If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

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In the OUTGROW Mission, I've listed 9 objective goals to measure how 2012 will be great for me. I picked KIV goals from some of the domains in my life. Some of these things I've drilled and bored into for months but all that was put in place were words. And perhaps I've yet to work on them because I didn't think I could! What I'm striving for in 2012 is to out-perform myself and achieve all these by the end of year.

I like the idea of themes. I've dabbled with New Look and Next Look; I've donned The Model Attitude and played with Simple and Happy. But since the inception of The Better Selves Project (of which its title and its members are not only subject to change but expected to change) I'm okay not to have a theme really. It's not the most important thing. Nonetheless, I like the idea of OUTGROW; it whimsically encapsulates the overarching idea of competition with and improvement beyond the self — myself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner,  1897  - 1962