Okay so I should be doing some homework or reading some chapters in my psych book but I needed to take a quick break to try and clear my mind a bit.
I’ve come to realize that I can at times bite off more than I can chew. I refuse to ask for help so I just plod along and struggle though until I reach the finish line. Right now I am working full time, taking 2 courses that each demand full time student attention, writing paid content for an online company, trying to squeeze in at least 3 day’s work of gym time to help control my sugar levels so that my diabetes won’t get out of hand, and spend quality time with my family. It’s a lot to take on in just 24 hours. Even though I am doing well in all these activities and I’m keeping up somehow, it can be overwhelming.
I know that one of my biggest flaws is with time management and procrastination. I mean I will wait until the last possible moment before I do anything and that just leads to a back up of work and that just least to me being stressed about it and then the task ends up taking way longer than necessary. Ughh. Why can’t I just do things in a reasonable time? I know why, because I’m sort of a perfectionist. I am never done with anything. I feel like it could always use ‘one more thing’. If I wait until the last possible moment then I won’t have time to go back and ‘fix’ things. I have to put my best into it at that time and that’s it. I tried this with a paper that I was doing for class. I started the paper like 2 weeks earlier than normal. I only needed it to be 2-3 pages. By the time I ended up turning it in like 3 weeks later it was 8 pages!, I ended up having to go back and trim and cut it but if I had done it a week early like usual it would have been the correct length and I still would have gotten a good grade.
Besides from being a perfectionist I’m also a procrastinator so my work is never done and it never starts!! I really need to work on the procrastination more than the perfectionism (if that’s even a word. Too lazy to look it up). I mean to try and make something perfect all the time is one thing but to wait until the last possible moment to get it done on top of that is bad business. I think that the procrastination comes in because I never feel like I’m ‘done’ and that I can start later and it’ll be okay because I’m good at this or that. Fooling myself into this false sense of security. I need to work on a few things but these are the biggest two right now. I graduate in December so I really need to get it together as I switch it into high gear.
Anyway that’s about it for me since my break is over, and now back to my psych reading.
Peace
Sincere
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