Posts tagged "goals"

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good bad helping people world goals life

Feb 02

I can’t help the bad in me.

Some days I feel down. Rather, I feel like I’ve let someone or something down. Not because of any identifiable reason or because it has been brought to my attention. Instead, I’m a little down because I feel like I’ve disappointed the person I want to be. The positive impact I’ve made in the lives of those around me and in the world is not enough to outweigh the negative and I can’t shake the disappointment I feel. It’s not self-pity or lack of recognition but rather acceptance that the day has ended and I didn’t achieve my goal for the day.

My only hope in my life is to be the best person I can be. I want to do more good than bad. Help more people than I hurt and generally try to be a person of good in the world. It’s not for a sense of satisfaction, even if I do get one from doing good, it’s not for praise or glory, it’s only because I’ve seen so much bad. I’ve been met with hate, I’ve been disappointed, I’ve been hurt and I’ve been alone and the world does not need any more of that.

I fail a lot at this goal. My emotions get the best of me and I create problems or let people down but I hope that no matter how many times I fail I keep trying. Most of all, I hope that people know that I try to do everything I can with a happy heart and for the good of those around me, even if it isn’t always clear. 


graduation goals read live have fun

Jun 13
So yesterday I graduated. I’m now the proud owner of a Bachelors in Philosophy from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona. Yep, I received a humanities degree from a polytech school. I always described Cal Poly as an agriculture school known for business and engineering that also has a humanities department. I’m setting some super cool goals for myself and they’re here for you to harass me about:1. Don’t get so down on myself. I’m lame in enough ways I don’t need to keep being so hard on myself.2. Be more artsy. Create more stuff. Doo eet.3. Take more photos for practice.4. Improve photography skills.5. Improve post-processing skills.6. Relax more.7. Read more.8. Be awesome.  All of these are after the whole get a job, study and do well on the GRE, get into grad school goals I also have. :) 

So yesterday I graduated. I’m now the proud owner of a Bachelors in Philosophy from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona. Yep, I received a humanities degree from a polytech school. I always described Cal Poly as an agriculture school known for business and engineering that also has a humanities department.

I’m setting some super cool goals for myself and they’re here for you to harass me about:
1. Don’t get so down on myself. I’m lame in enough ways I don’t need to keep being so hard on myself.
2. Be more artsy. Create more stuff. Doo eet.
3. Take more photos for practice.
4. Improve photography skills.
5. Improve post-processing skills.
6. Relax more.
7. Read more.
8. Be awesome. 

All of these are after the whole get a job, study and do well on the GRE, get into grad school goals I also have. :) 


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nice compassion goals notes of compassion change wordpress change

Jan 21
Nice v. Compassion

Day Two on my Notes of Compassion blog I question whether Niceness and Compassion can be mutually exclusive and set goals for the week.


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vincent van gogh doctor who the doctor matt smith pain beauty goals

Mar 04
To me Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular, great painter of all time. The most beloved, his command of colour most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
Vincent and the Doctor 5x10