This concept is an extension of my typical thoughts along the line of goal setting. I wrote down this inspiration on 4/10/07 so as not to forget and to help guarantee the article would get written. Why that is no accident.
You’ve read, or haven’t, some of the ideas here about goals and reaching goals through work or taking steps. The tallest mountain may be climbed in the smallest steps.
So I am having a conversation with Joe Middleton and I am telling him about how in this life, mine actually, very little that I have achieved did I achieve with a plan, with a purpose, with a goal. Still don’t.
As is with all of my articles there is no point, however, if I had a point, the point would be that most of what all of us achieve, measurable in terms of our cultures, are default achievements, not planned or pursued. This blatant generalization notwithstanding there are those of us that do plan and do achieve specific goals. I am not one of those.
I am the King of Accidental Achievement.