My self makeover project
In the beginning of this course we were told to create six goals for ourselves and try to achieve them for the self makeover project. The self makeover project helped me realize a lot about myself and it really helped me improve my life and my college academics. During the self makeover project I created two goals for my personal life. My two goals were to wake up before seven a.m. and to not letter others get to me. I also had to create two academic goals. My academic goals were to study up to forty hours a week and to turn in all my homework on time. Lastly, we had to create two community goals. The community goals I had created for myself were to help out my neighbor and to volunteer at one community event.
I feel like I chose pretty good goals for myself since I was able to accomplish most of them without any real obstacles. I was able to help my neighbor out quite a lot since she is pretty close to my parents. My neighbor is an old lady who lives by herself. She loves to plant and over the summer she plants a lot. For the most
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I set a goal to wake up before seven every morning and I was only able to partially meet that goal. I set this goal because I had a speech class at eight in the morning and I didn't want to be late to it. I motivated myself into doing this goal by deciding I would reward myself at the end if I accomplished this goal. Sadly, I was not able to accomplish this goal. The obstacles that came in my way while trying to reach this goal were my lack of sleep at night and my procrastination. I would stay up late at night studying causing me to not be able to wake up in the morning. Ways I overcame these obstacles sometimes would be to push myself to study during the day instead of at night and to stop watching t.v. I would go to sleep at about ten p.m. every night in the future to help me achieve this