List of Goals

Ok, so here's my list of goals:

 

Information-gathering:

listen to minimalist music

learn about Eurythmics

learn about Kindermusic/Montessori/Orf/Kodaly

learn about Boston

learn about Circ de Sole

think about film scores

learn about other people's jobs in music/arts

learn to make use of all the resources in my school and city

learn about possible schools for next year

 

My Work:

work with D (the dancer)

learn to play marimba really well

compose regularly

take lessons with great marimbists in Europe

plan a recital

connect with musicians here--do performances

make a decision for next year

learn how to wrap mallets

 

Travel:

visit M in Venice

visit A and M in Madrid (visit Barcelona)

visit X in Netherlands

meet up with D

 

Personal:

connect with my family

visit my feelings

go for walks

eat healthy foods

swim

salsa dance

work really hard

learn to work OR relax (one or the other)

meditate

 

Other:

study Czech

listen to Janacek

start to write stories about my travels

listen to jazz

improvise on marimba

 

 

What I'm doing right now, is that I've started a notebook dedicated to career planning.  I've realized that one of my biggest problems right now is that I don't have enough information, and I'm unable to make decisions because of this.  So, I'm spending a lot of energy on gathering info.  I have one page in the notebook which is a list of things I need to get info about before I can make some decisions.  I'm finding it's helping me a lot, and I'm writing step by step how to get the info--similar to SARK's micromovements method. 

 

Right now I'm feeling like there's just too much..like I don't know how to organize my goals and movements.  I'd like to figure out how to make weekly goals and daily goals, and how to plan my time so that the most important things get done.  I attempted it this week, to make weekly/daily goals, but unfortunately most of them didn't happen because they were just too big and there wasn't enough time. Maybe with practice you can get better at making reasonable goals and achieving them?

 

Alright, I'll do the 10 lives exercise soon!!

 

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What To Do With Your Life

This weekend while I was in Seattle I spent a lot of time at the airport and on public transportation ... so while I was waiting I spent some quality time with Barbara's book. Let me share some of the thoughts, topics and exercises I found particularly helpful:

1) My problem has always been that I like too many things: whales, kids, traveling, helping people, painting, math, usability, etc. I can't seem to make a decision career-wise. What should I study in school? What do I want to do with the rest of my life? - as soon as I start focusing on one field (teaching, human computer interaction, architecture) I feel trapped and switch interest to another field (marine biology, international education, social work). My problem is I lack COMMITMENT!

Of course - I'm afraid of closing doors and never giving myself the opportunity to figure out what I truely love and feel passionate about. So as soon as I settle on something I switch to something else out of fear. But what I need to realize is that diving into a field and mastering it is important. It'll give my work more meaning. And if anything, getting really good at something will open up more doors. I still want to use the next year to explore and learn more about the fields I'm interested in but once I choose a field to study I just need to go for it.

Figuring out what to choose is still going to be tough. Yesterday I was reading a funny article about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (the Daily Show guys) in Rollingstone Magazine (I really like adding all of these links!) .. here's a quote from Stephen Colbert about how he figured out being an actor was his path: 'I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage and I'd think, "Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene, I don't care. I'll do it again." I took that as evidence ..." I think he's right, finding something you're willing and wanting to spend long hours on might be a good indicator of where your passion is.

2) Here's an exercise for us - if you had 10 lives what would you do with each one? I think we should each do this one and then I'll ask the next questions from the book to help us figure out a plan for our futures.

3) How would you feel if the job you have now you had to do forever? When I did this exercise I realized what I don't like about my job now is there's never an end. I work really hard to bring in more revenue for the company and if I do that's never good enough - the company always wants more. I don't like that I never have a finished product and I don't like feeling that I can never really succeed. It's always import to improve your work but in online advertising where limitless amounts of money is involved, greed gets in the way and people always want more.

4) Finding meaning in work - you need to find something that matters to you. If you don't care about what you're doing you're not going to put all of your energy into it ... I like to give a project I'm working on my complete attention but I've found it impossible to do so when I don't really care about the goal or the process itself.

5) Remember that results are not immediate.

Okay, more later!