31 Day Reset Day 2: Take an Honest Assessment of Your Life

Today I will have to take an honest assessment of seven specific areas in my life.

Lifestyle

Likes: I love that I am in the land the living.  I accomplished what most people haven’t and is grateful for my experiences.

Dislikes: I hate the fact that I still want to have the same social life that I had when I was 21.  “Crystal, you need to grow up”.

Education

Likes: As much as I talk about getting a refund for my degrees (BS and MS in Computer Information Systems); I’m really thanking God for them.  During my educational journey I was faced with many obstacles that I have overcome…especially being young, black, and not having any professional work experiences.  Now I want to go back to school to get a certificate to enhance my degree.

Dislikes:  I dislike the fact that I didn’t go with my first degree option.  I would have been an computer engineer. I tried to take the easy route….

Finances

Likes: I am content with my salary but know I can make soo much more.

Dislikes: I have bad money management skills.  I need to establish a budget and actually go through with it.

Health

Likes: I am making my health become an asset of mine.  I’m on the right direction to having a healthy lifestyle and becoming fit.

Dislikes: I hate that I was so comfortable with having an unhealthy lifestyle through the years.

Family

Likes:  I love that I can go to them whenever I need them.  We genuinely have love for each other.

Dislikes: I need to stick to my role….’I can’t be a parent to my mother and siblings’ and/or “a wife to my father”.

Relationships

Likes:  I have a great circle of friends that love me for me; I consider most of them as my siblings. I am starting to accept my situation of having a dormant love life. Now I am focusing on loving and feeling comfortable with myself.

Dislikes:  I wish that I can equally spread my love around to my friends.   I can spread myself thin sometimes.  I would really want a significant other now….like right now….but I promise that I am getting tested for patience and self discipline.  It is pretty rough.