June 23, 2011
Setting goals
So I would like to start this off by saying that I'm fully aware that everyone seems to start a blog for various reason, and the leading one seems to be motivation. Clearly this becomes somewhat boring and dull for people to read, and frankly I would often times see them and just not even read them. They seem to be a dime a dozen. This trend didnt make sense to me until recently. It is shocking how just the idea of putting all your goals, ideas, and personal challenges out there for people to read ( even if hardly anyone actually does) makes it a point of pride for me to work harder towards achieving these goals. So lets get to it and see if i can make some head way!
Goal #1
* Work my freaking ass off in school. Since black Friday i have way more free time, and I'm starting to channel more of that to my school work. This is great. My grades are looking better, homework is always being done. I need to get a tutor set up, and then i need to really put it in high gear. I can make an A in every single class, so why don’t I? Time to grind this out. I know i can do it. Changing majors was hard ( from Biology to Finance) but I know have a clear cut plan for where i wanna be in life, so with those goals I see a future I would like, so now it is time to get my ass in gear and work towards it ASAP!
Goal #2
* I have started and stopped p90x so many times. I think its a common thing for people. But in all honesty I have no excuse why i couldn’t do it every day. I tend to have a all or nothing attitude, if i miss 2 days I just lose the interest to do it. That’s a terrible reason, i shouldn’t be working at it from that perspective. If i miss a day I just need to keep working and try and stay on the path. So to try and help me with that I have asked to see if I can find a motivation partner ( someone else starting p90x) in the dc p90x thread so hopefully I can find someone to help keep me motivated and hopefully I can do the same for him!
Goal #3
* I have had a really shitty personal life as of late. I actually feel head over heels for someone, but they are very unsure of what they want. It was making me miserable for a long time now ( past month or so). Time for me to do things to make me happy and move on. I actually really like this person ( despite actually trying to not) but i need to move on and set boundaries in my head. I can’t let myself go mentally to places and let myself have feelings that will lead to me being unhappy. This is rough because I really don’t get emotionally connected to people easily so when I honesty do it becomes a major problem to undue it. I don’t really regret a lot of the times I had with her thou: we had fun, she honestly got me over my last major relationship which i can’t thank her enough for because I was miserable about that, and finally i really do still value her friendship and wish her all the best. I want her to be happy, but i was being selfish and unrealistic. It’s in the past, and I’m currently trying to move forward.
Goal #4
* As a reward to myself when I have my homework and studying done, I have worked out that day, and my life and living area is in order: I will force myself to have fun but only when it is acceptable to. I’m horrendous with managing my time. I often times play before i work, or work so much i hate it, or play so much I can’t get enough of my work done. A common theme about my life is everything is out of balance. So I need to balance things. My goals are somewhat ambitious, I’m going to often times be working my ass off. So I am going to allow myself to watch TV, play in play chips poker ( black Friday sucks), play SC2, watch net-flicks, whatever ONLY AFTER I HAVE MY SHIT IN ORDER FOR THAT DAY! This is big for me. I know how to work hard, i know how to have fun, and i know i should have my life balanced. What I’m lacking in is the discipline to actually balance myself. I have to be very cautious of this. This is my biggest flaw in life. If I don't solve this i expect i will go nowhere in life.
Basically all my goals are about moving forward and balancing my life. I spend too much time dwelling on things and frankly bitching about things. This needs to change, I need to be more proactive about my life and be in more control over myself and my emotions. The funny thing is that I’m not exactly an emotional person, I feel I do a decent job of controlling them for the most part. But in hindsight, a lot of my controlling of emotions was just ignoring their existence, and that will only delay the problem. The true solution is to confront things, and being as passive as a person as I tend to be this rarely happens. So time to move forward with everything.
Thanks for taking the time for reading this if you actually did. I’m very much just doing this for myself but if you happen to read this, have any comments or have faced similar situations please feel free to leave a comment, I try to be open to people’s input.
Rrumsey
Goal #1
* Work my freaking ass off in school. Since black Friday i have way more free time, and I'm starting to channel more of that to my school work. This is great. My grades are looking better, homework is always being done. I need to get a tutor set up, and then i need to really put it in high gear. I can make an A in every single class, so why don’t I? Time to grind this out. I know i can do it. Changing majors was hard ( from Biology to Finance) but I know have a clear cut plan for where i wanna be in life, so with those goals I see a future I would like, so now it is time to get my ass in gear and work towards it ASAP!
Goal #2
* I have started and stopped p90x so many times. I think its a common thing for people. But in all honesty I have no excuse why i couldn’t do it every day. I tend to have a all or nothing attitude, if i miss 2 days I just lose the interest to do it. That’s a terrible reason, i shouldn’t be working at it from that perspective. If i miss a day I just need to keep working and try and stay on the path. So to try and help me with that I have asked to see if I can find a motivation partner ( someone else starting p90x) in the dc p90x thread so hopefully I can find someone to help keep me motivated and hopefully I can do the same for him!
Goal #3
* I have had a really shitty personal life as of late. I actually feel head over heels for someone, but they are very unsure of what they want. It was making me miserable for a long time now ( past month or so). Time for me to do things to make me happy and move on. I actually really like this person ( despite actually trying to not) but i need to move on and set boundaries in my head. I can’t let myself go mentally to places and let myself have feelings that will lead to me being unhappy. This is rough because I really don’t get emotionally connected to people easily so when I honesty do it becomes a major problem to undue it. I don’t really regret a lot of the times I had with her thou: we had fun, she honestly got me over my last major relationship which i can’t thank her enough for because I was miserable about that, and finally i really do still value her friendship and wish her all the best. I want her to be happy, but i was being selfish and unrealistic. It’s in the past, and I’m currently trying to move forward.
Goal #4
* As a reward to myself when I have my homework and studying done, I have worked out that day, and my life and living area is in order: I will force myself to have fun but only when it is acceptable to. I’m horrendous with managing my time. I often times play before i work, or work so much i hate it, or play so much I can’t get enough of my work done. A common theme about my life is everything is out of balance. So I need to balance things. My goals are somewhat ambitious, I’m going to often times be working my ass off. So I am going to allow myself to watch TV, play in play chips poker ( black Friday sucks), play SC2, watch net-flicks, whatever ONLY AFTER I HAVE MY SHIT IN ORDER FOR THAT DAY! This is big for me. I know how to work hard, i know how to have fun, and i know i should have my life balanced. What I’m lacking in is the discipline to actually balance myself. I have to be very cautious of this. This is my biggest flaw in life. If I don't solve this i expect i will go nowhere in life.
Basically all my goals are about moving forward and balancing my life. I spend too much time dwelling on things and frankly bitching about things. This needs to change, I need to be more proactive about my life and be in more control over myself and my emotions. The funny thing is that I’m not exactly an emotional person, I feel I do a decent job of controlling them for the most part. But in hindsight, a lot of my controlling of emotions was just ignoring their existence, and that will only delay the problem. The true solution is to confront things, and being as passive as a person as I tend to be this rarely happens. So time to move forward with everything.
Thanks for taking the time for reading this if you actually did. I’m very much just doing this for myself but if you happen to read this, have any comments or have faced similar situations please feel free to leave a comment, I try to be open to people’s input.
Rrumsey
2 Comments:
BaseMetal posted on June 28, 2011 at 22:01 PM
Welcome to the bloggesphere,
Nice goals, I especially like Goal #1 as it should really pay off well. I think Ben Franklin said something Like 'the investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.' I would say that learning about anything is interesting and if you can keep the interest going the learning is easier.
Cheers,
Base.
rrumsey posted on June 30, 2011 at 16:25 PM
thanks for the encouragement base!
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