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The Unexpected Exceeds Expectations

I have been on the road for 3 weeks and am now back in Boston for 10 days before hitting the road again. The tour has been great fun so far! I want to share with you a recent experience from my travels. On the morning of Friday, January 20th, I drove 9 hours from […]

January 24th – the Most Depressing Day?

A British psychologist calculates January 24th to be the most depressing day of the year. One of the reasons has to do with failed resolutions. “The majority of people break their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year, and even the hangers-on have fallen off the wagon, torn off the nicotine patches […]

Business Week featuring Goal-Free Living

BusinessWeek.com has a new quiz entitled, “Ready to Start a Business?” Depending on your score, you might find that Goal-Free Living is the solution. Take this quiz and see if the time is right for you to start making your vision a reality So you dream of quitting your job and building a business from […]

Funny Email

Here’s an email I received last night… I just got your book yesterday and started reading it. My 7 year old 1st grader came over and slowly spelled out the title: goal-free-li-ving. He then remarked “I didn’t know there was a book about our soccer team!???” – his poor team hasn’t scored one single goal […]

Letters to the Editor — O Magazine

The response to the O, The Oprah Magazine article about Goal-Free Living (written by Dawn Raffel, Executive Articles Editor for the magazine) was overwhelming. Several of the letters to the editor were shared with me. All were incredibly inspiring. In this month’s O, they published one of those letters. Enjoy. My love for O was […]

Return of the Goalaholic

This past week was quite interesting. The Goal-Free Living book officially launched. I started the “Goal-Freedom” tour with several speeches and radio interviews in the New York City area. And we did an email blast to increase awareness of the book to a massive audience. Although I’d like to claim I was 100% goal-free during […]

Goal-Free Partying

I’ve applied the goal-free concept to nearly every aspect of my life. Admittedly, I never thought to apply it to parties. But a friend of mine wrote me with her experience with a recent party she threw. Ah, it’s amazing how even when doing something that is supposed to be fun, we can turn it […]

Goal-Free on TomPeters.com

Today, I am honoroed to become one of Tom Peters’s “cool friends. ” With this, Goal-Free Living is featured on TomPeters.com. Tom is one of the long-time gurus in the business world, known for numerous books fromIn Search of Excellence (1982) to Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age (2003)

What's Your Theme For the Next Year?

In an earlier blog post, I discussed setting aspiration-based themes rather than goal-based resolutions. What is your theme for the next year? In 2006, mine was “impact” — making a difference in the world. Friends of mine had generosity, partnership, grace, health, “me”, new beginnings, adventure, and unpredictability. Please post your theme as a comment. […]