Time Management Stategies

Yay! Final blog of the week! What an exciting time to have completed my last first week of school work! This is relevant because this blog is about time management. This is something that I am sorely lacking, personally. Back in HS it felt so easy to take on the world. Looking back, I had school from 8am-4pm every day, took on a "zero" hour, AP classes, etc. I would run a mile or two every day before school, meaning that I am awake at 6am. I went to wrestling practice for about 2 hours (depending on where we were at in the season) every single day, and on days that we didn't have duals, I would go to work until 10:30 as a server at IHOP. Then on weekends, if there wasn't a wrestling tournament, I was working doubles and putting in time at the gym. Even when we were not in wrestling season, I was still doing Freestyle wrestling, Competitive speech, and debate, and did musicals every year of HS. When the heck did I have time for homework? I do not know if I just had really good time management or what, boy it never seemed like that great of a workload until now. Like yeah, I knew I was busy all of the time, but I never really understood just how busy I was. Being this busy was both great and detrimental to my mental health. Because I never had a spare moment to stop and meditate or think, I never had time to process the emotional trauma that was going on in my life at the time. So now I am stuck at age 21 reliving all of the stress that I did not have time to process as a teenager. Because of this, I am paying the consequences. I run off of stress if I don't feel stressed, I do not feel productive. I have had to take on a lot of time management advice because of my ADHD; I only have two functions. I either do all of my work all at once or nothing at all. Having this class last semester certainly helped me form routines, and I am grateful for that. The article that had the most profound impact on me was Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives because it explored exactly how I felt about time management. Looking forward to the course, I hope that I can maintain my time management and ensure my academic success.

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