Those who have been reading my blog heard about my stressful week last week. Intex was really hard, and when it was over I decided to take a break from school for the rest of the week. My class had been told that we wouldn't really have anything else that we would have to do after Intex, but I still had two oral presentations to give, one of which I hadn't prepared yet, as well three fairly large projects. I still have three finals left to do next week.
Because I had already mentally clocked out at the end of last week, it has been really hard for me to get anything done this week. It was even difficult to go to work. I just felt like I wanted to forget about school and work and relax all day. While I did have time to do that half of a day, I needed to mentally clock back in at the start of the week.
I have learned that I really struggle to mentally clock back in. Some of you may not have this problem, but I imagine that it is a fairly common thing. I need to be very careful about taking time off and make sure that I am not completely clocking out, just going on break. Life is difficult, and we can't just take breaks all day, every day. We need to work and get things done.
In the future, I am going to do a few things differently. Much of the homework I had to do this week I could have done sooner, but decided not to since it wasn't due for a while. I am going to try to avoid having this happen, and do my homework when I have time, while still leaving some time to relax and have fun. I will try to have everything I can done before my huge end of semester projects so that I can actually relax after them, and will force myself to clock back in after taking some time off from homework.
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