Lololol.
Today is Green Day.
No, I'm kidding. Just that I happen to get a lot of Green Day stuff today. Like just now I was practicing for the show, and there was like two Green Day songs on my list. Then accidentally played Dearly beloved (By Green Day) when My Heroine was playing. Later on, I was at College Humor watching their awesome original videos. And there was this video
where the radio went totally metaphor-free on for a few hours and all the songs' true meanings were 'Revealed'. Then Longview came up andwatchthevideotohearthesickrealmeaning. Then I was watching friends when somebody said "I've slept with Billie Joe.....Well, who hasn't?"
okay okay whatever.
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Lol let me try to do a menacingly confusing post involving my psychological state of mind. Guess who I'm copying.. (Clement watch your eyes!)
Having a goal is something very important. Not having a goal, on the other hand, could lead up to disastrous results, or a deserted island. A lot of people say the journey is more important than the goal 'cause you learn stuff there, but in my opinion, going on a goalless journey is like a metal band doing a love ballad - Pointless and stupid.
Look at it this way. If for example if by any means possible you end up in a zombiepocalypse. You are escaping from a Class 4 outbreak- where zombies would have overrun the entire human race leaving only few survivors. If you are going to run away, just run away without a goal, you WILL end up dehydrating and a high chance of encountering the undead and end up as dinner. So in order to succeed in a mission, as insignificant as it may be, you must have a goal. What for you do 20 pull ups a day if you're doing it 'just for the heck of it'? There's a high possibility that you would reach a much more desirable result if you had set goals as you would push yourself further.
But a goal alone is not the most successful method of completing a task, because an unplanned journey and goal would end up as a failure. Planning is an essential part of everyday life and most oftenly, only takes a brief time to carry out. Daily, we think of our schedule, really quickly, on our way to school. What are we going to eat during recess, what are you going to do when that boring teacher starts to lecture on mannerism, are some of the things you always and often subconsciously do everyday. So now you see how simple planning could be, let's be more organized and write it out on paper-for the long term.
So according to the information above, a task, be it the most intricate form such as building a large hadron collider or a simple task like cooking, there are three parts to doing it - Planning (Or in some cases, preparation), Execution and eventually- producing a decent product. With enough and proper planning, execution would be a breeze and the goal would be reached. With a goal, planning would be a much rigid and solid one, preventing mess ups because you KNOW what you want and you know your limit.
So what about other people who plan for a living, like party planners?
These people are good if you want to have an easy way out, but there is never an easy way out. Although they are professionals, and their work might seem impressive, it would be best if you learn from them and use that skill for future purposes. Because you are the one who knows what you want, or your goal for that matter, so you can build your own way towards that place and hopefully end up as what you want. But these professionals, although unnecessary, could more often than not turn out to be your greatest allies and help you through in your early stages of deciding your goal and planning towards it.
Always have a plan B. Failed to make a perfect Lobster à l'américaine? Cook some instant noodles. Accidentally crashed the whole Wall Street index? Run away and become a farmer. Be it long term or short term, do not be overconfident of your work and always have a back up plan because what you think is so simple and easy to run might turn out to be your worst nightmare. So prepare a plan B before you actually do it. Keep it simple- around 20% of your actual plan's level. And if your plan B doesn't work, maybe that job isn't suited for you.
The final piece of advice is visual perception. For example you want to be the fastest typer in the whole world, you will achieve quicker results if you visually present that image in your mind oftenly, but not extensively. Imagination will help your brain see what you will look like if you achieve that certain task, cooking, building a card tower or even sleeping peacefully, and will eventually try to make you do what you are doing in the image you had formed. But too much of this type of stimulation would bring very bad results as you would be spending more time fantasizing rather than executing the main task needed for that goal to be reached. This action is similar to team building exercises as you build your morale and it will make you believe that your goal is very much in reach.
DAMN YOU HITLER. D:
IRREGARDLESS of what you say, this is still, not as long as YOUR post, psychologist.