Here is a very short (barely over 3 minutes) and very interesting video by Derek Sivers on why you should keep your mouth shut when you establish a new goal rather than telling everyone about it.
(He talks more about it here in this short blog post.)
I'm a big fan of videos less than 5 minutes long that make you think about something for a really long time.
Enjoy!
http://www.ted.com After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone -- but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.
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