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After a long several months in self isolation due to Covid-19, I am now finally back in school and will be updating more. Setting goals can be stressful. Setting goals about managing stress is a whole different level of stressful. But, looking at the long term makes it a little less scary. If I can set goals to better my mental health, then I can soon make goals to better myself even more. While consistency and structure help keep me in check, they also cause a sense of fear and panic, because I beat myself up if I don’t meet my own or somebody else's expectations. But by setting small goals to tiptoe outside my comfort zone, it will push me to try harder.
So to start, I made a goal for myself that has two baby goals to help me achieve it. I want to take steps to improve my mental health. To start, I want to work on lowering my stress levels at home by working harder in class on assignments so I have less homework. This will help me, because I know I’m bad with getting work done from home. To help me achieve this I am going to spend less time checking my phone and take at least 15 minutes where I work hard with no distractions. While I’m an easily distracted person, I’m going to take all distractions off my desk and close all unnecessary tabs on my laptop. As I can’t stay focused on a task for very long, I’m making this goal 15 minutes long for every class which adds up to an hour of fully uninterrupted work. While this may not seem like a lot, this should help me get more work done and hopefully in the future I can spend more time focused on a task. And my second goal is to start taking walks everyday. This would really help me feel better about myself and I’m supposed to take my dogs on a walk everyday anyway. I will take my two dogs for 30 minute walks each, every day. An hour walk a day seems reasonable as it isn’t too much time, but enough to get some fresh air and exercise. I also made an academic goal for myself to help me in my V.A.M. Academy. I would like to create more art. Over the 6 months up to September, I didn’t do much drawing or painting. I found it difficult to sit down and think of something to draw and I would get frustrated when it didn’t look the way I wanted. To achieve this goal, I am going to make one sketch a day in a small sketchbook. Whether it looks good or not I'm going to spend 20 minutes drawing and if I like what I’m drawing, I'll finish it. But I have to draw for the full 20 minutes even if I get discouraged. The sketch can be whatever subject, but always a pencil drawing. If I finish the piece, I will line it and color it with whatever medium I deem fit. Every Friday I will take a larger 8.5” by 11” sketchbook and do a larger drawing that I must finish. It must be done to my standards, lined and in color. I’m hoping that this will help me improve my art skills and get back into art. While making goals can be stressful because you’re worried you won’t achieve them, they are still good to put in place so you have some kind of direcion with what you want to do in your life.
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