- Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
During my time at Robogals, towards the end of every year, I would lose focus.
Why? All my major projects for the year would have been wound up. My goals were usually annual goals, so by December, I'd either have got there, or I wouldn't have. And there usually wasn't much more I could do to change that by then. So I'd be unmotivated and slow down.
But then I realised that I just needed new goals and plans for the upcoming year to motivate me and make me burst with excitement. So I would create new goals that were challenging for me, things that were a step above things that I'd done before, so that I could learn many new skills. This would make me super motivated and I would leap into action again.
In my final year of Robogals, I deliberately didn't sit down and do this, because I didn't want to get distracted creating new programmes. Instead, I focused all my goals on succession, because I realised that the best thing I could do for Robogals in my last year was to set it up for the future so that many more people could create their own challenges and learn new skills from the organisation.