SubscribePlan Your Life In Steps of 100 Days to Achieve Your Goals
Published by cornelius on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship.I think it is common sense that it is helpful to write down your own future goals and plans from time to time. Why that? It helps you to keep on track with the things that you value and that are important for you. Of course, setting the RIGHT goals with accuracy is hard but should be the focus. There is nothing worse than badly specified goals. A 100 days plan gives you some critical feedback about the things and events that happened in this period. Sure, if you want to use 90 days feel free to do so, but with 100 days you are crossing the border of thinking in months.
Some days ago it was time for me to review the last 100 days and set some new goals. Often you think a 100 days period it just too short and not much will happen. A lot happened in my life, mostly connected with my exchange year but despite that there is always change going on. Let’s see, today is October 8th, so what occured after June 30th 2007?
In this time I created this blog and wrote my first entry, I was still a student at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Everything was perfect and a fun time with a lot of freedom. I went to one of the most beautiful canoe tours ever, wrote my Ruby on Rails in Academia paper, saw a presentation held by Richard Stallman (founder of the Free Software Foundation), did my first steps in programming with Ruby, had one of the hardest CS assignments ever, went on holiday with my Dad and my brother to Vancouver, Banf and Jasper National Parks, met a cool guy whose startup is really exciting (we are still in contact from time to time), had some amazing farewell parties (the days afterwards have been really sad), met again my old US roommate with whom I work currently on a promising startup project, met many old school friends in my hometown I haven’t meet for a long time, attended the StartupWeekend in Hamburg, Germany and met so many young (aspiring) entrepreneurs, joined the entrepreneurial Thinc! student initiative, and after 8 weeks back in Germany I am just getting used to everything. There have also been some sad personal stories not belonging inside the blog.
That’s a long list and luckily I track from time to time the daily happenings otherwise it would be hard to remember everything. I accomplished most of the goals I set in my 100 days plan but some seem really unambitious and unimportant from today’s perspective. The whole planning and setting the right goals is a process that needs adaption. 100 days from now? January 16th 2008, exams for my courses are finished and I have a 7 weeks period where I can do whatever I want. Hopefully it works out to make some real progress with the startup and combine it with traveling. Goals set.
Short story long, I can highly recommend setting the right goals in 100 days intervals. It is a great way of reviewing things that happened and thinking about the coming month.
Writing down life time and childhood goals is something completely different. Just as a side note, if you want to see an awe-inspiring presentation, watch the presentation “Really Achieving Your Childhood Goals” by the pancreatic cancer diagnosed Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch. One of the seldom things you experience which can change your life immediately. I should watch it every 100 days. The fundamentals, the fundamentals, you have to get the fundamentals right!
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October 9th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Figuring out 100 days ago and from now with Ruby:
>> 100.days.ago.to_s(:long)
=> “June 30, 2007 23:33″
>> 100.days.from_now.to_s(:long)
=> “January 16, 2008 22:58″