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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • Took a class in college called “college success”, and it was literally a class on just getting your shit together. A lot of the information was stuff that everyone already knows, but having it actually spelled out, defined, and being shown how it positively effects your life was absolutely game changing for me.

    SMART was one of the first lessons. I don’t look at the whole acronym for setting goals anymore, but the ones I do focus on are measurable and achievable - it doesn’t do you any good to say, “I want to build my savings up” or “I’m gonna grind hard, take 20 units this semester and graduate a semester early”. You’ll never feel like you’ve built your savings up enough if you don’t have a specific goal in mind, and setting unreasonable goals to “push yourself” will just make you feel like a failure, even if you knew the goal was unattainable (I’ve always hated the “shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll hit the stars” attitude - I set reasonable goals, and when I achieve them, they are raised. Setting a goal you know you can’t reach is almost always going to demotivate you from ever trying to reach it)









  • pub 1993

    Oh wow, so it’s been a thing for a while now.

    A quick search shows that it is still a thing. However, I’m reading stories from former service employees that are saying that (at least with their company) it was a program, and offered employment to prisoners when they got out, which is good. Not to pretend that it’s a-ok to underpay them while they’re in, but if it gives prisoners a legitimate avenue of employment upon release I can’t shame it too harshly