Robyn

are not my favorite days.  I am committed to two teaching jobs a week, on Wednesday I teach fairly close by–remedial English, which is part of a FISAT project. Yesterday, I underestimated travel time and ended up missing the class all together (the first of the new semester).  My bad.

Today I teach at a big Elementary school in Taipei City. Claire, assistant teacher, will accompany me. It is a 1.5 hour class, with a mixed group of kids, a big class, and I hate having to perform and keep everyone inspired and learning English.  Thus, Thursdays have become my least favorite day of the week.

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Currently I am working on a new I.M. Challenge–setting up ten websites in one month, complete with five posts, supporting articles and linking.  It’s fun.  I am lagging quite a bit this week though, as I haven’t really done as much as I had hoped. Today all I managed to do was to get a few link exchanges going (I give links to people in exchange for links from them) and write about three blog posts and one article.  It was only the morning, but I can really do a bit better than that.

I am learning not to set financial goals, such as “I will make such and such an amount of money this month”, but to rather set accomplishment goals, “I will write this many articles per day, or a total of this many per month.” Money is transient, you have good days and not so good days (no $/hour pay with this!) thus if you set your goals on money and for some reason you don’t make that much, you can end up getting quite depressed, especially if it happens a few days in a row.  You do not have control over how much money comes in on a daily basis, you do have control over the amount of work and writing you do each day. Set your goals on something you have control over, that way it avoids the emotional roller-coaster that success or failure tends to set you on. It is dangerous if you really have no control over it. If you have control, on the other hand, you know you only have yourself (or outside circumstances) to blame, and it is much more rational and understandable.