Hello family and friends,
I almost done with the recap. Wow does a lot of stuff happen here! Really soon I will send updates about my life right now. Probably next email. FYI, tomorrow the next fasting lte starts, so expect an update about it in a week or so!
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Here at TeenMania, it seems like Thanksgiving and Christmas Break are almost the same thing. That is because there are only two and a half weeks from when I get back to campus after Thanksgiving to when I leave again for Christmas.
Thanksgiving really illustrated to me that I didn’t have virtually any time management skills. Here at TeenMania, 70% of my schedule is determined for me, by responsibilities like class and work. When I got home, I found that without the structure, my self-discipline fell through the floor. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I was seeking God and discovered what needed to change. Then during Christmas break, I put forth effort to change it.
I was partially successful at changing my time-management situation, but not completely. I think there were two problems: 1) In my estimations, I forgot about relationships. 2) I didn’t expect to have several large projects appear in my todo list.
I am not extremely relational. I am working on it – it is a skill I wish to develop, but at first glance, when I see a slot of time, I think of what work I can get done during that time, not who is going to be at the same place that I may want to talk to. Thus, I tend to drop the assignment for the sake of the person, because people are more important. However, what I need to do is plan when I am going to spend time with them, and get the work done during the other time.
As far as the large projects go, over both Thanksgiving and Christmas break I worked on college-related things. First of all, I applied to my college of choice, which required a lot of work (being a perfectionist) writing essays. Second of all, I entered into an essay competition for a scholarship. The question was “How to Solve the Foreclosure Crisis”. This topic obviously takes a lot of thought, and the essay was supposed to be between 1,000 and 2,500 words long. All in all, it took me a long time to do, but I got the essay in several days before its deadline.
Now, I am continuing to work on my time management skills. As you may have noticed, this series of Updates are labeled as “Christmas Break Updates”. I was planning on making that the case, but I am just finishing up now, 2 weeks later. But the point is that I got the time to write this today. I take this as a significant success, and I intend on continuing the tradition.
