John
It’s true. I’ve failed to accomplish one of my goals to become a full stack web developer. It kind of goes against my personal belief that if you do something, you better finish it – or don’t do it at all. I had envisioned becoming one to create websites for small businesses as another income stream. I originally believed that I’d be able to run through the course, learn what I needed, and be set to do what I wanted. That was unfortunately not the case.
The courses I took were from Udacity. It’s no doubt that it is a great program – they even have a Nanodegree for this. However, in working through nearly 2/3 of all the courses, I found myself unmotivated and disinterested. Even though I am intrigued how the web works, I figured that actually doing web development wasn’t what I truly wanted to do. On top of that, the drive I originally had was exhausted by my altering vision of life as other opportunities unfolded.
While I consider this a fail, I don’t look down on the situation in any way or think of it as a waste. I am actually grateful that I was able to came this far and be able to learn all that I did. I view this as a growth in my IT career; even though I did not complete my overall goal.
I do believe I could have “push-through”, but I don’t want to spend time on this when I could be utilizing it for other opportunities I want to seek. That’s kind of the beauty I find when I’m all-in for trying something out and it doesn’t pan out.
I suppose that is the takeaway from this. It is the fact that you may fail to complete goals, but it isn’t considered a loss; unless you believe it is. This is a win for me; just as long as I don’t make failing goals a habit.
Now on to the next.