With the coming of August, Sarah and I have decided to set some new goals to keep us moving forward. We're both pretty dedicated and determined people. Sure, we love lounging with ice cream and popcorn and novels and TV shows. We love lazy Saturdays and naps and goofing off. But we're also pretty goal-oriented and passionate when it comes to things we're interested in, and we're both endlessly curious about the world around us.
We've already got a pretty good system set up for goal-setting (we both make plenty of to-do lists and such), but we wanted to push ourselves a little further, so we sat down and came up with five categories apiece whereupon we want to focus our educational efforts over the next six months. (I think this is particularly important right now, given that we're both taking a break from school for a bit.) Sarah decided upon kanji (and general Japanese proficiency), news & current events, music history & theory, fitness & health, and indexing & family history; I went with linguistics, languages, news & current events & history, music history & theory, and coding.
I'll likely be detailing our adventures with these goals in the coming weeks and months. I just wanted to get a post out about it before we really start getting into it. Today's my first day working on these goals, and so far it's going pretty well: I've studied some Welsh vocab, read a few articles from my RSS feeds about politics and current events, started the first basic HTML course on Codecademy, and am currently listening to the first episode of The Lyrichord Early and Classical Music Podcast, which is fascinating thus far. Wish us luck!
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