Post #1

“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change- this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” –Bruce Barton

Throughout my education, and more specifically my high school career, I have taken some challenging and some not so challenging courses which have shaped a few habits, being both good and bad. For this class, I plan on implementing the better chosen habits and strategies through trial and error in order to reflect the best possible outcome and success in Psychology 1001.

Before being able to succeed in this class, I must first recognize the bad habits which have accumulated over the years and be able to counter them with good and more helpful options. These bad habits include but are not limited to, perseverance in spite of sleep deprivation, priority organization, and as Ms. Osmundson predicted- procrastination. All three bad habits tie in very well together and result from my poor lack of desire, to put it plainly.

I go through the school day with such high hopes as to the success in my homework I will find when I get home, but when I pull into my driveway and unpack my backpack, all sense of desire and anticipation flees with procrastination filling its place. The perfect plans I had written down, exact to the minutes of how I will complete my homework and studying in the most reasonable allotment of time is thrown into the air. The plans no longer carry relevancy as the hours past slowly until it reaches nine o’ clock and I am forced to position myself on the couch with my delayed homework laid out in front of me in overwhelming shame. And after mulling my way through a few assignments the need for sleep hits me and the bed a mere twenty-three steps away (yes, I counted) beckon to me until I face plant into the pillow. Although I organize and plan it all to a T, the most important and relevant assignments do not get done first, because they typically are the most boring. Without doing these pertinent assignments the night before, I will have to wake up earlier than expected to finish. And so begins the vicious cycle again.

As the new school year begins, I have decided to attempt new strategies and outlooks on my day in hopes to better finish the homework and studying for upcoming tests that is necessary. Instead of planning my night in how to best compete my homework, I will simply make a checklist. Because it is so much more rewarding to cross off an assignment from a checklist rather than to watch the outlined time slowly dwindle with each uncompleted assignment. As for doing the most interesting over the most pertinent assignments, that is made all the easier due in part to my actual class assignments and how I do enjoy each of them equally, except for Psychology- being the utmost exciting of course. The classes I have chosen have few if any assignments due the day after, allowing me to feel more at ease about studying and reading in small increments each night in order to stay in a healthy time frame.

As the school year goes on, plans and expectations are expected to change but that is how life works. In order to gain progress out of hope, change is required no matter the amount of times required to adjust.