Everyone’s heard the expression, “A job worth doing, is worth
doing well.” Here at ASLdeafined, we also believe that “Your
dedication to completing that job is your guarantee that you
will achieve tremendous results.” When committing yourself to a
task, make that commitment using realistic goals. Many people
will declare their intent to lose 10 pounds a week for the next
ten weeks, but after losing just 3 pounds the first month, they
give up in failure. Their expectations were too lofty, too high-
in-the-clouds, and just plain too unrealistic. When learning
American Sign Language (ASL), the same example can be used. Some
people are so excited and anxious to learn this new language
that they’ll set goals-of-completion so high that they find it
impossible to maintain that level of learning. Within a month or
two, their learning will grind to a halt. I have met so many
people who will come up to me and say, “I learned some sign
language once, years ago.” I’ll ask, “Great. What signs do you
know?” They’ll explain