Goal 8: What’s Your Personal Theme Song?
Part of the 30 Goals Challenge Series
Congratulatons!
You just completed a week of goals. Can you believe how much you’ve accomplished in the New Year
so far?! For the next goal, I want us to keep ourselves motvated for the week ahead. In the past, the
best way I kept motvated was by feeling confdent in myself. Personally, I think January is one of the
toughest months. During this tme we refect on everything we did not accomplish the previous year,
then we make goals and by the end of the month we might beat ourselves up for not making any
progress towards these goals. I like to plan for this inevitable tme that I know I will feel depressed.
Many of us may be our own worse critcs.
When I was in my 20s, I learned a trick from watching one of my favorite television series, Ally McBeal.
In the show, Ally convinces her bestriend John, who ofen stuters and lacks confdence, to get a
personal theme song to sing to his refecton in the mirror. At frst, John thinks it’s a terrible idea. Then
he chooses the Barry White song, You’re The First, The Last, My Everything. In this video clip he’s
singing the song and his co-workers join him.
Accomplishing This Goal
Over the years, I have had several theme songs for diferent occasions. I had one song to motvate me
to exercise, another to start the day, and those to deal with disappointment. Usually, I would sing
these on the way to work in my car, hum them, or sing them to myself in my head. I had my theme
song saved as my ring tone. Over the years, I stopped doing this. However, this year my long-term goal
is to maintain this practce.
To accomplish today’s task, think about what songs make you feel confdent in various areas of your
life. You can create lists in your mp3 player, Ipod, or Iphone. A friend, @Annapires, introduced me to
Blip.fm, a music site where you can create music lists and post these selectons on Twiter, Facebook,
or Live Journal. This is a great site to post your personal theme songs and share them with your
friends.
Your Students
This task can also be implemented as an actvity with your students. Ask your students what personal
theme song they would choose and why. They can create their own music videos using Animoto,
Windows Movie Maker, Glogster, or other tools. Read this post and this post for more ideas of web 2.0
tools your students can use for this actvity. Your students can also take this quiz, which will tell them
their personal theme song afer they answer the questons. They can research the song lyrics and
decide if they agree/disagree and why. The students can also make their own quizzes with more
modern choices for their peers to take.
More Resources
• Student music videos at the Zarco English Blog
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