It’s so easy to let the stresses of daily life get to you. If you’re like me, from the moment you wake up to the moment you finally manage to lay down and get some rest, you’re bombarded with deadlines, work, family obligations, and your friends pestering you to hang out! At moments, it may seem impossible to get anything done. You definitely have no intention of making new plans when you can’t even fulfill your current ones!
Find a hobby! It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as it’s something you enjoy and it’s completely unrelated to work or school. It’s so easy to become robotic in fulfilling obligations every day and lose sight of self-actualization. If you don’t find something to be passionate about, you’re in very real danger of looking back on your life one day and realizing you spent so much of your time performing tasks assigned by other people that you lost sight of the very things that made you unique!
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Take the time to become better organized. This is an area I’ve struggled with my entire academic career. Keep an agenda, either online or in a planner, old-school style. Don’t make the mistake I did: don’t trust yourself to remember a due date, write it down to be absolutely certain it’s met. Don’t reserve scheduling just for school or work: use it for your social time as well. This way you can make absolutely sure none of the parts of your life spill over into the other and dominate too much of your time. If you keep a well-maintained, efficient schedule, you may even find that you suddenly have extra time to do the things you love!
Most importantly, be confident in yourself and your judgment. Know that you have already come so far and that this is just the beginning. Putting in the work and applying some discipline now will reap countless rewards in the future. You are the only person who is really capable of molding your destiny. Don’t let the opinions of others determine your future. You’ll be surprised how quickly things change for the better once you let go of the baggage that comes from caring what other people think about your life. Pursue the career of YOUR dreams, not someone else’s. Welcome advice from others, but always do your own research and come to your own conclusions. No one can live your life but YOU!
