James's Notebook

                In my latest post titled The importance of goals I talked about how I make goals for myself, in this post I will discuss why it is important for me to make them. The main reason why I make goals for myself is so I could learn new skills and to improve my current skillsets which allows me to better myself. The next reason why I make goals for myself is because I love to have the feeling of accomplishment, and the reason why I enjoy this is because I like to see and feel the fruits of my work becoming a reality. The last but certainly not least reason why is that I could learn from my mistakes or in some cases failures to get a better understanding of a subject. To sum this all up I make goals for myself because I enjoy learning new ways to improve myself by learning from my mistakes, I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment when I reach them.

                          Something that I believe that we all struggle with is making and accomplishing goals, the way that this could be challenging for me is that sometimes I struggle with keeping my goals realistic which causes me to not be able to accomplish them. but the way that I have overcame this challenge is to first recognize something that I would like to accomplish, a great example of this would be when I first started martial arts and I wanted to become a black belt, or when I started to do the congressional award. then the next thing I needed to do was to  understand that I am responsible for my actions and my approach to each and every challenge I have in my life, I learned that with this type of mindset I gain a better way of seeing each challenge that I face in my life as opposed of seeing it as impossible and something that could never be done. Then I will take the time to find the necess...