I signed myself up on some workshop at the academic centre and I had the first class today, it is called "Combat Procrastination with Poetry". I got a lot out of this workshop and I'm glad that I signed up, and I got there on time, and I was the second person to get there. So I was proud of myself on that because the last time I got on time to any sort of meeting being the top people I'm pretty sure I don't remember when that was. And there are 4 rules of procrastination, to stop procrastination, a) always show up (it is the adult secret, in fact, 80% of my life is always going to be about "showing up") b) tell the truth c) don't get caught up on the outcome, and d) when it's over let it go. I'm going to start of my life from now on following those 4 rules, because as cliche as Nike commercial is it IS all about "just do it". There are also couple of procrastination and time management strategies, a couple I meant like 10 of them, and I'm going to start off with two for now. 1) Set a goal: always set a goal while I study, to set a goal for the study period, what I need to know and understand in that given time, and 2) do the work: divide the work into smaller tasks and explore finding systems while I do them. As easy and simple as they are, people tend to forget them, we stop thinking sometimes when life gets easy, aka high school and being little smart for Canadian high school system and being spoiled and all that. In this workshop we were asked to write a free write and a poem and then a free write, each under 5 mins, and I was shocked for the stuff that I wrote down and how much I realized and see about procrastination; procrastination hurts my soul. I don't want procrastination to be one of my characteristic, and I don't want Emma Tsui to be defined as slack, crack, slacker, procraste, lacker, and I certainly don't want to be in procrasti-nation, the nation where everything is easy and they take me nowhere in life. I felt guilty when I procrast. So period. There, I have it. Just do it.
Tomorrow, there is one more workshop, and it's called Motivation. I'll let you know what I learn.
Time that I took to write this: around 10 mins.
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