If my bad sense of direction remained purely in the spatial sense, in that my mind failed to produce the map others could, it would be an embarrassing flaw of mine's when it came up, but still manageable. However, I've found that during high school, as classes become more difficult and talks of my future more and more common, my lack of direction in the metaphorical sense has become apparent as well. What do I want to have for a job? What college do I want to go to? Am I going to stay eternally single, like Artemis without any of the godly benefits? Overthinking is my favorite hobby when I'm stressed, and these days, I've been stuck in my head pondering all these matters quite a bit. I don't think I'm the only one wondering where I'm headed in life, but it's both surprising and depressing for me to realize that even with my supposed planning skills, I'm nowhere near prepared as I'd thought I'd be at this point.
Last Friday, I decided I'd take some serious action to get back on track after two quizzes left me feeling burnt out and miserable. So I went down by Staples, and got a fancy daily planner to write down my schedule for every day onward, hour by hour. My thinking was that if that planner, left open with all its neatly written in details glared up at me, I'd be able to stop myself from wasting time on frivolous activities, and actually get some AP class work done in the afternoon instead of in the late hours of the night. I'd fill in these details on the weekend, and by today, I'd be stealing glances at it and doing what I need to do. This plan for my daily planner did not pan out as I expected. Instead, I procrastinated on filling in the details, and as such, the pages are still pure white and lovely as ever. In order to prevent me from procrastinating with my anti-procrastination measure even more, this entire blog post serves as a reminder for tomorrow's me to get on with filling it out. Yes, tomorrow's me, you might have homework, track & field practice, and maybe a quiz to study for, but that still doesn't excuse delaying the planner. Regardless, at least I've started on something to fix my lack of direction and laziness. For my readers, have any of you figured out a solution, or have any tips, on mitigating procrastination and getting things back under control?
I feel for you! Sometimes I tend to get so distracted by other things that I almost forget I had something to do that day. I think the planner would be a great idea. In order to remember writing in it, I think you should try reminding yourself through perhaps setting a daily alarm on your phone during Eagle Block to make sure you wrote everything down or maybe (instead of the old-fashioned tying string to your finger to remember something) wear a bracelet or ring every day so that you remember to write when you glance at it during class. I hope this helped, and even if not, I wish you the best of luck!
ReplyDeleteJust as you I find myself getting distracted so Easily by a multitude of other things. Planners are a life saver for me and a great invention might I add. They are fantastic for keeping track of things and events. With that said I set any alarm at the end of the day to remind myself to write down important notes and dates so I remember. It has helped me become more organized and helped me tremendously with remembering things.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunatly I am a huge procrastinator also. Its usually because I get distracted listening to music, watching a video and doing homework, so I can't focus and one hour of work turns into 3 hours of work. As of yet I don't have an answer for this.
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