Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

Like I said in my last post I have been applying the small goal system to my own life and have gotten wonderful results. Starting the very first week of this quarter I decided that I was going to try out this system. Knowing what I wanted the end result to be, to quit smoking, it seemed like I was just making another long term goal. So I decided scratch quitting smoking I’m going to make one goal at a time based on the last small goal completed. So I set out to make my first goal. I knew that if I really wanted to end solution to be me not smoking I had to tackle every part of this addiction. The oral fixation, daily routine, smoker’s logic and so on…. but I had to start somewhere. I still had a full pack of cigarettes and a few left in my cigarette case and I wasn’t about to throw them away or give them away. So I decided my first goal would be to smoke the rest of my cigarettes. Once I completed that goal I had to make the second based on the first one. So the first goal left me cigarette-less so what would I normally do when I am out of cigarettes? Buy more!!! But not this time! With the end result in mind my next goal would be to not buy cigarettes and to make that really easy for myself. I only used to buy cigarettes on my way to or from school from my house and always at the same gas station. So I started driving a different way home and made a rule for myself that I couldn’t buy cigarettes anywhere else but there but I wasn’t allowed to drive past that store on the way home. There for leaving me unable to buy cigarettes. So after I accomplished those small goals I was smoking significantly less because I was only buying individual cigarettes from friends for quarters or bumming them from my friends. After about a week of that I started to feel bad for bumming all the time so I set my next goal of not bumming cigarettes. This only left me able to share others cigarettes with them, this left me smoking barely at all. Then I set my hardest small goal only smoke once every three days or less!!! Then after the first three days I forgot about smoking and my goal changed into being once a week and now, after ten long weeks I make little to no exceptions to smoke and I have not smoked at all in over a week. Small goals with a larger goal in mind. I set a lot more goal along the way those were just the major small goals that aided me in quitting smoking.

Through this whole process of quitting smoking I didn’t allow myself to look at any of the quitting smoking information until I actually did it because I wanted it to feel that much better and be that much prouder of myself for doing it for my own reasons. As well as the fact that I wanted to feel the difference in my health because I felt it not because I had read something that put ideas in my mind how I was supposed to be feeling.

So here is the information I have been waiting all quarter to read myself!!! Courtesy of this wonderful website listed below:

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/a_benefits_time_table.html

My logic with sharing how this process helped me is that all quarter I have been thinking to myself that if this works for me( solving the problem one step at a time from the sources not just putting Band-Aids over problems) then how could others, specifically homeless members of society, use this system to help themselves. How can I mold what I have applied to my life to fit it to other problems as well as others?  How can I help people learn to do this effectively so that they are better to help themselves into more desirable situations? I would choose to create more resources that treat how and why people are becoming homeless as well as spread awareness. This could help reduce the amount of people who are becoming homeless so that the limited resourced that there are able to make a bigger impact.

This quarter what I have found to be true it that being Homelessness and not having a traditional domestic space means  you don’t fit into the “normal” standard of living we think of in the united states. This in turn leads to not being able to get the things you need and going without.  What I want to work towards is learning how to make better resources more available to people who don’t fit the standard, to help the people who slip through the crack for whatever reason.

In my journey to gain perspective I found myself getting lost in all of the information that I was submerging myself in. Everything about the topic of homelessness is pretty overwhelming and before this project I didn’t realize how close to home it would hit and how emotionally invested in it I would become. When things fell through volunteering at the place I originally wanted to volunteer at I realized that time was going by quickly. So to keep up with my weekly volunteer hour requirement I began to pick up garbage along the train tracks near my home. I often see homeless people and travelers walking along the tracks because it is near downtown and there are some trees for shelter that some people seek refuge in at night. So in short there is a pretty good accumulation of trash. So a few during the week I would go and collect trash for about 2 hours and then sit in this nice spot I found that overlooks a part of the train tracks I cleaned up and meditate and write in my reflection journal for the quarter.

My look out spot where I would sit and reflect on my project.

This experience was one of the most helpful components of my project. It gave me time to really think about what I was doing, why I was doing it, and who I was doing it for. When I started picking up trash I was just picking up trash, and now when I just finished my 26th hour of Operation Clean Up the Tracks I was doing so much more than just cleaning. I found it really hard to be able to put it into words. The most I can say is that when I cleaned up that ground I thought, I thought about everything I was doing. I thought not as a whole but I paid attention to every piece of my life. I thought of things as individual items that belonged to a whole instead of just the big picture. Blocks, pieces of a whole, steps to making something better, small things add up, small goals. I thought about how every little thing I was doing in that moment that seemed insignificant added up overtime. That the first two hours of trash clean up didn’t really make a difference but 26 hours did. Now it looks different because of every little piece I picked up. Every small thing matters.

It helped me come to the idea that if we as people can remedy, clean up, fix, complete small things one at a time little by little, it will add up and over time you will have something worth so much more than all of those little accomplishments. Over the past ten weeks when these ideas have been coming to me I wasn’t sure what to do about it. So to test it out, I decided to apply these things to my own life; low and behold it worked. If I made small goals, and I mean very small trivial sounding goals the more of them I would complete because they were easy. The more I completed the better I felt about it and the more it motivated me to do them, getting me out of my unproductive attitude. Every day I worked at it, it got easier and easier to complete the goals that I would set for myself daily.

When I first decided that I was going to pick up trash I was not excited about it, but by the end I really came to enjoy my trash pick-up time and I think I am going to continue to keep it up as much as I can, because the reflection aspect of it is something that has added something really needed and special in my life.

Picking up trash is one thing I could do to add beauty in a sometimes overwhelmingly not beautiful situation.

In my journey to gain perspective I found myself getting lost in all of the information that I was submerging myself in. Everything about the topic of homelessness is pretty overwhelming and before this project I didn’t realize how close to home it would hit and how emotionally invested in it I would become. When things fell through volunteering at the place I originally wanted to volunteer at I realized that time was going by quickly. So to keep up with my weekly volunteer hour requirement I began to pick up garbage along the train tracks near my home. I often see homeless people and travelers walking along the tracks because it is near downtown and there are some trees for shelter that some people seek refuge in at night. So in short there is a pretty good accumulation of trash. So a few during the week I would go and collect trash for about 2 hours and then sit in this nice spot I found that overlooks a part of the train tracks I cleaned up and meditate and write in my reflection journal for the quarter.

My look out spot where I would sit and reflect on my project.

This experience was one of the most helpful components of my project. It gave me time to really think about what I was doing, why I was doing it, and who I was doing it for. When I started picking up trash I was just picking up trash, and now when I just finished my 26th hour of Operation Clean Up the Tracks I was doing so much more than just cleaning. I found it really hard to be able to put it into words. The most I can say is that when I cleaned up that ground I thought, I thought about everything I was doing. I thought not as a whole but I paid attention to every piece of my life. I thought of things as individual items that belonged to a whole instead of just the big picture. Blocks, pieces of a whole, steps to making something better, small things add up, small goals. I thought about how every little thing I was doing in that moment that seemed insignificant added up overtime. That the first two hours of trash clean up didn’t really make a difference but 26 hours did. Now it looks different because of every little piece I picked up. Every small thing matters.

It helped me come to the idea that if we as people can remedy, clean up, fix, complete small things one at a time little by little, it will add up and over time you will have something worth so much more than all of those little accomplishments. Over the past ten weeks when these ideas have been coming to me I wasn’t sure what to do about it. So to test it out, I decided to apply these things to my own life; low and behold it worked. If I made small goals, and I mean very small trivial sounding goals the more of them I would complete because they were easy. The more I completed the better I felt about it and the more it motivated me to do them, getting me out of my unproductive attitude. Every day I worked at it, it got easier and easier to complete the goals that I would set for myself daily.

When I first decided that I was going to pick up trash I was not excited about it, but by the end I really came to enjoy my trash pick-up time and I think I am going to continue to keep it up as much as I can, because the reflection aspect of it is something that has added something really needed and special in my life.

Picking up trash is one thing I could do to add beauty in a sometimes overwhelmingly not beautiful situation.