I smell like sweat. That makes sense, since I just went running, but I feel like it works well as a metaphor for a large percentage of my mental and emotional processes right now.
I spent my first week back at BYU battling apprehension and fear and getting tripped up by my slow summer pace and the slippery slope of self-absorption. However, I AM BACK! In the saddle, that is. I know this semester will bring plenty of challenges, but, in the words of the wise woman Arlene Ludlow, you must act as if it were impossible to fail. Plus I like school (mostly). ( :
I know the basics - sleep enough, exercise daily, eat right, have a set time to study for each class, be where you are (including dealing with problems instead of beating yourself up for having them), take good notes, give yourself spiritual time to meditate, enough time to study well but efficiently for classes and exams, make time to serve others, and let's not forget the key - Simplify. So, like I said, I think I've got the basics - I just have trouble implementing them.
Maybe it all does come back to the key - simplify. But how to do so when your life is naturally complex? My plan is this - write things down, do them to your best and most efficient ability, and focus on one thing at a time.
Let me add an important note to this dialogue by saying that I am incredibly lucky.
Also, here's a stream-of-consciousness mini-ode to my apartment -
There is a mountain on your wall. I sit under it, staring at screens and pages of words. I look at it, sometimes, when my eyes are closed and then I remember the reason that I'm here. And just for an instant my eyes open wide and I feel wind on my face and light in my heart and I know possibility - I know peace. And then the rest of my mind catches up to my spirit and I pull my face off the old wooden table and my head drops out of the clouds and seeps back through the 40 year old brick walls and the peeling white paint of my ceiling into my isolated eyesight and I try to remember seeing you as you could be and me as I am.
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I'm not exactly an expert on getting things done, but a system that works for me and helps me stress less is this: I write each task on a sticky note, which I stick to my door. Sometimes I have 20 or 30 of them up there--but some of them are small things like "call doctor" or "get haircut" and when I feel overwhelmed I can just start with those and work my way through, removing each sticky note as I complete the task on it. It helps with the one thing at a time goal.
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