a simple visual thought presentation: http://help.com/post/172139-self-graph

Help me with: “helping helps everybody, helper and helped alike.”

Ell♥ 207 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (2 hours, 27 minutes after post)

I got a payrise yesterday at work :D

I got a payrise yesterday at work :D

Help me with: What makes you happy?

►Shizuko-Sophie◄ 129 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (2 hours, 32 minutes after post)

Drinks all round on Raver

Drinks all round on Raver

Help me with: How are you in the morning…

danbo513 18 #
Milwaukee, WI, US | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (3 hours, 8 minutes after post)

WoooHooo !! sophie is buying !!

WoooHooo !! sophie is buying !!

Ell♥ 207 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (3 hours, 38 minutes after post)

-Sophie- wrote:
Drinks all round on Raver

lol. if you all come to england. I will buy you a drink.

[quote -Sophie-]Drinks all round on Raver[/quote] lol. if you all come to england. I will buy you a drink.

Help me with: What makes you happy?

Richard cor de lyon 96 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (4 hours, 52 minutes after post)

I forgot to add the link to the Inspiration software… http://www.inspiration.com/

it’s pretty cool.

I forgot to add the link to the Inspiration software... http://www.inspiration.com/ it's pretty cool.

Help me with: Are you wearing your Ruby Slippers?

ɐʇɐɯɹǝɟ.Suc 97 #
Luton, I1, GB | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (7 hours, 36 minutes after post)

or go to america, cheaper drinks

or go to america, cheaper drinks

Help me with: I can feel it clinging onto me like a leech…

This post has been closed, no more replies. Thanks!

Seeing as this post is closed, no invites are allowed.