Reaching for your goals

Current thought of the day: 

How are some people "hard-wired" to set a goal and reach it, and have complete success in there life no matter what they do? Is it something that they teach themselves early in life? Is it inherited from there family? 

I've been thinking about this because lately, I have been faced with school, work, and just overall trying to make some changes in my life. I have goals and expectations for myself, I always have but I feel as though I don't know how to achieve them. I look at everything in the big picture, and then immediately get overwhelmed. These range from little things to getting in the habit of flossing my teeth to not drinking as much coffee to big things like a career and getting into a good school. I tell myself "Ok, I'm only going to buy 3 coffees this week." By Wednesday, I've already had 4 coffees. I do believe that the whole coffee thing is self control mostly, it's not nessecarily as setting a goal to not drink them as much it's that I need to have enough self control to limit myself. 

I've heard quite a few times that you should write your goals down, you should journal etc. Which is one of the reasons I started this blog, to get my thoughts out even if no one reads it, it still feels good to get them out. Maybe each week, I should try to do a few weekly goals for myself and then also maybe a few short term goals like things happening in the next few months. Alright here are my current goals for the week( I know tomorrow is Wednesday, but my work week just started so we'll go from Wednesday to Sunday)

Weekly Goals 10/26 to 10/31

--Floss my teeth every day this week

--Drink coffee from home tomorrow and Thursday, then buy latte on Friday and Saturday only. 

--When I get out of bed in the morning, think about 3 things that I am thankful for. 

-- Turn off cell phone "unplug" for at least an hour every day this week

-- Take dog on walk on Thursday (since I don't work) and on Friday after work. 

Short Term Goals

(next few weeks/months) 

--Practice Fry's tips on how to study 

-- Get at least a 92% on psych exam on November 4th 

--Find an organization to volunteer for 

I will try and report daily to see how my goals are coming along and at the end of the week, I'll see if I achieved them and set goals for next week. 

Well that's all my thoughts for tonight, I have an ear ache...and a headache so I'm off to bed :) 

Dreary Monday

Happy Monday everyone!

 It is so nice having Mondays off from work now. I actually have tomorrow off too, not sure what I'm going to do all day since the weather has been so crappy, all I want to do is cuddle in bed with a blanket and the weather is only going to get worse from here. Well todays events consisted of: 

Lunch w/ Becky @ Rock City, so delicious!

Got my hair done :) 

And now I'm just watching Two and a half men, but I should be working on homework here pretty soon. 

Me and Becky stopped by Nordstrom after lunch and oh man so many cute things, but I refrained! Yay what an accomplishment! Thought i'd post a pic of my new hair color:

Here is before, mostly dark brown is usually how I have it.

Here is after, a little more reddish tint with a nice healthy trim. 

 

 

 

Also, I must recommend my shampoo ( I bought some more today), I have used it for the past couple of years and it is AMAZING! 

 Alright, thats all for now~ Homework time! 

Things I must do

It's 9:57pm, I don't have to work tomorrow and here I am, watching TV and blogging. After reading some blogs, I'm feeling inspired. Well and I'm feeling a bit scatter brained too. Here are some things that are currently on my mind that need some attention.

1. I really need to join a gym (again) Between reading Shape magazine, and my health and wellness class I am taking for school, I have to get into a healthy lifestyle and I know the longer I put it off, the worse it's going to get. I'm not worried about my weight at all, I'm perfectly content with being 5'3'' and 115 pounds but I would like to be more healthy, more energy, toned, and overall better well-being. So there thing to do 1. Join the gym by Friday. There should be no excuses, there is one literally 3 minutes away from my house.

2.  I also need a hobby...Other than going to school, working, watching TV, and blogging unfortunately those are not hobbies well I guess school could be my hobby but I need something to look forward to, to take my mind off things, and maybe something that will help me meet people. I believe Spokane might be lacking in fun, exciting things to do but what does everyone else do?? Well.. I can answer that question for people my age: Do drugs, have kids, and party. Hm..None of those things I am even remotely interested in. I've been thinking scrap booking might be a good idea, but my impression of it is mainly that it's expensive and right now, my focus is on getting my credit cards paid off, save for a new car, and get some money saved up so I can focus more on school, and not on working full time to pay bills week after week. 


Well Pretty Woman is on for the second time tonight, and I missed the beginning so night loves and ending with a picture of my little kitty cat Lucy because is sooo frickin cute when she's all curled up :) :) 

She's so precious! <3

Take my heart of stone...

I'm not going to commit to updating this blog...But I am going to try my hardest to update so here goes.

Maybe I should first explain the title of my post today. I have been recently got back into going to church, I absolutely love it and I have so much respect for people that have God in there life, and look to him for strength.

The pastor who talked today was actually the marriage counselor so I tried to understand what he was talking about but I have to say, it was a little hard to relate to except the very last part, actually the last prayer before we left. I'll post the whole thing so you can listen to it but it went like this. He told this story:

He used to be a registered nurse @ Sacred Heart before he became a pastor. He worked on the heart transplant floor and worked with a man named "John." John's heart was rejected, and the rejected heart usually gets bigger and "inflates" but he says that this heart got smaller and resembled a rock. Brian( pastor) later asked John if he could pray with him, praying for a new match. 6 hours later, Brian was informed that they found a new match for John. The ending prayer was letting God in our life and having him take our heart of stone, and replace it with one of flesh. This leads to my next topic..because right now, I feel like my heart is made of stone.
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My grandpa is in the hospital... I wish I were upset but I'm not. I don't even consider him "grandpa," to me, his name is Harry. My grandma died when I was 7 and he remarried, which our family has never really gotten along with her. Family dynamics are always a mystery to me. My dad has never really been close to his dad, and in turn, our family has never bonded with his side of the family because of this. We always dread holidays, get togethers are awkward, and phone calls are far and few between. His health has declined recently, he lost his sight progressively over the years, he's overweight which is causing a number of problems for him. Nothing he eats is without butter, salt, or fat so his health is obviously suffering because of this. He's been in and out of the ICU, in outpatient care, and back in the hospital. I haven't gone and visited him and honestly, I'm not going to. I have no sympathy for him or his wife, he did this to himself and refusing to see doctors because all they care about is money is sickening to me. I obviously work in the medical field, and without doctors what would we do? I have a lot of respect for them and wish that I had enough drive to go to medical school. He refuses to make the changes that his body and health needs, and he is suffering because of it. My dad is obviously very upset about it, but it's been hard to listen to it without just getting..frustrated. How can you or your signifcant other not care enough about your health and your well being? I feel like a horrible person for saying all this...but it's the truth, you can't help someone who isn't willing to help themselves and for him, I think it's too little too late. Even if he was to change his eating habits etc, it wouldn't be enough to turn his health around.