There
are so many interesting activities in University for you to try. I’m the kind
of person that is always excited about any new stuff and I would to try very
single activity that I’m interested in. Although I plan ahead, my schedule is
totally full in the end. Most of the time, I’m just so tired or have no time
for study. Seniors have reminded me that I’m a university student first, then a
dancer, cheerleader etc. So choice making and time management become more important
to me now.
Here
comes the new semester. It’s a fresh start for me to something new – a more
organized lifestyle.
Firstly,
I have a new mindset that I’m a student and CCA is not my major. I used to
focus more on CCAs instead of studies ‘automatically’, because of bad
prioritization and peer pressure from all CCA groups. Now, I have made my mind
that I will be a student first, and not let anybody to influence me so easily.
Once I’ve decided what to do, for example what CCAs to join, I will not join anymore
just because my friends ask me to. I wrote ‘BE A STUDENT FIRST’ on the notice
board in my room to remind myself that spending more time on studies compared
to what I used to do. I asked few friends to be my study buddies too. They will
remind me to look out for my studies and go to study together. The first two
weeks were my test weeks for this new trail. So far I have been doing good. I
will keep it up and stay focused all the time.
Secondly,
to live in a more organized life, planning is very important, and it helps me
to manage the time well. I started plan for the following week in this
semester, and follow the plan as strictly as possible. I plan to have some
buffer time too, so I can pause, relax a bit and be prepared for the next
session. Of course there are changes when I actually execute the plan, I use
the buffer time to complete the task I missed. Postponing everything is not a
solution. My solution is finishing the weekly tasks on time, and changes the
plan accordingly. If I can do this for the whole semester, then the whole year,
I will be benefit from it a lot.
Besides
choice making and time management, keeping the promises to myself is equally
essential for me now. I promise to myself, so nobody else will know whether I
kept the promise. It’s hard but simple
to achieve the goal. What I’m doing now is making a promise checklist, reward
myself after achieving one goal. Hope that I can continue in this way and make
it a habit, so that in the future, keeping the promises to myself will not be
so difficult to do.
It’s
difficult yet important to start everything right from the beginning. I’m
changing in this new semester, and I will continue to di it till it becomes a
habit. Wish me all the best for a more organized semester ahead.
