Well hello! It’s about that time for an interview refresher. If you’re new here, welcome to Normal Talk. This is the space that I have given myself to talk about something unrelated to the regular blog cycle, and to provide what little knowledge I have to the world. In this Normal Talk, I will be discussing the act of taking advantage of baby steps in order to get closer to your goal.
I am not an organized person, nor do I think I can ever be an organized person. So that I don’t start off too self-deprecating, I will tell you am. I am the personality hire. I will bring positivity to the room, an uplifting and easy going spirit, and I will make your day if it’s the last thing I do. But if we are hanging out outside of work, I won’t be on time. You can expect that I will be 5-10 minutes late on a good day. I have never been good at keeping up with a calendar and while we are being transparent, I just started consistently making my bed. Go ahead you can clap for me now.
All joking aside, becoming more organized or more eloquently put, “getting my life together” has been a goal of mine for a long time. I admire the influencers that I see always drinking water and green juice, having a pristine apartment, and consistently going to the gym. I go through phases where I will see other people doing these things and strive to them myself, where I hold myself back is I try to do these things all at once.
There was one particular semester of school where I deemed that season of life “hot girl season.” Disclaimer! This does not mean what you think it means! To me, hot girl season was encouragement for me to accomplish my goals. I would tell myself that hot girls do their homework, hot girls are on time, got girls always have a clean room, hot girls go to the gym, blah blah blah the list was at least 3 pages long. I put so much pressure on myself to transform overnight and, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that was my least productive semester of my life. I got the worst grades I had ever gotten, I slept in late, quit going to the gym after the first month, and completely gave up on keeping a clean environment.
While I can blame several other factors for this being the case, the one thing that I noticed to take credit for the issue was the pressure that I put on myself to do everything all at once. I put the entire buffet on my plate and felt immediate defeat when I couldn’t accomplish any of it anymore. My inability to accomplish my goals became debilitating and I have up on every single thing on my hot girl list. But don’t you worry! This story has a happy ending!
I decided to take a different approach when aiming to accomplish my goals. This new, different, fun, and some might say cool and completely unheard of approach is called (you guessed it) baby steps. Instead of creating a monster list for myself to complete under impossible circumstances, I just released all pressure on myself and decided to approach my list slowly and by doing it how I do things best, in a spontaneous and unplanned way.
It all started this semester when I moved to an apartment that I loved and needed to keep clean. The common living areas have always been kept clean and this inspired me to take the same energy to my room. Since the common area was always clean my room would look out of place so I began consistently cleaning my room and (guess what!) making my bed! Since I had a nice, clean apartment to come home to, I had a nice area to do my homework and be productive (I am currently writing this from my favorite chair in my living room). Once I began to be on top of my work, I wanted to start eating healthier, which has encouraged me to buy groceries and to stop eating out. Once I began to eat healthier, I wanted to do something that would be good for me physically and emotionally. Running was too much pressure and I approached it as a punishment rather than something that is good for me. So in order to make physical activity something that I can enjoy, I began to go on walks, which has improved so many different aspects of my life. I feel better about myself, my overall attitude has improved, and it gives me something to look forward to day to day.
So as you can see, approaching my goals by using baby steps has greatly improved not only my lifestyle, but my outlook on life and how to accomplish my goals. Next time you have a goal, try approaching it one small step at a time, and see what improvement you may notice.
Thanks for listening and we will see you next time,
Dear Normal
