Sunday, April 7, 2019

Assignment 26: Celebrating Failure

1.    My New Year’s Resolution was to eat healthy and go to the gym more often. Neither of those two things happened, sadly. I probably worked out less than 10 times this semester and have not stopped been eating to healthily. I have definitely failed with my New Year’s Resolution. 
2.    I learned that I might’ve set goals that weren’t quantifiable, and therefore, were unrealistic. From now on, I will make my goals quantifiable, like working out at least twice a week and only eating chocolate 3 times a week. 

3.    Failure is something we all can learn from. It definitely is hard realizing how badly I failed at this. This failure now has helped me learn how to change my goals so I can actually reach them. This class has changed my perspective on failure because I am more likely to take risks and am more willing to learn from my mistakes. I have talked to some successful individuals throughout this class who have mentioned how they failed once in their life but learned from that failure and moved on with their life towards where they are now. 

4 comments:

  1. Hey Kelly,
    I have also failed at going to the gym and eating healthier. It's definitely very disappointing but I believe that quantifying would actually help and maybe also always keeping your goal in mind. It's pretty hard to stay on track when you have a lot of things going on in your life so making this a priority is difficult but if you remind yourself of where your mindset was the moment you decided to make this goal then it would make it much easier for you.

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  2. Hello Kelly,
    I think a lot of people fall short of the New Years resolutions. Going to the gym is a very common resolution. I also wanted to go to the gym more this semester. In the beginning, I was keeping up with it, but once projects and assignments were due I was unable to go as often. I like how you pointed out we need to make realistic goals.

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  3. My New Years resolution has been to eat pizza only once a month. So far I broke it once by having pizza twice one month. Resolutions can be difficult to keep. I like how you learned in your failing. Making goals that you can reach might be better like you said. If you create small goal you can then expand on the small goals.

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  4. Hi Kelly,
    I'm sure this is extremely relatable to many college students because this is a popular resolution. Many people fall short of their resolutions but that happens to a lot of people, doesn't mean you are a failure.

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