MEANINGLESS GOALS

MEANINGLESS GOALS

A farmer had a dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the road, barking and trying to overtake it. One day a neighbor asked the farmer "Do you think your dog is ever going to catch a car?" The farmer replied, "That is not what bothers me. What bothers me is what he would do if he ever caught one." Many people in life behave like that dog who is pursuing meaningless goals.

SMART Goals

If you ask most people what is their one major objective in life, they would probably give you a vague answer, such as, "I want to be successful, be happy, make a good living," and that is it. They are all wishes and none of them are clear goals.

Goals must be SMART:

1. S--specific. For example, "I want to lose weight." This is wishful thinking. It becomes a goal when I pin myself down to "I will lose 10 pounds in 90 days."

2. M--must be measurable. If we cannot measure it, we cannot accomplish it. Measurement is a way of monitoring our progress.

3. A--must be achievable. Achievable means that it should be out of reach enough to be challenging but it should not be out of sight, otherwise it becomes disheartening.

4. R--realistic. A person who wants to lose 50 pounds in~30 days is being unrealistic.

5. T--time-bound. There should be a starting date and a finishing date.

IT IS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE

There was a man taking a morning walk on the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly. Right behind him there was another person who couldn't understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, "What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?" This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, "It makes a difference to this one."

The TOP 10 Little known facts about Steve jobs

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Steve Jobs, who is deeply spiritual, wanted to study and experience spiritualism and existentialism in India. He wanted to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram. He set out to India in 1974 along with his best friend from REED, Dan Kottke. On reaching India, they learnt that the man they were looking for had died.

9

Steve on his return to Apple in 1996 was feared in the company for his now infamous elevator brief ups and subsequent firings of low performing employees.

8

Steve commands a salary of just $1; he is estimated to be worth over $5.4 Billion

7

When Apple II, launched with the most innovative GUI of the time, Steve aged 25, became one of the youngest millionaires of his time

6

Steve Jobs is a Buddhist and a vegetarian.

5

Steve like his rival Bill Gates was once known to be arrogant and commanding, and was even called a leading Egomaniac by Fortune magazine. After which he was thrown out of Apple in his 30s, he later found that parenthood calmed him into being wiser with life.

4

Atari was making a game called Breakout, which was released in 1976 at that time Steve Wozniak was a 25-year-old and Jobs was just 20. Atari had offered US$100 for each chip that was reduced in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given them US$600 (instead of the actual US$5000) and that Wozniak's share was thus US$300.

3

Steve Jobs had dropped out of college but he continued attending calligraphy classes at Reed, He is noted to have said, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,"

2

Steve Jobs was the first-born child of Joanne Carole Schieble and a Syrian father Abdulfattah Jandali, He was adopted by Clara, and Paul Jobs, a middle-class American couple who struggled to make ends meet. Steve is very annoyed when they are addressed as his adoptive parents, he refutes by saying "They were my parents"

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Steve Jobs did not know he had a sister from his actual parents until he was an adult even though they both grew up in California. His sister is Mona Simpson, an accomplished novelist and essayist. Through his sister, Steve even located his mother Joanne Simpson, after which he always included her in family gatherings or important events.

When asked whom he admired the most as CEO Bill Gates said, "In terms of an inspirational leader, Steve Jobs is really the best I have ever met.