Second Chances — Redux

Today is the first day of the year 5774 in the Jewish calendar. As it’s a holiday, I’m rerunning the post (with a few tweaks) I did last year about having an “extra” day to revisit the year’s goals.

Did you set goals in January for the year 2013? How are you doing? Whether they’re writ­ing related or life related isn’t the point. It’s hav­ing a direc­tion, and a way to mea­sure that direc­tion. The key word is mea­sur­able. If you don’t know what you’ve done, you can’t know if you’re suc­ceed­...