What could go wrong?
Like the song goes, but you can't do what you want if you have a stack of papers on your desk waiting to be figured out. This is first of many posts to help C/O 2009 grow and succeed in all endeavors. The first issue I will address is procrastination. It is is a HUGE issue for us as teenagers. It has left failed grades, jobs, and unclaimed scholarships in its wake. There are many ways to remove this untamed beast from your life, you'll just have to find what's right for you.
Administrators at Hoover say and use the Sean Covey approach from {the 7 habits of highly effective teens} using 7 highly effective habits. There written on banners all over our school:
Like the song goes, but you can't do what you want if you have a stack of papers on your desk waiting to be figured out. This is first of many posts to help C/O 2009 grow and succeed in all endeavors. The first issue I will address is procrastination. It is is a HUGE issue for us as teenagers. It has left failed grades, jobs, and unclaimed scholarships in its wake. There are many ways to remove this untamed beast from your life, you'll just have to find what's right for you.
Administrators at Hoover say and use the Sean Covey approach from {the 7 habits of highly effective teens} using 7 highly effective habits. There written on banners all over our school:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Take responsibility for your life
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Define your mission goals in life
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Prioritize, and do the most important things first
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Have an everyone-can-win attitude
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand then to be Understood
Listen to people sincerely
Habit 6: Synergize
Work together to achieve more
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Renew yourself regularly
Those are fine and dandy, if you want to read the accompany book and then want to remember all of that every time you get to a task. I'm sorry I'm just not built that way, you know. Procrastination is just an example of poor time management anyway.
What I do is write anything that is coming up if it is fairly important to me. Writing it down makes it official, it's like I'm telling my brain "I will do this". I made it a habit to actually do the stuff I wrote down, and I did not write anything that not important, or... urgent.
Whoa, I just had a Cardinals Interact flashback. That reminds me, they gave me a folder with laminated sides to use again and again. They also gave me a wet erase marker, but I digress.
You do still need be able to have fun, we are teenagers after all. So go to the beach with you friends, your cousin's quince, or just hang out. You still need time to unravel and talk about nothing; just in moderation.
Procrastination is something that we face everyday, we as teens must make the choice to travel the long slippery road to a life of unkept promises and appointments but have to face the consequences as well.
If you do even 20% of your list, it's enough to give your brain a feeling of accomplishment and the psychological boost to finish the rest. Keep yourself happy and anxiety free, so finish what you start and only start what you sincerely mean to finish.
What I do is write anything that is coming up if it is fairly important to me. Writing it down makes it official, it's like I'm telling my brain "I will do this". I made it a habit to actually do the stuff I wrote down, and I did not write anything that not important, or... urgent.
Whoa, I just had a Cardinals Interact flashback. That reminds me, they gave me a folder with laminated sides to use again and again. They also gave me a wet erase marker, but I digress.
You do still need be able to have fun, we are teenagers after all. So go to the beach with you friends, your cousin's quince, or just hang out. You still need time to unravel and talk about nothing; just in moderation.
Procrastination is something that we face everyday, we as teens must make the choice to travel the long slippery road to a life of unkept promises and appointments but have to face the consequences as well.
If you do even 20% of your list, it's enough to give your brain a feeling of accomplishment and the psychological boost to finish the rest. Keep yourself happy and anxiety free, so finish what you start and only start what you sincerely mean to finish.
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