Throwback Thursday: Me And Time Management

            You know the one problem I am having with the whole quitting smoking thing is figuring out what to do with myself at times. It’s like I am just floating out in space in some ways. These are usually the times I would have a cigarette. So instead I’m stuck trying to figure out what to do with myself, and I will figure it out eventually it’s just going to take time to do so. Maybe revamping my schedule over break will help fix some of the problem as well. I hope so.

            But time management has always been a bit tricky for me. No one actually taught it to me after all. I was seemingly just expected to know it one day. And it never seemed to click all through school. I was either heavy into academics with a mild social life or heavy into social life with a mild academic life. Of course for me back then things were either black or white, there was no in between. I probably would have made a heck of a prosecutor at the rate I was going. But I digress. Over the years things have adopted more of a grey shade to me.

            Slowly but surely I have seen the greyer shades there are to life. And yet time management was still a struggle for me. I struggled with appointments putting other things I felt were more important first. I got all the priorities wrong. My social life took precedent even over going to school at all. I just started having fun and not caring about the world around me. That was all I cared about for a good six months. Then somehow I grounded myself again and ended up back at my mom’s house.

            That was no picnic either. We still had our issues and they weren’t going away. The main one was we couldn’t live together. It’s not that we don’t love each other we just get on each other’s nerves after a few days. But even back at my mom’s house I was still struggling with appointments. Though I did finally get a case manager at this point. But it was still a struggle making it to appointments.

            And would become more of a struggle as I got out on my own. Eventually I started getting the hang of appointments mostly through the use of cell phone calendars. But getting stuff done around the house was still a challenge.  I’ve gotten better with that stuff recently with help from a cleaning coach. My friend Morgana, and she is good and kicking me in the ass when I forget to do something.

            And she has been having to do it less and less since she started. As things just become natural. And I am hopeful that redoing the schedule will have the same effect on me as having Morgana come in and help me has. Something has to click eventually. I think part of the reason it is harder on me right now is because I don’t remember anyone teaching it to me as a young kid. I’m not sure why it wasn’t or if it was why I can’t remember it being taught to me.

            But I just have to move forward from this point. College isn’t going to get any easier at least that I can see. If anything it is only going to get harder. So I have to get it together now rather than later. Will that be easy? No, but it will be worth it in the long run. And speaking of things to do I have a million and one things to do to get ready for this break. As always feel free to leave questions and comments below. And if you want my posts to appear in your inbox enter your email address in the box below where it says to follow by email. As for me I am off and running to accomplish more. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading for the study. *