Being the busy bee I am, I barely have time to clean my room. After almost losing my small dog in the clutter of clothes that laid sprawled out across my floor, I finally decided to clean it. Taking a little over three hours to clean the room it finally returned to normal, but it wasn't a walk in the park to get there. Before starting, I began to doubt that my room would ever return to normal. Negative thoughts were all that roamed my head and they didn't leave for quite some time. While cleaning my room the negative thoughts stored toward the back of my mind. They didn't quite leave but overall I started to become more optimistic. After I sorted the clothes, I began to see that there wasn't as much work to be done. By organizing the clothes I organized my thoughts and the light at the end of the tunnel began to shine bright. Finally, after working for three long hours the room was pristine. I was so proud of myself for pushing through those three tough hours of hard work to achieve my goal. I finally did it and nothing feels better that achieving a much needed goal.
This task not only helped me achieve a goal but it changed my mind. It helped me realize how important it is to makes goals. If I didn't previously make a goal I wouldn't have had any incentive to finish cleaning the room. The goal forced me to divide my work and take on each section one at a time. My mind since the task has been setting more goals, even if it is just doing homework. For example, last night I wanted to make sure I was in bed by mid-night. To achieve this task, I made sure to give each subject a specific amount of time and attention so when mid-night rolled around I was in bed. To my surprise my goal was easily met and it wouldn't have been possible if I didn't practice making goals and dividing up the tasks by cleaning my room.
After the amazing task of cleaning my mess of room, I found out a lot more about myself in general. I didn't know how determined I was to achieve a goal. I didn't give up when I began to get tired and hungry, nor did I just do a sloppy job and shove clothes under my bed. After accomplishing the task I now know how strong my will to succeed is and when given a goal to achieve I will fight to the finish, even if it is something as silly as cleaning my room.
That's an interesting way of going about it, Brittany. Goal setting is such an awesome way of accomplishing a task, whether big or small, because it really sets your mind to completing it. I never set any sort of goal when I cleaned up my computer, but now that I think about it I could have made it a lot easier on myself if I had.
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