Journal of Zak Ludick #77 - Building on your successes, a way to wing it forward.
I am Zak Ludick and this is my journal and documentation of my progress with goals on and off Steemit.
Sometimes when you set up a goal for yourself you bite off more than you can chew.
There may be many reasons for this and I am not going to try and list them all. What I will do however is highlight a popular cause of this issue we cause for ourselves: The disney/hollywood/pop-culture perception.
What I mean with this perception is that people relate heavily on movies. If you watch enough of them then you will start believing that they are relevant to how problems are solved. How wrong can they be? Most of the time the protagonist is special in some way, don't we all want to feel that we are the special one? Then there is a big goal. It is usually something ambitious and there are those that stand in the protagonist's way and ridicule him/her. Then through some perseverance and a bunch of cut scenes that are meant to speed up time, the character has grown and learned the required ability/skill in order to succeed where previously the hero failed.
All of this is bull, except for the work part. However, much like the movie Click by Adam Sandler, we cannot simply fast forward through the uncomfortable parts and reap the rewards. The misconception these movies cause is the speed and pain at which the result is obtained. It lures us into an expectation that success will be quick and easy.
Well it's not.
It's hard won. For a long time you will be a rookie, a noob, an amateur, a beginner, an average person, a skilled person and then eventually something better than that. It may take months to go from level to level and for something concrete to be built around that.
So it is vitally important that the goals that you built are chosen well and chosen VERY specifically. Even then you need to look at the steps you need to take in order to complete those goals and take a step at a time.
If you made it impossible to take the first step or the second to last step then you will sit with a made goal in your mind and consciousness that you never completed and it will weigh you down like an anchor.
Instead if you included steps and goals that you CAN complete then you will increase your motivation, speed and output!
Good luck to all of you, who use this method and re-evaluate your goals!
I am going to leave this list of items to work on here to remind myself:
- My Journal posts
- Steemcules the Strong - Diablo 2 Retro Gaming playthrough
- Raiders of the Middle Sea - Fantasy Fiction series (20 Parts so far)
- A new, interactive fiction series where the audience can influence the creation and actions taken by a character within my universe - more details later!
- More? Maybe. First let me get these projects up to full swing again!
Let's look at my account stats...
My Statistics
My account is now 147 days old (Established 11/01/2018)
Followers: 410
Author Posts: 160
Streak days: 27 (Since 13/05/2018)
Comments: 914
Reputation: 51.519
SP: 124.785
Steemit Goals
Short Term
Next milestone Followers: 450
Posts: 175
Streak days: 30
Next Milestone Comments: 950
Reputation: 52
SP: 125SP - ... Soon...
Long Term
Followers: 500/600>>>>1000
Authored Posts: 200/250>>>>500
Streak days: 40
Comments: 1000
Reputation: 55/60
SP: 150/200/250>>>>500 (Unlock the Slider!)>>>>1,000>>>>10,000>>>More?
Other goals
Exercise and get fit!
Slowly pushing my rookie numbers up!
20 Pushups
15 Situps
Until next time!
Regards
Zak Ludick