Title: Your own goals may conflict with your friends, partner's or your parents, or even your bosses

Hello World,

Feels like I havent written you in a long time..Don't worry your heads, I am still broke.,, But, I have been busy working for the past few days..no, not for a career type job that requires a degree but for my part time job that a teenager could do. Nevertheless, I am happy that I have it and I got more hours recently. As you guys may know my two main goals this year is to repay a lumpsome of my debt and to move to Germany. For both I need money, but I feel like whatever your goal is it probably has something to do with money unfortunately so making it is critical... Like one of my softer goals this year is to loose some weight since I have previously been turning into a chunky monkey but nutritious foods cost more money. I have definitely grown an appetite for better foods but I cant always buy it or as much as I would like too. Yesterday, I went shopping and I all I could buy really was some eggs, almond milk, oat cereal and my Greek yogurt (oh and I decided to splurge on some strawberry and vanilla wafers because I need a sugar fix once in a while). What I realized about life this week is that we all as individuals are working on goals weather you think another person's goal is stupid or not does not matter. Sometimes goals conflict and actually have a hand in throwing us off our individual goals. The quicker one realizes this, the quicker they will be able to put their head back down and forge forward to their other goals. (p.s. sorry if I come of a little war like today I have been watching way too much Spartacus .lol)..,.But really, here's an example ... one of my closest friends is about to get married this summer and I am one of her bridesmaids. Her goal is to pull of a great and wonderful wedding with beautiful bridesmaids dresses all matching. Yes, I want my friend to have an excellent wedding and I hope she achieves her goals but here is the thing the expense of the dress she wants me to purchase directly affects my own goals. I will have to spend money that will cause me a great set back. I want to go to language courses for this other country, I want to get new glasses because my eyes are so week and I want to go to the dentist to fill my cavitities plus I have a proposal debt repayment agreement that must be paid every month. Will I be able to save for all of these things with a part time job and really expensive bridesmaid dress to be purchased this month NO?

So I try to negotiate with my friend and try to make her see that I am willing to inconvenience myself just not this much. She is probably mad at me because our goals conflict. And the fact is this is a lesson in life.
Your own goals may conflict with your friends, partner's or your parents, or even your bosses...the fact is your need to figure out these three things;

- How important is their goal to you
- Is their room for compromise
- How important is your goal to you

Tip of the day: We live in a world filled with people and every person has their own goals, not necessarily to help you with yours and not necessarily to break you of yours..