Goal setting and urinals in McDonalds?

Hey I'm new here and I just started an "experiment" at my new blog...

I have been around the block so to speak and I have been up and down up again and down and up...ad nauseum. I decided to really approcah things differently this time...

The following is a post I made at my new "experiment" blog about goal setting and the ephiphany I had while standing at a urinal in a McDonalds the other day...I hope you enjoy and can gain some value from my "ephiphany"....LOL

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Goal setting and urinals in McDonalds


This particular McDonalds had one of those really cool enviromentally friendly waterless urinals that is supposed to save thousands of gallons of otherwise wasted water each year.

One other feature I noticed about this urinal is that it had a "to scale" detailed ethched fly right in the center of the urinal about 5 inches or so above the urnial drain...I swear I had to do a double take because it actually looked like a real fly....I noticed myself naturally targeting the etched fly as I used the urinal...I got to thinking was this the purpose of the etched fly in the first place?...To give me a target?

I did a little research into the etched fly in urinals feature and I found out that there is a very specific reason why the etched fly was there. Apparently the company that came up with the etched fly idea did studies and found that public restrooms that had these urinals with the ethced flys actually stayed cleaner and smelling fresher for longer periods of time....The reason why? Because there was less urine splash outside of the urinals. Think about that for a second.

Just like I noticed my natural tendency to target the fly as I used the urinal apparently so do other men when they use the same kind of urinals. The company that came up with the fly etched urinals figured out if they gave men a "target" (the etched fly) that they would be less likely to be carless and let the unintended "spash factor" happen which tends to make things less clean and smell bad in a short period of time....

I had an epiphany.... When we set a target or set a goal the actions we take in execution to achieving that goal are a lot more focused, purpose driven, efficient and ultimately "cleaner" with a better end result. Having a specific target is key in how successful you will be....Just aim for a target or goal that you set and things automatically have a more successful outcome...Seems like common sense but sometimes we forget the simple fundamentals...

Just setting the goal (ie target) is more than half the battle to achieving the desired outcome....Just ask the people that came up with idea of etching flys into urinals...

Definitely something to think about....Gavin