Following Personal Goals
In my last post relating to Basket Weaving, I explained that I had a term paper due in 12 hours. I didn’t get it done, like I thought, so I put it off again. I finally got started on it tonight at 9:00pm. At 11:00pm, I was sending the document to the printer. Thinking back, even now, I’m wondering how I did it.In order to get myself to even start it, I was scaring myself with thinking about not getting it done. That nearly always works, but in the case of this paper, if I put it of another week, I would only lose 20% of the total grade. Considering the class is not the most important class in my life, I could probably have squeezed by with that.However, I knew in my heart that I wanted to get it finished and not worry about it anymore. So, I started working on another project, one I could work for hours on and still want to work more. Then, all of the sudden, I stopped myself, right in the middle of writing a function and forced myself to work on the paper.For some strange reason, stopping myself in the middle of something else worked and I typed furiously on the paper for a full two hours; the whole time thinking about working on the project I enjoy working on.Being done, I have that great feeling of relief we all know and love. I still have a ton of work to do for school, church, work and home, but I fee like I might actually get it finished now!