One Month I
Today is the first day of month two of the year, and that seems as good of a time as any to update my yearly goals. I haven’t forgotten them yet, and have been working very hard at trying to keep them up, but not quite hard enough yet.
I went for an awfully long time before I even said a cuss word. Since then I have said a few, but I have been pretty good. The is only one instance that I thinkof that I was out of line with what I said, so that is much better than I was doing before the turn of the year. I figure now I can say some cuss words, depending on the company and context and everything, as long as it is not inappropriate or too vulgar.
The religion thing hasn’t been going so well. I feel like sometimes I am a better person, but not always. I still haven’t made it to church yet, so that is something I need to get on. So this is a negative so far.
I don’t know if that 3.5 is going to be possible, I haven’t had a clue in my physics class yet, but the rest I should be alright. I went to bed at an appropriate time for the first week or so, but even that has been getting later and later. I have been spending entirely too much money, eating not great, and not been very nice to my friends/ family. So I still have a lot of work to do.
The girl situation I am not sure how it is going. I don’t know what to think. But I suppose I just need to keep up what I have been doing.
Resolutions for a Revolution
Each year I make a list of resolutions and goals, and then I look into it again some time around July and realize that I am nowhere near the goals I had set for myself, but hopefully I can make this year a little different. I need to stay more focused on the things that have been improtant to me for so long, that I have blown off lately, so following this list will be a good way to start.
Stop cussing so much.
I cuss far too much each day and I have been getting worse. Words that I would never say because I felt they were too vulgar and too offensive have been slipping into my everyday vocabulary. Today was the first day that I tried that, and so far so good, I still am thinking a lot of curse words, but I have been pretty good about saying them aloud. Hopefully I can wean myself from even thinking the vulgar words.
Be More Religious
I went to Catholic grade school and high school, and was always pretty good about going to church and believing in what I was supposed to, but once I got to college and had all of these new ideas opened up to me, things changed. I still like to think that I am a pretty good believer, but I haven’t been going to any church services lately. For a while I was attending different denominations to see if I enjoyed their service, but recently I haven’t been going anywhere. I need to get back into the habit of attending some form of church service each week, and do the things that are required morally.
Try in school and on the team
This past fall I didn’t make too much of an effort for class, and my grades suffered a little bit. I should have easily had 3 A’s and maybe one B, or straight A’s, but I settled for an A, two B’s, and a C. My classes this semester are a mix of things that should be really easy and very hard, so if I stay focused, I should be able to pull off a 3.5 GPA. As for the volleyball team, everyday in practice I worked really hard, but in the weight room I didn’t always give my full effort, and I didn’t work out nearly hard enough for the first half of Winter Break. I need to do like I did my first year on the team, going in after practice and doing extra reps in the weight room and staying after weekend practices working on blocking and serving.
Those are my main three things I need to work on, I am also planning on trying to eat better, stop wasting so much money, going to bed earlier, and trying to be nicer to my friends and family. I also want to keep working on things with girls. I have been an idiot several times when I have talked to them, but I just need to be cool, which is a lot easier said than done.
Hopefully I can keep up what I started today for the first few months of the year, and when I check back up, I will be going swell. Only time will tell, but I need to force myself to work on it.
