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A Quick Blog

 I have been meaning to write a blog for a while now. I had so many ideas and insights I wanted to capture and then I just kept pushing it, because I was trying to prioritize sleep, or it was too hot, or I got too busy. Even with the new blogging requirement of minimum posting numbers weekly, something that should take only minutes to do I still let 3 weeks go by with nothing posted, and now those blog topics are hazy at best and gone at worst.  So here is a blog, it is little and not very positive, but while writing this I have realized that I need to further work on streamlining my blogging/posting process. With the update of adding our numbers to the end of blogs I was working on making my requirement tracking more automatic, but now I think the next step is finding a way to write blogs not using my laptop will help me speed things up. For some reason the thought of  1) getting up  2) opening my laptop  3) logging in and  4) opening blogger  is too ...

Time (mis)Management

I've really been struggling with time management as of late. Not enough time to do the things I want to do, not enough time to do the things I need to do. Struggling to keep track of things, being forgetful, feeling like time is slipping through my fingers and suddenly I've lost whole days, whole weeks! My requirements aren't where they need to be and with the halfway point of the year approaching I've been stressing about what this means for my trajectory. One more than one occasion I've caught myself thinking in ways that I know are traps: maybe I should just do a big push for a while until I'm caught up again that's not sustainable! maybe I should attend fewer classes and use that extra time for myself  so you want to work on your kung fu by not participating in kung fu? maybe if I shove kung fu to the top of my priorities, ignoring some other stuff I can get caught up   my "other stuff" is also my kung fu so ignoring it is the opposite of worki...