{"id":14519,"date":"2011-05-02T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:37:23","slug":"pieces-of-april-for-a-morning-in-may-set-goals-attain-them-record-your-progress-do-better-over-time-repeat-month-by-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14519\/pieces-of-april-for-a-morning-in-may-set-goals-attain-them-record-your-progress-do-better-over-time-repeat-month-by-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Pieces of April for a morning in May: Set goals, attain them, record your progress, do better over time, repeat month-by-month."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I nailed down a house this morning at 6:50 am. It&#8217;s a hard dance to get the right house at the right price, but the world of email permits miracles to happen at any hour of the day or night.<\/p>\n<p>We had a totally rockin&#8217; April, more than three times our monthly nut. But the first check in April didn&#8217;t hit the bank until the 15th of the month, and, until this morning, we had zero dollars on the board for May. Even so, I told Cathleen that April 15th was our last day of poverty. We&#8217;ll see if that&#8217;s a prognostication I can defend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterproofpaper.com\/printable-calendar\/may-2011-printable-calendar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a goal-getting calendar for May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple procedure: Set goals, attain them, record your progress, do better over time, repeat month-by-month. It works. So get on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nailed down a house this morning at 6:50 am. It&#8217;s a hard dance to get the right house at the right price, but the world of email permits miracles to happen at any hour of the day or night. We had a totally rockin&#8217; April, more than three times our monthly nut. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,212,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egoism-in-action","category-flourishing","category-group-therapy","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13331,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13331\/its-october-the-second-do-you-know-where-your-goals-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":14519,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s October the second. 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I sneered at walking before we started doing it, thinking it nothing compared to a hard half-hour on my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13863,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13863\/my-new-years-resolution-to-take-care-of-todays-goals-today-tomorrows-tomorrow-and-to-track-my-progress-every-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":14519,"position":1},"title":"My New Years Resolution: To take care of today&#8217;s goals today, tomorrow&#8217;s tomorrow, and to track my progress every day.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yikes! The end of the month is upon us. The end of the year is upon us. 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