Both Ahead and Behind Schedule

Published June 3rd, 2008

Time for a little self-improvement check-up. The patient is not exactly in the best health.  Since laying out my plan for the future in February, events have conspired to slowly but surely drag me down from that self esteem peak. I am now in a trough, at best. Referring back, my Plan was to get a MySQL certification. I have lagged, procrastinated, studied in bursts and lulls. Technically, I had planned to take the Associate exam by June 1. I have not done that. However, I also decided (back in March) that the Associate exam was largely redundant, and to just go for the Developer Exam. Target date for that was Sep 1, but I really have no excuse for not moving that date up to June 1. No excuse but laziness, lethargy and general malaise, that is. Since my self-motivation has failed me miserably of late, I went ahead and scheduled the first Developer exam for June 13th - just 10 days away. So there’s my deadline for the first test. I have to now study so that I don’t lose money/time/face and pass the damn thing. I think I can do it. I really, really hope I can. Is it was for me, of all people, to be scheduling it for Friday the 13th? Most likely not. But them’s the breaks.

So, there’s my plan - in a couple weeks I’ll either maybe have a reason to feel a little better, or a reason to feel a lot worse. Guess I’d better start studying (again)…

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