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title: Creative Quickie – Don’t Speak Your Goals
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# [Creative Quickie – Don’t Speak Your Goals](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/creative-quickie-dont-speak-your-goals)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Sep 5, 2008 10:00:00 AM

This is a non-traditional approach shared by motivational speaker [Ed Foreman:](http://www.edforeman.com/) when you have a big goal that you tell others about, many of them will try to explain why you shouldn’t have a goal that big or how come you’ll never achieve it.

His answer? Keep your big goals to yourself and don’t share them with others. In that way, you avoid all the negative advice and can move toward your big creative goal mentally unfettered.

I dismissed the approach when I first heard about it, but my wife of 21 years (as of today) has used it to cross numerous projects off her list without having to listen to me explain why we shouldn’t be doing them!

Happy Anniversary Cyndi!!!

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