Attaining Degrees of Success

One thing that I neglected to mention in yesterday's post was that all of the goals I had set at New Year's have been fulfilled. I am now enrolled in college, I have gotten myself a driver's license(even if it's only for 50cc bikes--I'm taking my 150cc road test today), I found a cheaper place to leave, and I found a new job, which I began Tuesday.

Tomorrow is actually job orientation and training. I will be a Summer Camp Counselor at a local community center called The Centre. I am really looking forward to spending my days working with kids. I have a long term goal of opening a co-op community center in the future. I think this will be a nice introduction and excellent experience for working toward that goal.

Today I'm taking my 150cc road test which moves me closer toward getting a automobile driver's license. Since I'm a bit older now, I'm not as daring as I used to be. When I first decided to get a driver's license I went straight for stick-shift and failed miserably. That put me in a driving rut for a few years where I didn't want to see a driving instructor or examiner if my life depended on it. But this year I've been taking gradual steps toward the final product and that's been working well.

Last note, I ended a ten-day fast yesterday and I'm looking forward to eating a lovely meal sometime real soon. (9)

Inspiration, Motivation, and Achievement

I figured that now is as good as time as any to really begin achieving my goals. For too long I've been putting off the things that could help me move forward with excuses like, "I'll do it tomorrow" or "I want to have enough time to dedicate to it." Well I just had an epiphany.

Starting today, the rest of my life is more than enough time to dedicate to all my goals--past, present, and future.

About six weeks ago I was given an assignment of my Introduction to Business course on self-assessment and goal setting. The course is a requirement for the Web Development program that I'm enrolled in. The assignment isn't due, per se. It's more of a research and exploration project. Personally, I think the professor just really likes to inspire his students to move forward beyond their set goals.

In the course I've been getting excellent grades, but the self-assessment assignment has just been sitting on the wayside. I hadn't put any time into it, not even to read what was expected. When the professor gave it out I really wanted to get into it, but with the workload from the class, my other class, and full-time work as well, it just kind of got back-burnered.

This morning I had some time so I decided to look it over. I read the three pages of instructions and then I began filling out the assessment page. I got as far as "Goals: Achieved & Planned" when I realized that many of my goals were no accomplished because of silly things like procrastination and lack of self-motivation. This blog, for instance, has been sitting here waiting for me to publish a first post. It's self-titled, so all I had to do was write about myself; what I did on any given day or how I feel. It hasn't taken that long to write all of this thus far(that is unless you include the time since March when I planned all of this).

I'm going to give myself a kick in the rear because this was something I wrote back in early March and it served little purpose while I distracted myself by looking for incentive. But upon reading it now, I feel a little less guilty about my creative stagnancy.

Final words: Inspire and motivate yourself, otherwise you're just helping someone else achieve by default. (8)