Don Miller on living good stories
In his latest blog entry, Don Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years) suggests an alternative to new year’s resolutions:
I’ve written my goals for the year: to eat healthy and exercise, to pay down my home, and to dig deeper into the friendships I already have. Those are great ambitions, but the truth is they aren’t enough. People who set goals like this almost never achieve them. But it’s not because they lack the resolve. It’s because their goals aren’t embedded in the context of a narrative …
I don’t have any problem with goals. I like goals and still set them. But without an overarching plot, goals don’t make sense and are hard to achieve. A story gives a goal a narrative context that forces you to engage and follow through. People who are in great shape and have their finances in order probably don’t set goals to be in good shape or get their finances in order. They probably set goals of running a marathon or paying off their house. In other words, they think in narrative rather than goals. The goals get met in the journey of the story.
Read the rest here.
Love it Chris. Thanks. I’ve linked it to mine.