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Nobody asked for my advice but I'll give it anyway: Don't tell anyone your new year's resolution. Because if you tell people, it will give you a feeling of accomplishment which will undermine your motivation.
Keep your goals to yourself.
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself?language=en
And yet the first thing in his bio on that page announces his goal: "Through his new project, MuckWork, Derek Sivers wants to lessen the burdens (and boredom) of creative people."
There is a time to speak of your goals and a time to keep silent.
Yes, I agree that's a bit of a contradiction, although I suppose one could say that it's more of a marketing schtick than a real goal. The real goal is presumably to build a successful business, to get acclaim, etc.
He's also rather overweight.
I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by noting this - would you mind clarifying?
If he's overweight, it suggests that his self-help advice is ineffective. Of course there are a few alternate explanations: That his advice is effective, but not sufficiently effective to diet successfully. Or that he doesn't care about being fat. And probably others too.
Still, successful weight loss is one of the closest things to guaranteed success if you are able to get your s* together. As opposed to other goals like getting rich or finding and marrying the love of your life. And there are so many advantages to being thin that pretty much every fat person has tried to lose weight. Some of them, many many times. So I wouldn't trust a fat self-help guru.
Hope that clarifies things.
This is a good point, and in fact immediately after writing my comment I partially regretted it because of this.
The major upside for me, though, is that I could get advice and feedback on whether/how to achieve my goal.