Time Management?

Your first lesson in time management from Sam and I. 

The most important lesson we learn in college is a toss-up between two things. One would be how to eat through the week with only twenty dollars to your name. The other – equally important – is how to manage your time.

“Don’t wait until the night before to do this project” we’ve all heard this before and have responded with “Challenge Accepted”. Then you turn into Barney Stinson and all of a sudden it’s 3 a.m and you’ve drank a whole pot of coffee and magically there is a semi coherent project sitting in front of you. Every time we promise not to do this to ourselves again and every time we do the exact same thing.

Then we have the students that make lists and have each step of the project planned out in their planner; the Ted Mosby's. Hey, more power to you. I could schedule out when I'm going to post blogs and what they're gonna be about for an entire month... but nothing will get posted for at least two months. This is one hundred percent because I am a last minute crammer. 

So, how is this learning time management? In the “real world” no one cares how you get your work done, it just has to get done. In college we learn how we work most effectively. Some of us do our best work when we have it all planned out and can start a week in advance, while others do better under the stress of having only a few hours to finish their work.

Once you figure out what works best, stick with it. If you are a last minute crammer, don’t be ashamed of it, embrace it! Likewise, if your strong suit is micromanaging and planning things out, buy a good planner and go for it! The world needs a good balance of Barney Stinson’s and Ted Mosby’s.

Top Ten Procrastination Tasks of the Day

Today I could not sit down and focus on writing a decent blog post. I did just about everything I possibly could to not write. So I decided instead of forcing myself to write, I'd just give you a list of the top ten things I so wisely spent my time doing today (with visuals, of course).

1.)  I started with some good ol' time killing with timehop. All this really made me want to do is watch Freaky Friday...

2.) Freaky Friday quickly lost my attention so I switched over to "Duck Dynasty". I watched half of a season today... but I was watching while completing procrastination tasks three through eight. 

3.) While I was watching "Duck Dynasty" I of course had to check BuzzFeed. 

4.) Then of course, Pinterest. This pin made me want cupcakes... 

5.) So I made a latte instead (oh and, Roll Tide). Cupcakes take waaay too long to bake. 

6.) I did some laundry. As happy as I would have been to leave the laundry on the couch, my dogs decided my clothes would be better if they smelled more dog-like. Hence why I had to put them away immediately.

7.) I then decided my desk needed some serious organizing. Logically, the pile of rubber bands became a rubber band ball. 

8.) Eventually I did indeed reorganize my entire "office" area. Not too shabby for a day of procrastination. 

9.) Once I ruled out napping (terrible decision, by the way) my brother asked me to put numbers on our spiffy new mailbox. Look at how perfectly straight those letters are. Go ahead, admire it. I did. 

10.) All that hard work procrastinating made me hungry. Naturally I had to make dinner. Mmmm Shepherd's Pie :)

There you have it folks! Ten things I did today instead of write a blog post. 'Tis the season for procrastination, the semester starts soon. I'm just preparing myself for the imminent last minute, up all night, coffee binge, homework sessions this coming semester will bring. 

My favorite way to procrastinate is to drink coffee and watch Netflix, what's yours?