Today I was freaking out about my project. I think it finally sunk in that there were only two weeks left in my project, so I was really starting to worry. My biggest anxieties were my budget and my business plan. Although the incident with the lost data from last week was extremely upsetting, I had seen an upward trend in growth that correlated with the trends in my daily water quality samples. ( I am hoping to talk about these trends soon. Perhaps next week in conclusion to my project.)
My worries concerning my budget and projections stem from not knowing how to write a budget or projections, which to me seems like a perfectly legitimate reason to be concerned. Luckily, I have a mom! And even more fortunate, I have a mom who knows exactly how to do both, so after a very long call with her, I was able to set up a time during the weekend (Saturday afternoon), when she could come help me with my budget.
Not only did she set up a time to help me with my budget, she also made some excellent suggestions on how to tackle my business plan. I had been feeling better about the structure and content of a business plan, but I was feeling really overwhelmed by all the information I had accumulated during my senior project. What do I include? What do I ignore? And where should it all go? I had no idea. What my mom suggested is that I take all my blog entries and print them out, so that I can organize my information on notecards. OR if I did not need the visual aid of having them on notecards, I could copy paste my blog posts from blogger to a word document. Although I have yet to act on her suggestions, I have been feeling much better about taking the next steps in writing and organizing my business plan.
So even though I did freak out today, I felt much better by the end, which was mostly die to my mom's help. I think that the main reason I was freaking out so much was that I was overwhelmed by all of my information and all the work I had to complete. However once I had a plan for how to tackle the information and work, I felt much better. I think it is important for me to learn from my mom on how to look for a solution rather than being worried and anxious.
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