So last week kind of kicked my trash. I had approached the week thinking this is
going to be a piece of cake. Normally in
my Quantitative methods class I have 2 major assignments due, however last week
there was only one seemingly minor assignment (until I read the
instructions). Also in my Managerial
Communications class we had just a paper and a power point presentation to put
together, I actually kind of enjoy writing papers; those assignments are easy
for me. So I thought well I have Monday
off work I’ll be able to get all my work done and be free and light the rest of
the week.
Funny how things never seem to work out the way you think
they will. Monday came and I decided to
sleep in a little bit, and I woke up just in time to join my sister in law at a
body pump class. After that I ran a few
errands and by the time I got home, it was lunchtime. As many of you know I have missionaries for
my church living with me, and Monday is their P-Day (their “day off”) and this
particular p-day was one of the missionaries last days off as a
missionary. So we decided to all go out
to lunch as a sort of farewell. However
due to that sidetrack, I wasn’t home until around 3 and when I sat down to work
on my assignment I ended up taking a nap, when I woke up it was time to go to
my parents for a family get together/bonfire.
So my completely free day to get all my assignments done was gone just
like that.
That’s ok, I’m going on week 3 of no over time required in
my job, and so I get off work at 2:30, plenty of time to work on my assignments
during the week. However one thing
always led to another and I found myself Friday night starting to freak out a
little because I didn’t have the paper written, or any of the assignments
done. I had to miss out on a friend’s
bridal shower because of my magnificent ability to procrastinate. Luckily I did get my quantitative methods
assignment completed Friday night, and then after running lots of errands on
Saturday I found myself working until about 11:30pm to get my paper and power
point completed. I don’t have high hopes
for my grades in relation to these assignments, but I’m glad I got them
done.
What’s interesting is I noticed (at the end of the week) why
I had such a hard time focusing and getting things done… you ready for it? I “forgot” to delete my social media apps at
the beginning of the week. I have been
doing this no social media experiment during the week for a couple of weeks,
and I decided that I could probably use it in moderation. However I learned that isn’t the case, I have
a social media addiction. Now you may
notice me still posting during the week, but that’s not from my phone, my phone
is social media app free during the week.
Sometimes I’ll get on Facebook at the end of the day when all my work is
done, but only from my computer. And if
that starts to become too distracting I will stop doing even that.
But another thing I noticed this last week was I was blessed
in having my paper and presentation come together the way it did. I made a promise to myself and God that I
will not do homework on Sundays. My mom
always told us about how she did that when she went back to school and it
always blessed her life. When I first
started college I didn’t stick to that 100% but always tried to not do work on
Sunday. However after my mission I made
a goal to get all As for the rest of my college career, to do this I made a
promise to never do work on Sundays, that often meant waking up at 4 or 5 in
the morning to finish up work left over, but I’ll tell you this… I hit my goal
of all As.
As I’m now starting my grad school career, I’d love to get
all As, but I’m not sure that will happen, however I am keeping my commitment
to not do any home work on Sundays, which meant I had to work super fast to get
everything done by the end of Saturday night.
As hard and stressful as it was I’m incredibly proud of myself (is that
ok to say) that I was able to stick to my commitment.
This week is going a lot smoother if you are wondering, I
have in fact finished all my assignments for the week and even though I have a
few random things I have to do throughout the week to be “present” in my online
classes I’m basically free for the rest of this week and it’s an amazing
feeling!! I’m even making plans to start working on next week’s assignments
this week so I can continue being stress free.
It is hard to make a commitment to not do work on Sundays;
it takes a lot of faith. However I can
promise form experience that God keeps all His promises, if we keep ours. One of my take aways from this last general conference was we need to make a better effort to keep the Sabbath day holy. What are ways you are keeping the Sabbath day holy?
I can't leave Prim out, she won't let me!
