I am the first person that will readily admit that I read about strategies that make others successful; whether they be entrepreneurs or yogis, I read it all. Not only that, but I try to adopt and integrate some of the more realistic things that I read into my everyday life.
Some of what I have tried has really stuck. An example of this is mediating every morning, setting daily goals for myself, and using to-do lists. I also try to not eat sugar (in accordance with Jack Dorsey's do's and don'ts list)... But that usually is not successful because most things that are good in life have sugar in them. Setting long-term goals is also something that I know many successful people do, but long-term goals are something I find both harder to both keep track of and achieve. Since it is the end of another semester, and because I have been approaching a transition phase in my life, I have been setting more and more long-term goals. The difficulty of juggling long term goals is creating deadlines for each, and strategically devising time tables that support a realistic victory of the goal. This must also be done in a manner that is conducive to continual and steady growth as a person and a professional. One of the long-term goals that I have just created for myself is to learn a new language. I have always shunned language training and instruction because I have never been good at it. But, in a leap of maturity, I would like to embrace my weakness and learn regardless. That is after all what makes you better, right? So, this summer, amongst other long-term goals such as perfecting my HTML, working up the courage to cut my hair extra short, and making time to blog everyday, I will be learning a new language. Deciding which language leads me to my next dilemma: how do you coordinate your goals with achievements of your past and future, while using these strengths to place you in the best position moving forward. This is where I get a headache. Being an undergraduate and still not knowing QUITE exactly what I want to do means that making long-term goals and decisions such as second language creates boundaries, while simultaneously catalyzing opportunities. The juxtaposition of this phenomenon is something that intimidates me. If nothing else, I plan to learn from everything and allow goal setting to be a road map to where I wish to find myself in the future.
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