Goals Revived! - And Pwning Life 2.0

So I was in my Student Development class and can you believe the subject? It was goal setting and on my teacher's PowerPoint, he had stated that there are 6 types of goals:

• Social - I want to get married by age 24. Basically anything that has to do with your social life.
• Academics - Ex. I want to get this GPA by September 25.
• Religious - Ex. Pray 2 times a day.
• Personal - Ex. I want to write a novel by the time I'm 50.
• Physical or Health - Basically like losing weight, or and other health related goal.
• Financial - Anything based on money. Ex. Make $1000.00 a month.

And my college professor also stated that there were six characteristics of goal setting. When he brought that up, that caught my eye because most people set goal that are too far-fetched. They set a goal that they most likely wont complete because it sounds like an impossible goal. So if all of your goals had these six characteristics, they would work and you most likely could accomplish them. And these six characteristics are:

• Believable - Is this goal possible for me to do?
• Measurable - How long do I have to complete this goal. Can I complete this goal in a lifetime?
• Adaptable - 
• Reasonable - Is this goal something I could complete?
• Controllable - Can I control whether this goal happens? Example of a non-controllable goal: The New England Patriots will go to the Super Bowl this year.
• Desirable - Is this goal something that I anxiously want?

"You'll notice that Believable and Reasonable are kind of the same thing."

And then now for the difference between a good goal and a bad goal.

Women and Your Goals

Women can really effect how you go about doing your goals and everyday tasks. For instance, if you lose your woman, chances are that you will feel different than normal and the goals you want to accomplish won't get done. But we just have to look at the bright sides. Losing a woman doesn't mean the end of the world as we know it. It just means that we need to try harder and find the right person that will like you for who you are.

However, in my case, I've found that Miss Right. She even helps me and motivates me to complete my goals. Sure there are some days where I just dont feel like doing anything, those are my LAZY moments/days. But on my regular days, I try my hardest to stand up and do what I have to do to my life and my girlfriends life the best they can possibly be. For starters, here is my goals list for the week of April 18-24.

1. Fix the front lawn (Destroy all the weeds and put grass seed)
2. Create 1 or 2 videos and upload them to YouTube.
3. Take my girlfriend out to eat.
4. Get my hair cut and be ready for prom on Friday
5. Finish my FAFSA application
6. Take my Math placement test for college
7. Start working out

And here starts my long term-ish goals.
1. Slim down (Gotten fat over the year) <----So you can say Workout.
2. Put this blog on its own domain (Meaning get its own site name and not end with ".blogspot.com"
3. Start promoting my YouTube videos
4. Get a job
5. Start a Pwning Life (or Owning Life) group in my community college
6. Meet my girlfriends parents (a very hard thing to do)

Lastly...
HAVE THE PWNING LIFE GROUP BE KNOWN NATIONWIDE (US & CANADA)!!

But as you can see, these are REASONABLE goals to do. Most people say they will TRY to accomplish their goals. But TRYING isn't enough if you're part of this group. You have to be committed to make a difference in your life or somebody else's. So there is no "I'll try" there's only a "I will" in this. And as long as I follow that code, goals will get done, my life will get better. And hopefully somebody else's.

Pwning Others

This week will be a change than the other weeks before. This time, I'm talking about "pwning" others. And what I mean by "pwning" others, I don't mean own or destroy, I mean to help someone else achieve their goals and dreams.

The reason I am covering this topic this week is because I recently talked to this girl, that has been having some issues with others and her own self. She told me that others had been treating her differently because of her looks and weight. Now don't get me wrong, when it comes to weight, it's a huge issue. But in this case, if you look at her, she doesn't look "fat" or "big" in any way. She's even a cheerleader at her school. But yet she still gets treated by people over there.

So in a few recent conversations with her, I asked "what would make make you feel better? She said the same answer that most of us in this situation would say "for them to stop". And I decided to take her another direction. Since most people like that don't just stop bullying, I decided to show her a modified version of Miltownkid's "goals" routine. I said that if you want them to stop treating you this way about your weight, then I'm gonna get you on an exercise plan that I'm sure we all have heard of. I told her to do the the following:
1. Workout every other day.
2. Eat healthier or get fruits like grapes if she feels the need to pig out.
3. Set a start date and weight.
4. Set an end weight and period of time that she wants to achieve this.
5. Take a photo of her current self (As a "What I used to look like)
6. When she reaches halfway through to her target and to her target take another picture.

And the part that motivated me the most to make this post was that last night I talked to her again, she said she had worked out and taken the picture. When she got done, she said she felt great. This shows that if you set your mind to make a change, that you can make yourself a happier person. You just need the boost or help to do it.

So in the next weeks I hope to continue hearing her input as to how she feels day by day. Pwning life is not just about making your life better. It's also about helping others make a change.
So until next time everyone.

Week 3: A New Step Forward

I did notice that based on the goals I had set for my first week, all of them were pretty much long-term goals. Or some of them I couldn't do during the winter blizzard weather. So, for this week I have devised some new goals to follow through with, hopefully most of them are short-term and can be completed in a matter of days rather than months.


So anyway, here they are:

1. Go for a walk every day, regardless of the weather (except thunderstorms and obvious extreme weather).
   
2. Finish Date of Birth project
   
3. Get a job
   
4. Not having to rely on people to get things done.
   
5. Eating healthier and doing simple home workouts.
   
6. Clean my room and the basement thoroughly
   
7. Find any binders and other unneeded portfolios and empty them allowing future use.
   
8. Make videos for YouTube on a regular basis
   
9. Start my Reviewing iPhone Apps segment of my channel on YouTube
   
10. Move this blog from blogger to its own domain.
    
11. Lose weight and gain more muscle.
    
12. Get a new computer for future graphical and video work.
    
13. DREAM GOAL: Get a 27 inch iMac or Dell Studio XPS 9100
    
14. Launch the Pwning Life official podcast or vidcast of some sort.
    
15. Buy an HD camera or camcorder.
    
16. Write daily about ideas for future videos, or topics to post.
    
17. Hopefully relaunch my TechforConsumers blog that I've neglected.
    
18. Lastly but not as important, buy and Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
    

Sorry for such a long post, but I had to get everything out. All of these goals will most definitely take some time. But they will get done.

Now as for the podcast/vidcast, go to the official MilTownKlan Forums by clicking the "MiltownKlan Forums" combination of words that's blue.

Until next week everybody. PEACE!