The Audacity of Goal Setting

I had good conversations today, spiced with the reality check of some not so encouraging chats.

The good news is the ratio of supportive conversations to less encouraging chats is running nearly 10:1, so I consider this largely a case of signal-to-noise ratio.

Still, when speaking with supposed "veterans" of successful non-profit endeavors, I'm troubled by the more than occasional meta-message of "lower your expectations, son." (And thanks for the complement of paternal tone, but I'm far older than you can tell by my voice.)