I haven’t even visited this blog since the end of last semester, and here I am two days away from officially being a senior in college! I should be excited, right? I am, don’t get me wrong, but I am feeling the pressure. I have 1 year left, and that means that its time for me to STOP procrastinating on certain things, like my weight loss for instance. I feel so ashamed that I haven’t reached my goal yet. I took a look back at old journals and I have accomplished every single goal that I have set myself toward, except for 1. Why am I letting this defeat me?

Then there is the whole what am I going to do after I graduate thing to worry about. Honestly, it snuck up on me. I literally have 1 year to set things in motion for myself. That includes making sure I get an internship, creating an OUTSTANDING portfolio, and determining what is going to set ME apart from the rest of the graphic design graduates of 2013. I am wondering how everything is going to play out for me. Where will I be August 2013? Still in Birmingham? Back in Munford? In Atlanta? Maybe NYC?? The possibilities are endless. I figure, its time I ultimately decide what exactly it is I want to do after I graduate. I have other goals that are centered around my career, but I am not sure when to set my sights on accomplishing them. For instance, I want to live in another state for at least 2 years? Should I pursue grad school, or look for a job out of state? There is so much to think about!

For the next two days I will spend time finishing two more quizzes for my mass communications class, and working on my portfolio website, jasminegoodendesign.com.

I know that everything will work out just as it should.

Just a little motivation for myself, and anyone who needs it! No matter what is going on, making your exercise time vital is important. That is something that I have to learn as well. We don’t skip hair appointments, or nail appointments, so we should schedule our workouts and make those times absolutely unavailable for anything else. I’m going to work on this as well, and of course report my progress.

Tonight’s workout included Turbo Fire HIIT 15, and Sculpt 30!! Sculpt 30 is no joke! Resistance bands are tough, but I can tell they yield amazing results! I can’t wait until Sculpt 30 comes back around in my rotation!! Turbo Fire is an amazing workout!

(excuse my desk…functional chaos)

Happy Tuesday everyone! I posted two videos today featuring my weight loss journey. I decided to go with Losing to Win as the title for the series! I am going to be doing weekly updates, and vlogs about this whole weight loss process, because I will be successful! I mentioned in a previous post that I might do my journey videos on Vimeo, because its a little less out there, but I got to thinking…who cares?? This is what I feel like I need to do to be successful, and so it is what it is!

OAN: YouTube picks the absolute worst thumbnail pics for videos! It irks my nerves to the tenth power!!!!

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This semester has been crazy, just like previous ones. I am STILL taking remedial math. -_- It is such a shame!!! I’m realizing something about myself. If it doesn’t come easy to me, or if I don’t enjoy it, then I don’t want to be bothered with it. My whole mindset has been, “I’m a graphic designer, I don’t need this mess!” Which, is true! BUT, its required, so I can’t really do anything about it. Smh. I consider myself to be a “creative”, and as a creative I find it mind blowing that we are forced to learn math that has nothing to do with anything relevant, such as factoring, or plotting points, or freakin linear equations. It has nothing to do with what I’m trying to do, its a complete waste of time. I often wonder how a mathematician would feel if they were forced to learn to draw, or learn the adobe creative suite. I am not going to let this stress me out. I’m not going to lie, if I wasn’t set on losing weight, I would go and order a 10 piece wings with ranch fries, and eat half a tub of ice cream….but I refuse to do that. Instead, I’m going to go home and do Turbo Fire HIIT 15, 1 minute of mountain climbers, and attempt a POP Pilates workout. I’m not going to let it get me down, I still have 3 classes to worry about, including a pretty awesome project that I’m working on to submit to the local Addy Awards. I take the quote above to heart. I will never stay down, I will always bounce back.

I’ve posted her videos before, and here is another one. I’m going to attempt this one this week. Pilates is kind of hard to do at my current size, but I’m going to try!