Scary Goals

"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, not defeat." Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

Yesterday some of my colleagues presented on how they pursued goals that they thought may have been too big for them to tackle.

One of them spoke on how a new year's resolution led her to complete her first half marathon, and another one spoke on how in spite of her busy schedule as a full time employee and mother of two, her desire for social change led her to a 9 month leadership program, CORO.

I love to hear about stories of pursuits of what Jim Collins calls BHAGS- Big Hairy Audacious Goals- which are btw, distinctively clear and compelling.

Which BHAG are you pursuing now? How about your company? Is it big enough to infuse a healthy dose of fear into your loins?

Check out Henry Ford's goal in 1907: "To build a motor car for the great multitude...It will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...The horse will have disappeared from our highways, the automobile will be taken for granted."