Less Texting

New goal in life. Less texting.

Texting is totally awesome!

Honestly, when is texting ever considered good?

It is considered tacky if you ask a girl out via texting.

Texting while driving is deadly.

Texting while with friends is just rude.

Looking at your phone on a date is a sign of disinterest, usually people are checking for texts.
It takes so much longer to text than just call someone up.

Texting removes all forms of human interaction, period.

People don't really pay that much attention to your texts.

How easy is it to avoid a text message and not respond to it?

I have come to the conclusion that texting in general is just a bother. I know this because I text a lot, and I have noticed how little it actually does for me.

So that is why I am putting in to place my new goal, less texting all together. I can only think of a few rare situations I'm going to text:

1. When I need a quick answer.
2. Tell someone to call me if my previous call did not get through.
3. Make funny comments about mustaches with my friend while we walk around campus. Seriously guys, why do you have mustaches?

For now on, I'm calling, how else should a social butterfly like myself roll?

Making Goals into Habits

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."

- J.C. Penny

I like this quote, it not only shows that in order to become a great person, you must have goals, but also people with goals are the ones who become people who make history. And that is what I want for me, to become a person who makes history, well that requires making goals, and those goals must become our habits. Well here are my goals for 2011 that I want to turn into my habits . . . mostly, a lot of them are also just goals that will happen to change my life for the better, helping me to become what I want in the process. Just enjoy what I have written down!

Fitness Goals

• Finish the complete P90X exercise program one more time.
• Start a new workout program after P90X. (Possibly intensity)
• The idea behind all this is to just to continue as I have been at having a great fitness habit for my life.

Nutrition Goals

• Read at least two books on basics on nutrition.
• Learn to cook at least one new meal a week.
• Develop a favorite recipes book.
• Limit eating out to special occasions (yes ladies, that includes dates).
• Plan out my meals throughout the day to avoid eating out.

Financial Goals

• Reach designated amount in my savings account and keep it there (I'm not telling you how little money I have!).
• Contribute set amount to my retirement fund each month.

Social Goals

• Remember names much better than I currently do.
• Write them down.
• Say person's name three times in a short conversation that I have with the person.
• Remember at least one thing about the person that is unique to them that I can bring up next time I see them (hobbies, current personal events, etc).
• Rather than jump around a room like I usually do, stick to longer conversations with people.
• Certain dating goals - Those are a little more personal for me :)

Career Goals (This year I am getting much closer to setting life-altering career decisions, so they must be some pretty good goals for this year).

• Do everything possible to get a summer internship of my choice.
• Study for the GMAT to get in the 700+ range.
• Saturday is study day!
• Plus 2 hours per day until I take the test.
• Discover what would be great positions for me in my career
• List hard and weak skills to develop and focus on one at a time until I am fairly good at it, then move on to the next skill on the list.

Spanish Goals

• Practice with friends daily
• Perfect Spanish pronunciation.
• Learn one word a day.

Church/Spiritual Goals

• Weekly temple attendance.
• Memorize all scripture mastery scriptures.
• Reread entire Standard Works.
• Gratitude journal.

Studying Goals

• Review notes soon after lectures.
• Weekly note reviews to keep information fresh.
• Take notes as I read my books to better remember what I am reading.
• Memorize the terms as I learn the chapter, not a day before the test.

And there are a lot of my goals that I want to make into habits, of course I plan to continue to become awesome as I go along!