So I haven't posted anything for a while. My bad. I've been out of town a fair bit this month, and Law School work doesn't help. But today I found some thoughts in my head that I want to share with you.
Wednesday is the worst day of the week for me in terms of classes and workload. I have to do readings for class in the morning and I have class from 1:00pm to 6:00pm (pretty much), then I have to do recap work in the evenings after dinner. It doesn't sound too bad when I look at what I've just written but trust me, it's a long and stressful day, and usually I'm tired and not in the greatest mood by the end of it. When a Wednesday passes I feel a new sense of rejuvenation soar through my veins, and when Tuesday rolls around I start dreading the next day.
Today (a Wednesday) after class I felt lethargic and grumpy. I'd been cold called in International Law and dropped the ball on what was (in retrospect) a pretty easy question. It had been a cloudy and miserable day too. Things were not good at 6:05pm. I felt like I needed to let all these crappy vibes out of my system, so when I got home, I changed into my sports gear, put on my dusty trainers, grabbed my iPod and headed to the gym to do some exercise for the first time in a month and a half.
As I pedalled furiously on the fake bicycle and jogged on the conveyer belt of the treadmill, I felt better. So much better. I could feel the day's lameness sweating out of me. Gross? Sorry. But it was really awesome!
And as I pedalled furiously on the fake bicycle and jogged on the conveyer belt of the treadmill, I found myself thinking, 'I have to do this more often.' Then I asked myself, 'Why don't I?' Then I kept thinking. Why don't I do productive and beneficial stuff more often? Why don't I exercise more? Why don't I read more books that aren't prescribed by my classes? Why don't I spend more time with the people I like? Why don't I email my friends and family more often? Why don't I cook more? Why don't I read the Bible and pray more? Why don't I post more stuff on this blog?
It's because I make excuses. I constantly say to myself, "I can't do (insert activity that will enrich my life), I don't have time." But that's not true. I mean, I do find time to do mint stuff that helps me grow and think - for example, I went to this really interesting lecture on Genesis 1 and the claims of science given by a Wheaton College professor on Monday night - but there's so much more that I could and should be doing each and every day. It's all about time management; in particular, not wasting time. I devote so much time to useless things. It's about working really hard when I have work to do so I can enjoy doing things that will improve my existence guilt-free and not being chased for time to get schoolwork done. It's about keeping up a routine to a certain extent.
And another warped notion I have is that I'll be able to do all the stuff I feel that I should do later on, when I have more time. In a couple of weeks, a couple of months, next year, when I start working... Not right now, when I have piles of schoolwork to do. But this notion is, as I've already mentioned, warped. Things aren't ever going to slow down from here on. Life is only going to get busier and busier, and if I don't figure out how to manage my time NOW to do mint stuff on a regular basis, I never will. I can't afford to delay this, I have to start acting now.
Challenge for this week: hang out with God more daily, go to the gym every day, read a book that isn't for school, only check Facebook once a day (I've found that free wireless internet isn't necessarily a good thing), reply to emails promptly and be up to date with all my readings and recap work. I can do this.
Entries on Chicago, Boston and Washington DC will be up soon, I promise!
G.
PS. Another thought I had while fake cycling and treadmilling, unrelated to time management, was how much I miss my guitar. The answer is, a lot. When I go back to New Zealand I'm going to play the daylights out of it while singing at the top of my lungs.
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