Edcel.net – mind games

When will I wake up?
I’m losing my discipline and I know I need to get it back.
I still have a lot of things to do.

Read that DSLR manual, reinstall my OS, blog about a preneed plan, start shooting, finish my projects in school, focus on one goal.

The last one seems to be contradicting. Wake up, Ed.

By The End of 2008

• Camera
• Credit card
• Passport
• Personal Computer
• Update my school records

I evaluated the list I created last year. I seem to have achieved the goals I’ve set upon myself. These material things I never thought I could have but I’m very glad I was able to get them.

Now I’m feeling a little bold so I’m going to create another list without really even thinking if I can get them all but they seem pretty manageable still.

By The End of 2009

• Digital SLR
• Laptop
• Trip Outside the Philippines
• Pay off My Old School Debts

It helped a lot that I was able to read Robert Kiyosaki’s book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. It was my eye-opener at times when I felt that I couldn’t when I could. It gave me the much-needed motivation in order to achieve these goals. Instead of thinking about how much was being spent, I should think about how what I need to do to in order to earn more than what I spend. In turn, I was able to buy some stuff that I wanted without compromising as much the things that I needed.

I’m also reading his follow up book “Cashflow Quadrant” which discusses the different types of employees and where we should be placed in order to have financial success. Though it’s still a bit long considering the mess that I’m in, the hope and the determination into doing something better than what’s expected of me is what I’m setting my eyes on. Which reminds me, I still have to finish the book so I can return it too. It’s been with me for almost half a year and I still haven’t finished it. Sheesh.

Sometimes I want to test myself in doing something I’ve never done before. That’s maybe part of my adventurous side of wanting to do and accomplish a lot of things while I’m still young. But in the end, will it ever matter? Is an online college diploma worth it? I know it will be… it should. Because when you look back, you’d rather live a life of scars rather than what-ifs.