I’ve learned a lot about procrastination today. I’ve been putting off two very simple but very important tasks for a month and a half now. I took care of both of them a few minutes ago, and I already feel a lot less stressed. The tasks were simply sending an email to the person who hired me at work and sending an email to an admissions officer at a college I applied to. I didn’t put them off because I was afraid of the responses or because I didn’t know what to say — it was pure stupidity on my end. I’ve been horribly stressed since I knew that I had to do it, and I’ve still been postponing it for so long. I’m happy that I finally took care of it, and I do have to say that I’ve been a lot more on top of work that I’ve had to get done this school term than I have been in years. It feels amazing knowing that I’m not behind on everything like I usually am, since I unfortunately do have a very legitimate reason for always being behind on work. Despite that reason, I’m always held to the same standards (even higher) than the people around me, which certainly causes me a lot of agony at times but forces me to persevere rather than give in to the issues holding me back. I wouldn’t say that all of the people holding me to those standards are exactly supportive of me, but they certainly give me a reason to keep working in the worst of times, which is all I really need right now. I’m not going to go into what that issue is since it’s pretty personal, but I felt like sharing that little but about perseverance since I’m honestly really happy with how I’ve been handling school work and other not-so-fun work lately. Honestly, I know that I’m still going to procrastinate plenty of chores and work, but it’s certainly a nice lesson that I’ve learned. It’s definitely hypocritical coming from a huge procrastinator, but my honest suggestion to everyone would be to not procrastinate and push everything off until you’re literally burnt out from worrying about. It’s an awful, awful habit, and I really hate seeing other people make the same mistakes with it as I do.
I don’t really know what the point of this post was, but I guess I felt like sharing the little lesson I learned. Today hasn’t been the best day, but the productivity (I also cleaned and sorta organized my room) has made it that little bit better.
I’ve been telling myself that I’ll get back into martial arts and start eating healthier for the New Year so that I’ll be healthier, then I got a ton of candy for Christmas. So much for that idea, haha.
I’m sick yet again... three times in one month is impressive, especially since the last one lasted two weeks. I’m so over being sick. I’m pretty sure I could easily pinpoint the three main reasons why, but unfortunately they’re not preventable at the moment. It’s annoying that I’m sick so much since my dad and his girlfriend are literally the cleanest people I’ve ever met, so it’s not like there are germs in the house that I could be getting.
On another note, speaking of their cleanliness, it looks like tomorrow I’m helping my dad clean out the cupboards and the fridge. We’re kind of doing a full clean of everything we don’t need, so that’ll be fun. I actually don’t mind it, honestly.
