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So, let's talk about goals. Or rather about SMART, the system for setting them properly. Do you think these are simply clever goals, from the word smart, or is there something hidden behind it?It is not just a word, it is an acronym.S-pecificM-easurableA-ttainableR-ealisticT-imely

Plenty of people dream of start-ups, and they enjoy talking about start-ups even more. Meanwhile «self-development, start-ups, personal growth» all get lined up together on the internet. So off I went to take a second degree and do a start-up... And I hear other opinions: why can't you just live? Remember Tatyana Oleshkevich and her video saying that «successful products are invented by people who travel and have sex»?

There is a useful habit: in a new situation, in an argument or in a heated conversation, agree first. With the situation, with the other person, with the new experience. The habit is called the TOTAL YES. This is not about Jim Carrey in «The Yes Man». It is more about taking life lightly, accepting people as they are, and keeping the climate of a conversation friendly.

In this article we will look at these regularities. By way of a preface, let me say that below I include a video by Alexey Osipov (professor of the Moscow Theological Academy, theologian), my spiritual mentor. But do not think, my friends, that this will be about religion only! It will not. We will look at psychological processes as well; in this article, so to speak, I will be speaking with you in two languages, so that believers and atheists alike can follow.