Five weeks ago I picked four goals to pursue throughout my stead here at college. Each week I have made progress, and this is yet another update regarding that progress. I can definitely say that progress seems to come more easily now that I have fallen into my routine and have begun to find my niche. I also think that the season has helped to improve my mood, because I love the last-year seasons and the holidays of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. There’s just something about it being cold outside, but being in the company of good people inside. But, I digress. Back to my goals and the progress I’ve made towards accomplishing them.
I’d have to say that out of all my goals, I think I’ve made the most progress in trying to accomplish my goal to study for classes. I’ve already done things such as making flashcards, taking notes as I read, reading notes before classes, and flagging passages in books. I think that through the time that I’ve spent studying, I’ve now gained the ability to study when there are lots of distractions around me. Initially, because I never used to study, when I did study, I always needed complete silence and I couldn’t tolerate any distractions. Distractions used to throw of my focus and they made it very hard to regain my focus and to continue studying. Those days are over now, because I feel as though I can study in any condition, which has most likely developed just through practice. There is not a moment where my roommate is in the room and he is not blasting music, so I’ve had a lot of practice with studying in distraction-prone environments.
My second goal, which is to be more open towards others and comfortable with myself, is progressing fairly nicely. Every day that goes by here at college, I find myself being able to talk and open up to more and more people. College seems to be a good place to try to accomplish this goal, because there are so many people here. I’ve found that I have unintentionally modified this goal throughout the progress that I’ve made throughout the year. This goal has basically become: talk to a new person every day. I feel like it would be a shame if I didn’t capitalize on the opportunity to talk to and learn from so many different people. The town and school where I come from are so small, that I literally knew everybody in my graduating class personally. So the larger numbers of people here at college presents more of a challenge because I know that I’ll never know everybody, and chances are that I’ll never even say “hi” to everybody. I think that talking to a new person every day will make my goal of being more open to others much easier to accomplish, and consequently, make me happier while I am here at college.
I have also made progress towards accomplishing my third goal, which is to clear my mind of negativity and to focus on the positive. Like I talked about earlier, the season has helped to improve my mood, which makes it easier to relax, which then makes it easier to clear my mind and to focus on the positive. The season makes me think about the good times, rather than thinking about any work that I may need to do. The holiday season just makes me much happier, which then makes it easy to replace any negative thoughts with the good, cheery thoughts of the season. I didn’t have to do much this week in order to clear my mind of negative thoughts because the season has done the job for me, so I only feel better knowing that I didn’t have to do too much to make progress on this goal for the week.
I suppose that you could say that I am one of those people who believe that their mood changes with the seasons. I love fall and winter, like summer, but usually detest spring. I think one of the best things about the fall season would definitely have to be the return of pumpkin spice-flavored foods, because I love most anything that is pumpkin spice-flavored. When you combine the fall foods, the beauty of nature, the holidays, and the start of sports such as football and basketball, fall is truly a great season; especially for accomplishing my goals. The fall season always reminds me of one of my favorite songs: The Thanksgiving Song, by Adam Sandler. It’s a funny song, but it really gets you in the mood for Thanksgiving, which I can’t wait for.
*(The video doesn’t show Adam Sandler actually performing the song, but the audio is there)
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