Balance. Balance is the key word for the upcoming challenges I must overcome during these final two weeks. It’s pretty challenging, the things I have on my plate -- glucose tolerance report (physiology; 7 pages), study for physiology final (physiology; 8 lectures), Synthesis essay (English, 3 pages), Essay 3 (5 pages). And mixed in with all my school work, I also have personal things; the most bothersome at the moment, I have to take care of four dogs that do not play well together and clean their mess. Two big dogs (my brothers) and two small dogs (my other brother’s and his girlfriend’s). Everything seems to be happening at the worse possible time, but I manage to keep it all together with proper management of stress. I believe that stress is all in the mind (or most of it), and these final two weeks is a test of how really strong my head is. My secret to balancing everything out is to plan everything and don’t let anything stress you out. For example, when you plan things and things do not go as planned, it’s best just to accept it as it is and let it go -- since we have no control over most of the things that affects us -- don’t add more stress to your already stressed out situation. In other words, don’t be stressed out that you’re stressed. Duh.
Sometimes, I’d like to pretend I have the killer instinct of my favorite athlete, Kobe Bryant, or the calm and controlled manner of Phil Jackson (Laker’s hall-of-fame coach) . At times that requires your 100% focus, you just need to think of yourself as the greatest human being that ever walked on this planet (Kobe), or the Zen Master (Phil Jackson). Don’t let anything move you, just let it go any distortions and focus at the task at hand. Confidence and Inner peace.
My difficulties: I haven’t read the books I have to read for the prompts (BIG disadvantage), and I haven’t started on any of the essays due to personal responsibilities. I can either: Flip-out and panic and work with an anxious mood, or work calmly. The latter of course is the best state to study (for me at least). A few semesters ago I used to drink excessive amounts of caffeine and pull off all-nighters; sometimes I would stay up for two days trying to get everything done. But I realized that I don’t function that well without any sleep. What works for me is to take breaks, eat, and sleep. The obvious things, everyone knows this, but sometimes people forget to do these things because they’re so panicked. I was sort of like Boxer from Animal Farm, I overworked out of sheer will, and amazing work-ethic -- but at the end, hard work doesn’t amount to anything if you don’t work smartly
Good luck to everyone; and work hard, efficiently, and most importantly, work smart! Manage your time and don’t indulge too much on stress. I hope I helped..
Now back to writing my Essays....lol
My difficulties: I haven’t read the books I have to read for the prompts (BIG disadvantage), and I haven’t started on any of the essays due to personal responsibilities. I can either: Flip-out and panic and work with an anxious mood, or work calmly. The latter of course is the best state to study (for me at least). A few semesters ago I used to drink excessive amounts of caffeine and pull off all-nighters; sometimes I would stay up for two days trying to get everything done. But I realized that I don’t function that well without any sleep. What works for me is to take breaks, eat, and sleep. The obvious things, everyone knows this, but sometimes people forget to do these things because they’re so panicked. I was sort of like Boxer from Animal Farm, I overworked out of sheer will, and amazing work-ethic -- but at the end, hard work doesn’t amount to anything if you don’t work smartly
Good luck to everyone; and work hard, efficiently, and most importantly, work smart! Manage your time and don’t indulge too much on stress. I hope I helped..
Now back to writing my Essays....lol
I love your blog. Knowing you personally, I admire how you accept so much favors even if you have tons of work to do and not complain about it. I admire how you always stay positive. I admire your hard working abilities. But sometimes I worry that people don not appreciate and see what you do for them. If you wish to have time on your own, you are constantly bothered; sadly even by me. But I also realized that a reason why you accept all these excess errands when loads of other work has been already assigned to you, is that you know you can handle it. I would get mad at you because it would bothered me that you don’t say no. But then you always say “everything will be okay,” which is true because everything did turn out okay. Just like earlier tonight, I learned from you that we should not dwell on the negativity because as a result we suffer from the anxieties. I know that your time crunch is worst than mine, but you barely see me worry about you now because I know that you can do it. There are times when you whine about it, but I just ignore your whining because you always end up getting A’s in the end anyway. =] GG NUB GL!
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