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The Awesome Power of Mini-Goals

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Write five new pages a day.
Send out three queries a week.
Draft a proposal by the end of September.
Research six agents by the end of the month.
These are all good SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. But sometimes our SMART goals can be too much of a struggle.
When?
When you get two rejections in the […]


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