Discipline

I am a goal-setting person. Without setting goals for my day, a day can pass by quickly and I accomplish nothing, which makes me feel discontent. Recently, I have been reading The Hunger Games. It's a fantastic book that it will just drive you to continue reading until you finish. That's not good. It completely interrupt my plan! I have a speech to deliver just in a couple of days, but I can't help reading it! Sometimes I'm so tempted to think that it's okay since I'm having a summer break. In the mean while, I have another voice telling me to start preparing my speech. Finally, I came up with couple of solutions.

Reward Myself

It's hard to tell myself keep working the whole day. When you think of it, you would instantly feel that's going to be hard, and then you really don't want to do it. So, why don't you tell yourself to work on things you need to do first, and you can reward yourself with some time of leisure? I plan to work on my speech for one hour, and then I get to read one chapter of Catching Fire. It doesn't sound so hard as working all day with a few hours of reading time just before bed time.

Finding Back my Motivation  

When you are distracted while you are trying to pursue your goal, think about why you want to reach your goal in the first place? I made myself to deliver at least one speech a month, and I know it's for my own sake. If I fail to accomplish this month's goal, sooner or later I'll regret it. Then why would I even want it to happen in the first place? 

Stop Whatever You're Doing and THINK

When you're lost, and don't know what to do, just stop. Put down everything you are working on, put on your sneakers and go for a walk. Moving around, changing the scenery, and breathing in the fresh air help you to generate ideas, sometimes you can even come up with solutions that you never thought about. 

The most thing that I desire to do is finish my speech and deliver it smoothly on Wednesday!