I am not a New Year’s resolution type of girl. January first seldom marks a time when I am
starting a new goal for myself. I prefer
to work on goals year round and start them when I know they will work for
me. I also prefer to make goals in which
I develop something rather than refrain from something I am already doing.
(Instead of not eating sugar, I will add more vegetable to my diet.) For this and other reasons, one particular
assignment I have this semester is about to put me over the edge in
frustration. It is a goal setting project.
Are you kidding me? Goal setting
and accomplishment is part of my daily life.
I seldom have a time when I am not working on one goal or another. This
assignment fills me with angst!
Imagine my delight when one of my professors suggested
reading “How I became a Morning Person, Read More Books, and Learned a Language
in a Year.” It was exactly how I feel
about making goals. It pin-pointed the
areas of irritation I have over this assignment. One, I already have goals I was working
on. This assignment just made me have
more. Having too many goals at once is
usually what makes people fail. If we
work on one, maybe two things at a time, then we are more likely to have
success. This assignment required there
to be several. Two, there is mental
preparation involved in goal setting, this assignment did not allow for that. I take my goal setting seriously. I spend time contemplating the areas where I
need to improve. I pray for guidance as
I seek to find ways to develop into the woman my Lord wants me to be, the woman
He sees in me. Although the goals I set
for the class are good, they are not the things I was lead to by the
spirit. They were just additional things
that most people need to do. I don’t see
them as improving my life, not really. (So
here is something else I need to work on!
Attitude!)
The best advice I got from the article was the principle of
stacking goals. To do this, use a habit
which is already formed, and when you do it, add the new goal to it. I like this triggering mechanism and I am excited
to try it. I think it is a tool capable
of helping me achieve even greater things! I am working on devising a plan to
put the irritating assignment goals with things I already do. Maybe this way I will feel a sense of
accomplishment over them.
$100 challenge.
At the moment, this project is in a standstill. There are no lessons being done this week or
next. They begin on the 29th. I am wishing I had planned them to start
sooner.
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