Posts Tagged ‘goals’
So, What Did I Accomplish and Learn About Myself in 2009?
This year has been great and I learned so much about myself and what I can do if I set few goals and saw what happened. These are some of the highlights of my year.
- No internet for 2 weeks.
- Read a book in a day.
- Did a crazy cardio challenge for a whole week.
- Multiple times walking 29 flight of stairs (twice with 10lb ankle weights on each leg).
- Went to California and enjoyed myself immensely.
- Figured out my other passion: Photography!
- Read 5 books in a month.
- Did task/goals on my someday list.
- Set my countdown to leave Corporate America.
- I learn how to write better; also, my grammar improved so damn much.
- Start a novel.
- Wrote over 300,000 words.
- Take a trip for the sole purpose of seeing how fucked up a city truly is (Detroit).
- A 900-plus-mile road trip from Detroit to New York.
- Saw how a small business is striving during a shitty economy.
- Wrote for a full month in my novel (nearly 30k words of dedication).
- Bought a house.
- Proposed to my girlfriend!!!!! (She said yes).
- Finished writing my first novel. (Wrote over 108k words! It is a pile of shit right now, but I’m the shit for completing this crazy challenge).
- Wrote every single day of the year and will never stop doing so…
I also figured out many things about myself.
- I’m an impatient person.
- I work best with less goals.
- I think way too fucken much and wish I can turn it off.
- I go into loops of thought and don’t know how to stop thinking about what I don’t want to think about. (This one is weird, will explain once I figure out how to get out of my head).
- I am an extreme type of person. My fiancée notice this when I was doing my crazy challenges.
- I truly found myself. This is an on-going experience, but writing everyday gave me a chance to question everything about myself. In the beginning of the year, I wrote for 2 straight months of thoughts that were in my head. I was surprised by the information that was effecting the way I lived. I strongly recommend people to write for a couple of minutes a couple of days a week to have a clearer vision of what they want to do or struggling with.
- I like walking. It is great exercise and very therapeutic. Besides laughing at all of the fat people running on the trail I frequently walk, I’m still amazed how better it is on my joints and how the weight disappears. Since I’m so much in my head, the walking helps me to not think (well, as little as possible) and gives me the opportunity to calm my thought, provoking ass down.
Tags: goals, perspective, photography, writing
November: 2 More Months to Go
It has been a month since I’ve started my challenge of writing my novel. I learned many things about myself and the dedication that I put forward towards this challenge. If I want to do anything, I can do it, it just depends on how bad I want to do something. I don’t need to know how to make the goal happen, that will come with time.
What Did I Learn From my Novel Writing?
However, I did realize that I have many loose ends in my writing. It is something that will take me the rest of the year to make my goal of getting it done by the end of the year. It is okay. I plan to also enter this writing competition and will need to edit a passage of my novel to make it contest ready. This step of editing and reediting is what I will be doing sometime next year with my whole book altogether. I’m looking forward to that moment and will see how I do with this particular task in the coming week.
What Did and Didn’t Get Completed
2nd Quarter Review and What I’m Planning
This post was written 2 months ago and have been busy doing other things. It is funny, though, once you write something down, things start to happen and relatively quickly.
The second quarter has come and past, I’m already into the discovery of my next step in my life. I’m not going to explain what did and didn’t happen, but I’m to say that it was a hard, challenging, and a worthwhile quarter.
For the most part, my story isn’t as different from the next person, but as I talk to more people and get their take on what I’m doing, I am seeing that I’m taking hold of my life, even with being trap in Corporate America. I have learn that I’m my worst enemy and my biggest cheerleader. I have to learn the difference between being motivated by others and motivated by myself. If one is constantly motivated by others, than their life is not theirs, they are being push in the wind, because the action is controlled by reaction.
“It is easy to be motivated by somebody not believing in you; the hard part is to be motivated when no one is around…“
-Me
Tags: goals, year so far
Update of Goals from the last month
I have begun my long 4-day work week. I chose Monday’s off, because I always hated preparing for work on Sunday’s and I will always have a 3-day weekend. This off-day will be spent by more writing, resting, and figuring out what I want to do as a second monetary means of surviving. I’ll fill yall in, of what I”ll learn from this experience. I was able to complete some goals that I set at the end of last month before I started my Monday’s off.
Here is a breakdown of what all got accomplish and what didn’t:
Novel writing - I didn’t get to my goal of 100 pages, but I did get to a point of significant measures. I have got the main character active (he better be active, the story is centered around him) and at the point I’m at now will help me go back and finish the beginning part of the novel. I will soon perform the 24 hours of writing, once I get back from my trip. I don’t know what I will be writing, but should be a fun experience trying.
Business Idea - Figured out that I don’t have the time, money, and more importantly, dedication to recycle paper for profit. So, I am back to the drawing board of figuring out what I want to do, more on the basis of my passions, rather than something I am looking at as an exit strategy.
Tags: goals, Monday's Off, writing
Goals for the Rest of the Month…
In a couple of weeks I will be partaking in a shorten work-week schedule. I will get an extra day off, in return I will have to work 4 10-hour work days. It will take me sometime to get used to the longer days, but no time at all to get used to doing more writing, sleeping, working on my side business, or whatever with the off day. So, I have given myself another couple of crazy goals to do before this schedule kicks in at the beginning of next month.
Goals-
- A) Reach 100 pages in novel.
- B) Write 2 more essays for my portfolio.
- C) Finish first short story.
- D) Get Finances in order.
- E) Find the money source of my side business.
- F) Push girlfriend in the direction she wants to go in.
- G) Develop way to learn words.
In More Detail:
New Year Goal Phrase for the Year: “When Opportunity Meets Preparation”
The new year has begun. I am so excited for it and like always expect great things from me. So far I have started the year off right. I actually got started a month before to get me ready for what I plan to do from now to the rest of the year. The reason why I am writing this post is because of this sports radio talk show host from ESPN, Colin Cowherd, who I listen to on a regular basis, mentioned why people who get what they want out of life isn’t so much luck, but preparation. I also heard about this concept of luck a couple months back while listening to Tavis Smiley interviewing Will Smith when his movie, I Am Legend, was coming out. Will Smith talked about how he doesn’t believe anyone can out perform him in his career and in life in general. Mr. Smith also mentioned that one of his favorite novels, The Alchemist, explains this very point of destiny and preparing for it (great book!). When opportunity meets preparation…blah blah blah…when opportunity meets preparation. I heard this very phrase so many times, but didn’t act on it or where to start. I also wrote this phrase on my ipod and recently pulled the case out and there it was: “When Opportunity meets preparation”.
So when I sat down yesterday for New Year’s dinner with my girlfriend and some of her family we were going around the table saying what our New Year Resolution will be. Everybody said what theirs were and I said that I want to write every single day. I don’t know fully how this is going to happen, but I know that I will make it a point to do.
For the Year 2009 my phrase will be, “When Opportunity Meets Preparation”.
There are a couple of things that I have planned for the year. They are to travel with my girlfriend, spend more time with friends, read more books, and become a writer. My personal goal is to become a writer. I am going to accomplish this by; read books on grammar, attend seminars, proof-read my work, learn new words to add to my vocabulary, talk to fellow writers and editors, and simply write. I will apply for magazine freelancing gigs, write in this blog, write about my thoughts and dreams, write short stories, editorials, random sayings and coining phrases that I think of, write a novel, and whatever else that deals with writing. I know that my preparation (also add dedication) and opportunities will help me to reach my goal and extend my life long dream of becoming a doer and have all of the freedom to touch other people’s lives and people touch my life.
New Year’s Resolution a Month Before the New Year…
This is my second time doing this task and has helped me start the past 2 years off great. I don’t like the sound of New Year’s resolution nor the fact of doing something great and then quickly stop doing that big life changing goal and returning back to our old selves. I believe that we need to examine and modify our lives whenever we want. It doesn’t matter the reason why, but as long as we are changing something that we are not happy about is the key to a productive existence. We shouldn’t let society train us every start of the year to spending money on gym membership, eating right, traveling more, or on materialistic things. I usually evaluate my situation in life every 3 to 4 months and make changes accordingly.
If you say you don’t like them, then why are you doing one?
I have come to realize that every year is going to be “My Year”. I believe 2008 has helped me so much to really get me prepared for what is going to be an exciting 2009. I give myself a one month cushion to set goals and modify my vision/mission, and then change whatever I need to when the new year arrives.
This process is different then setting a New Year’s resolution because I am not only changing one thing that I’m not happy with in my life and not completing that resolution, but changing aspects of my life by evaluating the direction that I am going. It could be the case that I set a particular goal and realize that it isn’t what I was expecting and stop doing that activity. On the contrast, I set a goal and complete it and this may lead me to changing my whole vision and mission. I believe this method helps me to continue to brutally honest with myself about the direction I want my life to go in.
Tags: goals, mission, New Year's Resolution, vision
- @YEAdamMcFarland The full screen editor are badass, I get plenty done, but there shouldn't be a reason for so many choices. 12:37:20 PM November 13, 2009
