31st
Persistence and Goals
This is the end of my first month at this. Haven’t missed a day yet. Nearly have a couple of times, and what started out as an experiment has become quite important to me. I put off a bit of sleep for it, continually telling myself I will manage my time better to post earlier in the day. That would be a goal.
On to the topic. Both are important. Super important. But both require careful thought. You need one for the other, and its hard to get at the other without the one. If that makes any sense.
What I’m trying to say is creating goals for yourself are important. But thought-out ones. Goals that aren’t completely ridiculous, but not easy either, unless your strategy is to build upon simple goals to something loftier. But if you have unreasonable goals, you will fail, and become discouraged. That’s not too cool.
A good goal is creating something concrete out of something you are in to. Say, if you like bikes, perhaps building your own bike, then running a bike shop or repair shop. It’s good to sequence goals so you get some momentum going.
With momentum, you need persistence to get at the harder goals. Like running a bike shop, or one of my longer-term goals, running a design shop. These are the types of goals you can’t be naive about, and really need to ascertain what you know and don’t know. I found I didn’t know a lot about the business side of things, so I’m learning that aspect. Persistence will help you consider a goal from a few angles, so you can understand your strategy to attain it inside of a few scenarios. Like Fedor from earlier.
I have a goal with this blog to write something useful every day for 364 days. I’m 31 days in, and doing ok. I’m finding the more I do the more momentum I have, like I said before, and the more serious I take this goal.
So set your goals, and keep at them. Because the more you work towards them, even the smallest amount, the more you’ll persist to achieve them.
