I made a dream list recently as part of an exercise and found that the target number of items matters a lot, with some conditions. The Beyond Goals Intensive (share/'affiliate' link) in the provided prep materials has an exercise about coming up with a list of things
In thinking about some goals I've started and abandoned, I notice a few patterns: They're too broad, consequently only weakly grounded in things I care about, and represent overcommitting. I'm going to illustrate this with some real examples, lightly scrubbing out details where they
(complaining-ish, attempting to troubleshoot) I've started a few long post drafts on various topics. I haven't finished them. I still think they're interesting topics, but some are too broad. Like: "Analog: A Hate Story." Great topic, too much one could say about
I memorize and keep a bunch of knowledge and skills that I probably won't ever need to know. Like: Basic Spanish reading/writing. Basic Esperanto reading/writing. Random interesting facts from history classes I've taken. Meanings of unusual words (sericeous, eyot, gravid). I have never needed
(Mad libs on a distinction I got from somewhere else. Maybe here though I can't find it when I search for both terms together. I'm interested in whether this is accurate to the original definition, but I can't find that original to compare against.