Adnan's Endoplasmic Reticulum
REFLECTIONs Son
Why Must I Organize?
Why Are Deadlines Important?
How Do We Self-Motivate?
Plan
Track
Motivate
The perfect model to reach your goals.
I picked these 3 for semester 1 because they all connect to the daily story of my life.
Organization is so vitally important for me to keep my sanity. I always make overly ambitious tasks, goals, and promises to myself. Especially this school year, the amount of content I have to swallow is past the point of drowning. Scheduling is something I do on a regular basis and without the help of technology I would not be able to do anything. My reminders app in my phone is the saviour sent down by God for me. Organization for me is rather goal setting, goals give a sense of accomplishment and that in return keeps you motivated. I begin my process by setting long term goals, in the case of this year, 5s on all my AP tests(I took 3 of the lowest scoring), almost perfect on the SAT math section, get prepared for my first amateur bodybuilding show in Tokyo(If, I can get crazy shredded), and begin my own teen fitness youtube channel. Again a lot of things to get in the 6 month time frame I have given myself, but too bad, I just have to suck it up. These goals just went in priority basis for me and thats how would place them in my app. Then I would begin with monthly goals I have to achieve, then within that weekly goals I would have get to, and most important the daily goals that works to a habit that requires eventually no motivation to drive it, making second nature. All that I just explained to you is essentially a plan, a plan for what I want to achieve in my life. It all begins with organizing your wants into specific places in your life and giving them priority accordingly. In my case its academics because if I didn't care about so much, my parents would’ve have kept me alive.
Deadlines are the second part to my philosophy to success, and that is tracking your progress. I have always worked better when I have sure set of goals to achieve. Tracking keeps me both accountable to myself and to my promises. Tracking is a discipline I learned from bodybuilding, I had to keep a log of what I did everyday, that included keeping a workout log, and a calorie counter to make sure I was eating right. I was obsessed with gaining size so I did those things on a regular basis, then it just translated into a habit. Through this habit I learned that I can use these tracking habits I have to accomplish goals, because that is the essential idea of it. With the help of my apps, most notably the picture below from Bodyspace, an online fitness app. This app as helped me organize my goals and then track them, I give myself deadlines, like rowing 80kg by Oct 30, I track all my workouts with this app and then it tells me of my progress. All the little micro goals I set on the left are the ones the translate into my grand goal for this year. The image on the right is the goal I have set for myself two years ago and I look at this clock everyday and see how much I have achieved my goals on the bottom. Deadlines are very important in achieving goals in life, if you have true desire for attaining something then you know what you want it what chunk of time. I am not perfect there are certain deadlines I cannot meet, as you can see in the picture, maybe I did not work hard enough or it was too ambitious. Setting these deadlines you know what you are capable of in what expanse of time, it is all a learning experience, it not what you become but what you become in the journey.
The reason I have written in all these reflections in these orders because this how my system goes into order. We start with plan, a time where motivation is at its highest and you set goals that are a bit far fetched. Then you take your grand plan and place it into small goals to achieve, you track your progress and set deadlines for achieving those individual goals. As you are in the long journey of achieving a large goal you lose motivation, thats completely normal. The challenge with getting something done in life is that motivation does not get things done. My philosophy of self-motivation is just used as a stimulus to keep me on track. What gets things done is discipline, the discipline to train, work, study and hustle. The way I motivate myself is by achieving small short-term goals (ex:gain at least 1lbs per week, grand goal 15 lbs by 3 months). After I achieve those small goals and record it, I know that I have accomplished something and I am coming closer to my goal every time. These small achievements I make is the type of motivation I like to feel, because motivation to me seems useless, unless you do not have the discipline or magnificent obsession to go after what you are after. To me discipline and habits weigh heavier than motivation, but, motivation is nessacary to give you the initial spark to starts the fire. Once you start something you become obligated to yourself to finish it, and thats where discipline comes in, the constant supply fuel that keep the stove burning. The images people are graphs and my tracking summaries that I record on a daily basis. To see significant changes it takes an incredible amount of time, it is painfully slow, so disciplined work and tracking is nessacary to keep myself motivated. Having the opportunity to view progression is what motivates me to keep going.
