improve

I’ve been picked for a few really cool projects at work lately, so I think I’ve accomplished this one for now. I keep getting the sorts of things that we used to send out to real companies (at least in part because we used to have real budgets), but I also keep getting good feedback. People think I’m fast and good, which is a pretty awesome combination. I definitely don’t have the jitters and worries I used to under my old boss, but I’ve also realized that she was an awful person who liked causing jitters and tearing people down.

A few weeks ago, I was picked to work on this tiny little thing that kept annoying people over here. I don’t know how many people had worked on it, but at least four or five in different departments had taken a stab at it in two weeks and it all needed to go to air. When they dropped by in the morning to ask me about it, the client was definitely relieved, like they’d brought in the big guns when it was just me showing up as usual. So, yeah, I’ve accomplished this one. Not that I can’t get better, but I’m at least over the hump, you know?

First of all I have to say thank you to Eagle Eye who helped me to realise that it’s high-time I wrote a new entry for this goal, as all of the things I wanted to improve on, have been improved on.

Current things I want to improve on are as follows:
keeping in touch with friends
I’ve had the goal ‘make new friends’ for about 6 months now, but just because I finished school, and everyone split up and went off to uni doesn’t mean I have to write off old friendships, it just means I have to make sure I keep in touch with those who I can’t see as often anymore. I’ve kept in touch with a few people, but i’d like to improve this, and make sure I continue to focus on it.

not feeling lonely
It’s difficult being 18 and living in the country. I get time off work to visit people my age, but generally I need to be able to go a few weeks at a time and be able to not get lonely. I’ve struggled with loneliness for some time now. Usually I can manage it well, sometimes it gets the better of me. This last week has been particularly bad, but I was able to spend time with some friends today which helped and hopefully i’ll get to see Aaron this weekend.

saving money!
aaah i’m sure everyone wants to improve on this! I do pretty well generally, most of my spending is necessary spending only. I do spend the occasional dollar on something I could’ve gone without, but i’m much better than I used to be. It’s important I keep this up, so I have money saved for university! :)

completing my wardrobe
I’d like to have all the clothes I feel I need to have before I go to uni, so that i’m not tempted to spend money on clothes when I can’t afford it. I figure it will be easier to tell myself that I don’t need to buy more clothes if I already have enough. I’ve been visiting second-hand clothing stores, and today picked up 2 rather nice dresses for $7 each, also a few t-shirts, and some very cool shorts :)

^{My mind has gone blank… I’ll have to finish this another time :)}

i want more out of life. i’m not entirely sure what this means, i just know that my everyday experiences have lost their lustre and things are becoming more and more boring. i want to learn how to improve my experiences so i can experience everything to its fullest, put the zest of being alive back into my psyche. perhaps i’ll go sit under a tree for a day and not think about anything and it might come to me :)

even though I haven’t spent a lot of time actively working towards “improvement” per se. In my new job, I get much more interesting things to work on, and my design class turned out really well—I especially liked my final project, but there were a few projects that I thought turned out nicely. Taking a class was much better than telling myself that I should do things and then never quite following through.

I don’t know if I’ll keep this long-term, or if I should close it out now. It’s nice to have as a reminder, like “Simplify”, my top goal.

I am a good wive but there is ALWAYS room to improve.

I feel like this is one of my goals that just never gets any love…

My class started last night! It looks like it’ll be fun. Our first assignment was to make a “poster” with those old letterpress scratch off letters. I didn’t quite know what to make, but one of my neighbors had a font of icons for sports and leisure activities, so I made a bad night on dancing with the stars…

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I haven’t done anything serious towards this project, so I signed up for a design class that starts in September. Should be fun!

Everything is in our hands, so just want and do this :) We just need to realize this.

I took on a freelance project that involves designing actual things, so I’m going to let myself off the hook on this goal for the next few weeks. I have pushed myself to come up with more variations than the traditional three and I’ve spent much more time and been more careful about the design process than usual. It’s also nice to have more time. At work, I often get a day or two to create something, so to have a project that I work on a few hours a day over a longer period is a nice change of pace. Of course, I want my free time back…