I have always been a big believer in goal setting. A simple idea we all take for granted, yet, goals allow one to make simple judgments when it comes to your own personal successes or failures. Metrics can be crafted to judge the strategy you enact to achieve a stated goal. The more clear cut and easy to articulate the goal is, the easier it is to define your progress towards it. Goals allow those who may wish to rate your progress the ability to craft analysis and offer counterstrategies, critique, or advice to improve or reject the strategy you have in place. And in the high-stakes game of geopolitics you can’t achieve much of anything unless you have a goal and the guts to state it loud and proud.
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