Mind Mapping
For our Communications 14 class this week, we have to:
- list down our long term, medium term, and short term financial goals
- and post it on my very own blog
There is one thing that I am 100% sure that I cannot do is to write an essay, paper, or anything close. If making and writing a blog isn't hard enough, I've got to write down my goals for my life. I got to be honest, I don't really have goals for my life. Each day of my life, I set the bar so low that I wouldn't get sad whenever I don't reach my goals or whatnot. I am already a mess as I am. Will I subject myself to more internal torture and pain with placing unto myself a set of high goals to which if I do not achieve my life would spiral down? The answer to that question is a definite yes! All for the sake of fitting into what my community/society expects from me: a productive and jolly member of the society. Yey, me....
In making this financial goal plans, I realized why I didn't want to make it in the first place. It made me fantasize my future ahead of me. Everything seemed perfect..... too perfect. Living a life on a checklist or goals list seems cool and ideal but it isn't life. I agree that everyone should have a drive in living but being too consumed with fitting your goals to life isn't really living. Life is all about the unexpected turns and if you get sucked into your own fantasy then you wouldn't live a fruitful life. So with or without goals, people shouldn't be consumed by very rigid, fixed, or structured goals. Learn to live!
Thinking Hats
In the spirit of planning and deciding for our future, we also have to plan our stall for our little Communications project. Thinking Hats was an interesting way to plan. It involves role-playing of different characters in order to streamline and refine your projects. I am quite intrigued with it to be honest. My favorite was being the black hat because you can get really cynical and tear down the project to pieces. Our group has decided to go with a Chinese concept because it is the easiest to do. We also made this design of our stall but not everything is set in stone yet.
