Personal Narrative: What I Learned Before Basketball

Currently, my endurance has improved since Late September, however it has not improved to the point that I wanted it to be before basketball. I have somewhat followed my goal of trying to run at the track, but I have been unable to run or workout 4-6 times a week. From where I was at on September 30th I have improved and compared to this time last year I am in much better shape than I was at the start of basketball season last year.
One reason why I may have not reach this goal was setting the bar slightly too high. Instead aiming for quantity I should’ve leaned more towards quality. Having to balance time between schoolwork and exercising also brought a bit of a challenge as my workload has increased since the first month of school. My goal for the future will be to be able to go through a whole basketball practice or scrimmage without having to go out because of tiredness. In order to achieve this
I will continue exercising at the same rate but make the workouts more energy focused than just flat out running on a flat surface.

Another area of wellness in which I set goals for was trying to improve the time it takes for me to do homework.
I did poorly at improving this as I’ve noticed little to no change in the pace at which I do homework. One of the possible reasons this may have failed is my plan wasn’t specific enough. All I really said was that I was going to limit distracts but didn’t go into much detail. Although this is slightly effective I should be doing other things besides just removing things that will get me off task. A possible reason why I was unable to achieve this goal could’ve been lack of effort. For me, using electronics and having fun during the course of homework has become a bad habit and I didn’t try to hard to break that habit. One area where I have improved is in time it takes me to take a test. In the past I would usually be the very last one done with a test but now For the future my goal will be to complete all everyday homework, not large assignments in under 2 hours. In order to do this I will set a timer along continuing doing my best at limiting
distractions.

The final area of wellness I previously tried to improve was giving myself more time do do things I enjoy. This went hand in hand with not taking too long on work because on the days where I was unable to stay focused on work I didn’t have any time left over for me to have fun. This however will improve if I am able to achieve my previous goal of not taking too [much time in doing work. For the next few months, this will be both easy and hard to achieve. With basketball starting I will both get to do one thing I enjoy but it will take a majority of my free time at home away. Playing and practicing basketball also takes up a lot of time that would’ve been used for working which means practically all my time at home will be used for homework. My goal for the future will be to enjoy basketball as much as I can and not get overly stressed by the aspects of it.