So,

last week's goal was borne more out of necessity than anything. The first half of the week was rough, but by the end I was back on track, focusing on my goals, cleaning my room, and keeping the non-happy bits of me safely locked away.

In the mean time, I'm more focused now, and I'm ready to begin the week after syllabus week as I always intend to stay: organized. This means putting all my major due dates up on my google calendar (I got a head start on that last night), checking my syllabi regularly to keep up with my readings, and making a list each week of homework that needs to be accomplished. I got into the swing of doing that by the end of last semester, and I'm hoping I'll be able to start--and keep up with it!--earlier this semester. Overall, goal 26 is to get my school things organized, and keep them that way.

Today was the first day of classes,

which signifies that summer is officially over. It's also monday, so new goal day! Originally I had something else planned for this week's goal, but my emotions have been 100% everywhere over the past few days, so goal 25: Focus on Happy. Also, don't lose sight of the progress I've been making these past weeks, as far as cleaning my room and staying organized. Remember my goals. Just because classes started again, it doesn't mean I should lose sight of what I've been working toward.

Hello!

Monday's here again, so time to evaluate and make another goal! Between avoiding too much focus on the past, and watching a few episodes of the show "Hoarders" my room has suddenly started becoming noticeably cleaner. Funny how things like that work. >.>

This week's goal goes along with the room cleaning. I have many books. MANY books. I suck at math and estimation and the sorts, but I'd say I definitely have over 100 books, possibly close to 200. Naturally they don't all fit on the bookshelves I have, so there are little stacks on the floor. (And the desk. And the nightstand. Not to mention that there are books in front of books and on top of other books on every shelf of the bookcase.) So goal 24: Go through all my books. The ones I definitely want to keep need to find their way on to the shelves somehow. Ones that I no longer care for can be gotten rid of, and the ones I want to read before I get rid of need to be put in one neat stack, together.

-M.

Goal 23

Alright, so I kinda dropped the ball with my whole weekly goal thing. (Please note that I originally wrote “dropped the bomb” and stared at it for like 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong.) I’m going to keep trying, though, and pretend I didn’t screw up, so here it goes:

I am one of those people that constantly lives in the past, occasionally in the present, and thinks of the future only in a sort of dreamy, far-off, distant kind of way. This week I want to modify that a bit. So, goal 23 is to focus a bit on the close-future. Nothing too far in the distance, but I’m going to get a bit more organized for fall semester, and hopefully plan out some breaks when I’ll go to visit people, along with planning for other events that I want to incorporate, and writing notes of when to make birthday cards and things so I can mail them on time. I also want to write an updated journal post of where I see myself in the future. (I wrote one a while ago that I can’t see happening as much as I used to.)

Overall, more focus on the future, less focus on the past. I also want to get back to reading some more.

-M.