Fight hard for your Goals

03.28.21 | I’m posting this a little later than usual but that’s because I’m having my weekly recaps go up on Sundays from now on. Let’s see how long I can stick to it, if at all. So I had my midterm exam on the 19th & it could have gone better, but I didn’t allow myself to dwell on it too much. I always find myself deep in self-reproach whenever I study really hard (to the point of confidence sometimes) but don’t get the results I want, yet when I do get those results I attribute it to pure luck & dismiss my hard work. It’s a vicious & incredibly draining cycle. I’m trying to break it little by little, & what’s currently helping is taking my mind off it.

Along with the self-deprecating thoughts, external, concrete things kept me company. I bought flowers & placed them around the house. The two books I ordered also arrived which was exciting (there’s an unboxing video on my bookstagram’s highlights). The last time I bought a physical book was in December of 2019 I think. I know it seems like an incredibly long time ago, but it doesn’t feel that way to me because I personally don’t buy books that often. Not out of prudence! My family has a considerable collection, most of which I haven’t read, & I’ve been making my way through them so buying books just doesn’t feel necessary. I still do it, of course, but I’m just not impulsive with it I guess. Makes every purchase more exciting though.

06.03.2021

tried out some new stamps and stickers for the first week of march!!

it was a pretty tiring week, but we got through it :))

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I am entirely consumed by my dissertation. After months and months of stagnation and brain fog, to work so hard at something and actually see progress is bliss. 

im super happy with how today went! i got the majority of the work I wanted to do today done using a list. the list really helped me out and I’ll definitely use lists more often now! i think I really need to work on my sleep schedule though.

hi all!

i was able to get a lot more done than i thought i would today. i basically focused most of my energy into my english class (which has the heaviest work load). i got through a shit ton of index cards i needed to turn in and i caught up on my reading.

i really wish I had more time to also give some more attention to my other subjects, but the amount of english work I have is overwhelming and it’s hard to manage my time because of it. i end up spending hours on like one or two english assignments and then realizing I have no time to do the rest of my work. i love english as a subject but I swear it can be so stressful sometimes. does anyone have any ideas as to how I can manage my time better?

anyways, remember to take care of yourselves 💓