Okay... who am I kidding? My life is always goal-oriented. It's not just summer. Before you get impressed by my goal setting ninja capabilities, you should know that anyone who truly knows me (as in, you know... i exist irl, and not just as a virtual presence), knows two things about me:
1. I use goals as a motivation because I am incredibly lazy
and
2. I rarely meet my goals.
BUT... I get a whole lot further along with goals that I would without them, and honestly (in case any future employers are reading this) I can be a really productive person when 2 very simple stipulations are added, which are as follows:
1. There is a big enough reward
or
2. I have to.
Quick example... getting paid to write is a good reward, in general. Getting paid $20 for full rights to 750 words, however, is not a good reward. True story. Someone actually offered this to me for some pretty good words, if I do say so myself. But if the price is right, I will say "yes," and once I make a commitment to someone else, I get a very horrible feeling about letting that person down. So, that is also a very good motivator.
So, let's add "#3. Feeling obligated to someone else" as the 3rd way I am productive.
Another quick example, back at #2... I have to eat to live. I do not like preparing food. Nor do I like the task of sitting and eating food. People have made fun of me for this, but it's just how I am. I can't help it. Anyway, as we all know by now, it is essential to eat if I want to live. At this point in my life (and hopefully, from here on out) I do have a lot to live for and I value life pretty strongly. So, this is something that can make me much more productive on the making food front. I have to.
Anyway... not really the point. Just the disclaimer because I do intend to attempt to secure some writing jobs, and I'm not foolish enough to think in this day and age that I can just put something out there on the interwebs without a potential employer looking at it. Oh, the glories of online journaling!
Whatever.
Here are my goals for the summer:
1. Write on here 4 times (1 down, 3 to go). I started small because, let's face it... I don't keep up with this here thing very much. Mainly because every time I write, I end up getting deep and it's just not good blog fodder. So, I'm going to try to remember why I like blogging (mainly because it's fun to be sarcastic and random. Did I just say random? Am I 14?), and then I will proceed to do that.
2. Exercise Monday through Saturday. I'm on day 4 of this, and it's going quite well. My second blog post will most likely be a run-down of my exercising, so stay tuned for that amazingness!
3. Be a fun person. Easier said than done for a melancholy like me, but again I'm on day 4 of this with only one grump session so far! w00t, w00t! (wow... see how fun I am? I just said w00t... twice! And I have used a lot of exclamation marks already in this post! Guys! This is seriously working! Go, goals!)
4. Enjoy my kids for these last days that I have them. Okay... while all of these goals are real, this is where I turn deep and serious. Queue the slow, dramatic music. I have homeschooled for 8 years. That's a full 1/3 of my life. (okay, it's a 1/4 of my life.... okay! a year over 1/5... shut up!) Point is that it's a long time, and now my kiddos are all going to school next year. It's a long story about how that happened, but it's happened, and it's happening... in just over 2 months. I will have no children in the home from 8-2:30. I kind of feel like Rapunzel when she first escapes from the tower. I mean, this will either be the best thing ever for our family or my kids will end up seriously screwed up for life, right? But for real, I will miss them, and I want to enjoy our time together.
Well, four seems like a do-able number. If I get too crazy, I might overdo it and end up just giving up. Better stop here.
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