The Question Was Answered!
In life it is important to set goals, objectives and targets
in our working and personal lives. Having
a goal helps you to focus and, hopefully, achieve what you set out to do. They can be set for a myriad of reasons
ranging from really small objectives to very large ones. Recently, I achieved one of my goals after
trying for more than two years.
What was this achievement, I hear you all say. Well, continue reading and I will elaborate
dear reader.
There is a weekly question and answer show on television
called, funnily enough, ‘Questions and Answers’ or better known as ‘Q & A’
or as I like to call it Qanda. The show
consists of a panel of guests, generally politicians and the like, who answer
questions posed to them by the live audience.
The panel then put across their point of view on the relevant subject.
As the show goes out live across Australia, viewers are able
to post some tweets, with a select few being aired visually across the bottom
of the screen. When the show first started showing viewers tweets. I thought that it would be great if I could
get one of mine aired on the show. Now
there are a few theories that I have put to practice in my quest to find
success. Since I set out to achieve this
goal, I have tried funny tweets, controversial tweets, subject-related tweets
and out of the ordinary tweets. Alas, all
to no avail.
Over the course of time, a Qanda tweet group was
formed. Every Monday night we all get
together, via Twitter of course, to watch the show and try to get our tweets on
air. Normally, one or two of our group
have a successful night and manage to get a tweet onto the show. However, up until recently, my tweets were
the proverbial bridesmaid and not the bride – if you get my meaning!
Then glory finally came my way!
During the Qanda broadcast on the 15th October, a
tweet by yours truly appeared on the show.
Now, I have to admit that I had nearly given up hope of this ever happening. However, when it did, it provided me with a
sense of fulfillment. Seeing my tweet on
television was quite surreal really. I
read the tweet and thought - that sounds familiar! Then after a nano-second I realised
it was mine!
So finally, I had achieved my goal! Actually it was a great
night all round as our Qanda group all got tweets aired on the show! So myself,
Em, Katie, Vanessa and Jennifer were all successful twitterers.
Now I have set myself another goal, I want to get another tweet
aired sometime soon. Even if I don’t
succeed, I can still try, try and try again!
And here is the broadcasted tweet:
“Gillard made a stand
that will define her leadership” - which was about the Australian Prime
Minister and her stand against misogyny in politics.
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