BABY STEPS
There are times I go too far with my attempts toward accomplishment. I wonder if I were to do those short term goal setting things like the books suggest, if I’d get somewhere. It’s all my fault for coming up with that list of thirty damn things to do by thirty. I keep going straight to the long term goal…
Six Pack:
The time I said I am going to the gym every other day and I WILL run a mile. And, I did for a week or two, but then something happen, and that mile of running turned into a run walk run. Well, then just a walk… and now, it’s just a sit and watch TV. Haven’t been to the gym in months.
Japanese Fluency:
There was also the week that I studied Japanese everyday online (for a week) Because I just knew that I would be able to study myself to a level of proficiency that would allow me to get some job that wanted someone bilingual in the language. Hahahaha. I crack myself up. WHAT was I thinking???
Write something:
One night, I laid up and wrote a book in my brain. The entire novel… from preface to conclusion. SEVERAL hours later decided that I would get some sleep and wake up in the morning and type it ALL out… eventually. Woke the next day and thought about typing it but…
The good thing about all of this is I recognize my shortcomings. I know that I want to HOP and SKIP right to the accomplishment. I know that I am futuristic and can see the end before there is a true beginning. Let’s forget the fact that it will take more than a treadmill run to get a 6 pick, and more than nihongo no websites to get me to having full fledged conversations with Grandma, and I can’t type faster than forty or fifty words per minute…
Anyhow, I know that I can get there eventually.
The first step would be getting off this couch, maybe a little crawl, and eventually a baby step. Just one at first. Then maybe two… then maybe I could stand still and adjust my balance, plop down and take a break.
Maybe I’ll get up.
Maybe I’ll just roll over and take a nap and dream that I made it with a hop and a skip. Who needs Baby steps?
There are times I go too far with my attempts toward accomplishment. I wonder if I were to do those short term goal setting things like the books suggest, if I’d get somewhere. It’s all my fault for coming up with that list of thirty damn things to do by thirty. I keep going straight to the long term goal…
Six Pack:
The time I said I am going to the gym every other day and I WILL run a mile. And, I did for a week or two, but then something happen, and that mile of running turned into a run walk run. Well, then just a walk… and now, it’s just a sit and watch TV. Haven’t been to the gym in months.
Japanese Fluency:
There was also the week that I studied Japanese everyday online (for a week) Because I just knew that I would be able to study myself to a level of proficiency that would allow me to get some job that wanted someone bilingual in the language. Hahahaha. I crack myself up. WHAT was I thinking???
Write something:
One night, I laid up and wrote a book in my brain. The entire novel… from preface to conclusion. SEVERAL hours later decided that I would get some sleep and wake up in the morning and type it ALL out… eventually. Woke the next day and thought about typing it but…
The good thing about all of this is I recognize my shortcomings. I know that I want to HOP and SKIP right to the accomplishment. I know that I am futuristic and can see the end before there is a true beginning. Let’s forget the fact that it will take more than a treadmill run to get a 6 pick, and more than nihongo no websites to get me to having full fledged conversations with Grandma, and I can’t type faster than forty or fifty words per minute…
Anyhow, I know that I can get there eventually.
The first step would be getting off this couch, maybe a little crawl, and eventually a baby step. Just one at first. Then maybe two… then maybe I could stand still and adjust my balance, plop down and take a break.
Maybe I’ll get up.
Maybe I’ll just roll over and take a nap and dream that I made it with a hop and a skip. Who needs Baby steps?
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