Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Golden Circle

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about goal-setting frameworks for goals_on_dw. Read Part 1: Introduction to Goal-Setting Frameworks, Part 2: The 1-3-5 Rule, Part 3: The 12-week Year, Part 4: ABCS (Achievable, Believable, Committed, Specific), Part 5: Backward Goal, Part 6: BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), Part 7: BSQ (Think Big, Act Small, Move Quick), Part 8: CLEAR (Collaborative, Limited, Emotional, Appreciable, Refinable), Part 9: Goal Pyramid, Part 10: Golden Circle.


Part 10: Golden Circle

The Golden Circle is a simple goal-setting framework. It asks three questions: Why? How? What? It creates a clear objective, but focuses primarily on the motivation. This is great if you tend to lose motivation while pursuing your goals. It also supports communication.



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Star Wars Day

Today is Star Wars Day. Here are some ways to celebrate.



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Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy, mild, and wet.  it's been raining lightly all day.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few house finches and sparrows.  Clearly larger birds have been about, though, because the corncob has large empty patches.

EDIT 5/4/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

Many birds are now mobbing the feeders.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, at least three blue jays, two mourning doves, a brown thrasher, a red-headed woodpecker, and a fox squirrel.  :D

The rain seems to be tapering off but everything is still soaked.

EDIT 5/4/25 -- I planted 4 assorted perennial pinks and 2 purple and white mixed sweet alyssum in a purple pot on the patio.  I planted 2 pink and 2 white impatiens in the log garden.

EDIT 5/4/25 -- I planted a purple-and-white speckled petunia, a lavender veined petunia, a white callibrachoa, and a 'Dusty Miller' artemesia in the big blue pot on the old picnic table.

EDIT 5/4/25 -- I planted a purple-and-yellow striped petunia, a pink-and-yellow lantana, a pink-and-yellow striped superbells, and 2 purple-and-yellow snapdragons in a pot that will fit into an empty chair frame.

I've seen a pair of cardinals and two brown thrashers.

Ukraine Resistance

Peace in exchange for land? For many Ukrainians, it's too painful to contemplate

KYIV, May 2 (Reuters) - Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxer who is now mayor of Kyiv, ventured last month into hazardous political territory: he delicately suggested in an interview that Ukraine might need to cede land to end its battle against Russia.
After a flood of angry online comments, he walked back his comments, saying on Facebook that "territorial concessions contradict our national interests and we must fight against their implementation until the last".

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