Goals for 2006

What are my goals? I haven't thought about it a lot recently. I should have a list. A public list. To keep me focused.

Here are some of the things I want to get done before the end of June 2006:

• have 500 channels of kickass, ball-busting content on TPN
• have 1,000,000 TPN subscribers
• launch a worldwide depression awareness campaign
• have one person come up to me in the street and tell me that something they heard on a TPN show saved their life, saved their marriage, inspired them to make a major life decision, etc.
• do an interview with Lou Reed
• get a photo of mine selected by Flickr as having "interestingness"
• be less of a cantankerous asshole
• feel like I'm making a difference in the world
• have less days when I feel like I'm a total loser fuck-up and have accomplished nothing

Comments

[CD]

Interesting! Did you keep your personal goals out of this list? Looks much like a list of business goals...and looks like too many to me :-)

They say the key is (with a French accent) FOCUS...

[Ben]

"get a photo of mine selected by Flickr as having "interestingness"" I want that as well!

500 channels though? That's a lot.

[Phillip Molly Malone]

Wow, 400 channels in the Second year (400% growth) if you reach the first year target (although Technically it was 100 by 14 Feb 2006. That means 400 in about 10-11 Months).

Good luck with it.

Molly

[Jon]

Cameron:

Two things I have to say after reading your list:

I've had hundreds of Internet relationships with people all across the globe over the past ten years. I've been a part of more failed Internet projects that I can shake a stick at and I've been on both ends of that stick. You are, without a doubt, the lest cantakerous asshole that I've ever worked with. You're always cheerful and you make shit happen. That's number one.

Number two: TPN has changed my life. The opportunity you gave me to run the GNU/Linux User Show has changed my life significantly. I have thousands of listeners and they email and post entries on the show blog and in the show forums every day. They look to me for help, advice, and just plain old chatter. The show has also changed my relationship with Kelly - we do the show together each week and it's opened up a new little niche in our relationship where we sit down and actually talk to each other for 1/2 an hour without any distractions. It's not likely that I'll ever run into you on the street, but at least you should know that you and TPN has changed my life for the better in more ways than I can count. I have focus, I have a community that I belong to, and I have some uninterrupted time each week with Kelly which is a hard thing to come by in thie busy world.

Bravo Zulu, Cam. That's navy for 'well done'.

[Tony]

Great sentiments Jon.

TPN hasn't changed my life as much as it has yours but I love a lot of the shows and listen to them all the time.

Cam has a lot of goals and hopefully he will acheive most if not all of them.

[Daryl Cook]

Cam,

Came across this quote the other day (via

"One simple thing that you can learn easily and that can make a significant impact on your lives is - working hard to keep the promises you make to yourself"

... thought you might like it!

D.

[Shannon from Florida]

I'm just some random college kid in Florida who has had her social life stolen by a term paper on nueroscience.This site popped up 2nd after searching for goals/brain. My final paper is a study of what happens in the brain when we set goals and how the results vary between people who write goals down and make them public; and people who just sorta think them. I have found this: That 97% of our population is ruled by the 3% that set goals. Better yet... make and encourage Dream Boards. It may sound silly, but when you study the science behind it, it is huge! HEres how: Write you goals, which you have done. Cut pictures out from magazines and print them up from the internet... then glue them to a poster board and sit them infront of your desk that you normally work at. The Reticular Activating System in your head then makes it darn near impossible not to notice opportunitys you never saw before. Suggested Reads: Quiet Leadership by David Rock, User's guide to the Brain by John Ratey, anything by Tony Robbins and for now- most importantly: www.thinkarete.com/wisdom/works/notes/1434/_print

Thanks so much for the reprive from the Basal Ganglia and Thalamus.... (beleieve it or not those are parts of your head)
Congradulations on your booming buisness and good luck on being interesting, lol.