Revisiting My Writing Process

In this post I will be reflecting on my very first posts. I will also be giving a forecast of where I think my time management skills and self motivation are heading.

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After looking over my first two blog posts, I realized just how optimistic I was about the start of this semester. For my Calender reflection, I told myself I was going to have a lot of time to get homework out of the way at night, usually around 7-10 and what ended up happening was that I would get home and either sit on the couch playing video games or just fall asleep. My time management was not that successful on other parts as well because I also thought I was going to go to every single class especially in the morning, but what ended up happening is I would oversleep or just not want to go that day, which says a lot about my self motivation.

However not everyday was bad, there were some days where I stuck to my schedule and got all of my homework done on time and everything was good. For this class, I mainly focused on getting all of my homework done on the Friday and Saturday, due to the fact that those were my most free days and I was able to just sit down and accomplish all of my tasks.

In the future, after reflecting on this semester, I have noticed several things.

• My time management skills suck. With that said, it is always great to know where to improve. For the coming years, I hope to get into a set rhythm and pattern to be able to accomplish things easily and effectively.

• 8 am classes do not work for me. I think that part of my problem was that after getting up so early in the day and then going until I get home at around 7 I was just too exhausted to get anything accomplished. However, one thing that I face is that I am not able to sleep much past 8 or 830 which means that 9 am classes are probably best for me.

• My self motivation also is pretty bad when it comes to things I'm not the best at. I am not that good at writing which is why my motivation for this class was bad, but I really did like the class overall. With this said, I think that my motivation for things that I find interesting and that are easy for me is what I focus my attention on when I should be evenly distributing my efforts.

Of these three things, I would say that one of the most important things I got out of this class was how to work effectively and get the jobs done. My writing style changed from a procrastinator to a mainly a heavy planner, making it really easy to just sit down and put my ideas on paper (or computer). I think that this reflects the way that the next several years of my life will turn out because I have learned that even though things may not be fun, they still have to get done (did I just rhyme?).