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LETTERS TO THE GRANDMASTER
Since
I started writing down my short-term goals, I’ve learned a few things about
myself. One thing I have learned
was that I have been going in every direction but towards a long-term goal.
There were times when I didn’t know what my actual goal is.
There were times when I was scared to make a commitment toward a
long-term goal. Sometimes I feel
like I was just wasting time.
Some of the goals I have
worked on in the past year are losing weight and staying g healthy.
I would have to say that this has been one healthy year for me.
Another goal was to finish college.
I stopped when my dad asked me to. Another
goal was to communicate better between dad and my brother.
Now I don’t talk to either one of them.
Over the summer my goal was goal was to learn how to become a chef.
This goal has carried me to my present occupation.
My last couple of goals have been geared toward my new job as a chef and
creating a budget. I have been
learning much and as fast about cooking and catering so I can move on toward my
long-term goal. I have been working
on a budget so that I can get out of debt.
For the first half of
the year I felt like I wasn’t doing anything for me.
I was doing things for everyone else for whatever excuse.
Maybe that is why I have always been such a placater.
Now my goals are geared more for me.
I also believe my
attitude has changed. I don’t
placate as much and I’m starting to look out for myself.
The only problem with this is that when I started to cut the umbilical
cord on everything I also cut it on my family.
It was the wrong thing to do. Now
it will take time to sew up, if it can be sewed up.
Also, besides my attitude change, I’ve also changed girlfriends. Besides making me very happy, she has always been there to
help me any way she can.
As far as my future
goals are concerned, for now I’ll be at the restaurant.
I have talked with the head manager and the executive chef.
We discussed me being sent to school by the restaurant since, of all the
people working there, I am the only one qualified to go to school.
I have a meeting set up with the owner to discuss being sent to school.
If for some reason this fails the executive chef has given me a list of
schools to apply to on my own and who I can talk to, to help my career.
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