Tendencies for New Beginnings

Being the start of school and all, I thought it most appropriate to talk about new beginnings.

Lately I've had that urge/desire to have a whole bunch of new beginnings with some things in my life. Some of those areas of life would include: taking a more serious attitude towards school, being an accountable person for my family, reorganizing some rooms in the house, playing a new WoW character, starting a new job and cleaning my computer properly. I'll elaborate more about each.

1) Taking a more serious attitude towards school: It's pretty easy to say that in the past, I didn't really care much at all about how well I've done in school, as long as I passed the course. A few things have made me rethink this whole mindset. I'm begun to develop some innate fears that I'm not absorbing or learning the concepts well enough to be well equipped for my career. Also hearing a story from my friend Hilary, she wasn't able to graduate in the semester that she finished her degree because her GPA wasn't high enough to graduate. I had no idea that could even happen. Scholarships would also be nice and come in handy the more I think about it. And lastly, I know that I could kill some of the courses if I really wanted to, so I want to achieve a really high GPA just as a victory for my pride.

2) Being an accountable person for my family: I've come to the age of my life where I really need to start contributing or giving back to my family. That means spending time with them, helping with the chores around the house, and just being there for my parents or grandpa when I feel like they need me. It's becoming really clear to me about how much I've always been there for friends, to the expense of my parents. And now that I'm at the age that I am, with my two brothers out of the house, I really think my parents appreciate the time that we do get to spend together, let it be a simple conversation while watching TV, or having dinner as a family. I can tell this because I can see it in my parents' face whenever we do get to hang out, and by how much easier it is to talk to them about things other than 'safe, current event topics.' In all, I really enjoy talking to my parents and being able to do family things because it's something that we never got a chance to really do when I was young, without everything seeming forced.

3) Reorganizing some rooms in my house: I'm not exactly sure why it took me so long to realize how much fricken space we have in this house. With both my brothers out, and my grandma passed away, there are a whole bunch of extra rooms that have just naturally turned into storage rooms by default over the years. Most of the credit should really goto Chris because he's the one who initially got me thinking when he commented about how much he likes the setup for the downstairs entertainment room. It did take a whole bunch of time to set it up the way it is, but it's totally changed the way I can have guests over at my house. Also with Chris' talk about revamping his own basement into a study area and other things, it got me to think about the use of space around my house. So a couple things on the docket are getting the entertainment room in the basement cleaned up and easier to get around, cleaning the empty bedroom next to it maybe for working out or studying, and cleaning out the spare room on the main floor seeing as my dad uses that as a study. Just going back into that room and seeing all the random things I've holed up in there, it completely amazed me that I never thought about getting all of these things in order and getting some real use out of that space. I'm glad I don't work anymore.

4) Playing a new WoW character: Pretty self-explanatory. Not gonna pretend it's a healthy habit for me to pick up again, but everyone needs their way to spend free time. If anyone's wondering, it's a Draenei Warrior on a new server that I don't have any characters on. It's kinda weird not having the ability to get gold from any old characters or friends, but oh well.

5) Starting a new job: Even just the short visit back into the church office I made today to help interview another bookkeeper, despite the fact that it was for only 2 hours, it made me remember and realize how much I don't enjoy that job. I don't want to go into too much detail, but there's someone specific there that gets on my nerves, and the assumption that I'm always going to be available in case the church needs me. Anyway it's still in the air, but I may plan on applying for that Club Fit job on St. Albert trail for customer service rep. All I know is that if I do, it's gonna be a wicked awesome change from a job that I have to take home with me every night.

6) Cleaning my computer: Nothing really to talk about. My computer was getting slow, so I reformatted it. I did it actually just 2 hours ago, which inspired me to write this blog and started this roll of changes that I want to implement in my life. Hopefully my internet isn't as slow anymore, we'll see.

I wanted to blog more about the tendencies that happen when you're planning a new beginning, but I kinda rambled on about the actual things I wanted to do. So I'll try to sum it up as quickly as I can seeing as the blog is getting really long now.

This experience has shown me how big of a difference your frame of mind can be. With your mind being focused on a specific objective or goal, it really does wonders for how productive you become or how you spend your time. All these doors and opportunities start to appear out of nowhere, and you begin to wonder why you never pursued anything of this caliber to begin with. To sum it up, it's awesome....