i’m drinking twice as much.
Was aiming for 3 times as much
No, coronavirus should change its goals due to me.
Re: Your goal to raise $10. Million.
Were you planning to do this as an IPO?
(Initial Public Offering)?
Sounds very exciting. Perhaps you have your own business idea, or you are considering taking on a franchise.
Some areas of retail are going to be reshaped by the COVID effect, especially if centered around perishable products.
My goals are much smaller, more pedestrian and less exciting.
I haven’t been on a plane in years. I’m waiting to see what sort of routine a typical passenger should expect.
I’ll want to go from California to Michigan and back again.
I would suspect we will need less TSA’s standing around, since their may be less people in line at once.
I will bet there will be less tolerance for bringing Companion Animals on board. People were already getting fed up sharing a packed plane interior with the dogs, cats, mini-horses and pot bellied pigs.
My goal is to be cancer free. I’m still waiting for my dr to re-open. I think my cancer is back. I was so done with all this corona crap months ago.
Nah. My motto is, “It’ll get done when it gets done.”
Not so much change but add 1 goal.
#1 Survive Coronavirus.
I am a real estate investor, now retired, but looking for a piece of land right now, because, why not. I had written goals that I rewrote (1 year goals) or reviewed (5 - 10+ year goals) every January.
Anything shorter than a year wasn’t a goal, it was an action plan for reaching the longer term goal. A goal usually required multiple action plans.
I was amazed at how I would write a goal, look at it and think, “you’ll never pull that off”, and at the end of the term, there it would be, not met but exceeded. Goals can be anything, it’s not just about money, it’s about the life you want to lead. Plan it and live it.
Massaging or adjusting goals is wise when Black Swan events appear, like this one. Roll with reality’s punch and plan the way forward.
It is partly a matter of maintaining the right perspective. Im doing a lot of genealogical research during the lockdown and always enjoy reading my great grandfathers story. In 1899, he moved his young family from North Rhine-Westphalia 700 miles east to Danzig (now Gdansk). He spent 40 years raising the family, acquiring property, founding the only battery manufacturing business in Danzig, growing it, and becoming influential in the community.
Then WW II started three miles from their house on the Westerplatte Peninsula on Sept 1, 1939. In late 1944, the Soviets were marching westward and Germans in the East were fleeing west. My great grandparents stayed until they were evicted by the Soviet Communists and left with only the clothes on their backs. The communists appropriated the entire family fortune which was quite sizable. After a five month journey (mostly walking) they got back to the hometown they had left 46 years earlier.
My great grandfather was 80 years old when he made that trek. He lived penniless for another five years and died the year before I was born.
So, yes, COVID and the now-ridiculous government lockdown is ruining a lot of lives. Thank God it is nothing like the horrible calamities that befell so many of our ancestors.
LOL! The only thing I’ve changed is not being able to get a haircut when I want one. But Andy Cuomo and Bill de Blasio seem to have been able to have access to a barber/stylist during their lockdown.
I am head of a small non-profit volunteer organization. When COVID-19 hit, we had to cancel our big fundraiser. I challenged the board to use this time to move forward in new ways that would make us stronger in the long run. So far everyone is energized and we are accomplishing thing we never dreamed of before. It has been an amazing experience.
Say you make some goals.
travel
putting on an event (concert, carnival, art show, lecture...)
Opening a business
Bringing a product to market
Learning a new trade like being a barber or bartender (hair always grows and even in tough times people drink)
With overreaching governments at nearly all levels shutting things down you will lose your shirt at random panic.
Why bother?
Is this COVID-19 the same as the Chinese Virus?
My goal now is to move away from California.
bkmk
Yes. New goal: Look for real estate in Belize.