Hello,
How are you doing? How was last week? I hope life has been good to you?
Yes, this mail is on a Monday. Lately, I have been struggling with writing on weekends because of my tight schedule. I guess I might have to change my writing day. Plus, I don't like writing under stress or pressure to deliver. Hence, I have to work towards a time that is a bit convenient. Hopefully, I will decide on what to do and communicate to you.
Anyhoo, I am fine. Grateful to God for how last week went. I did a writing gig that I was not expecting. It was on Master's questions. I was hesitant to do it. However, I did it through God's grace and it was good. Apart from this, I have been living life as it comes.
For today, I will share with you on planning. If you are like me, you plan how your day is going to be. My example looks like this๐๐พ.
This has helped a LOT! I found that I am very good at planning things in my head eventually I don't do them. This makes me feel guilty at night when I am about to sleep while thinking of what I did during the day.
Other situations exist that even with the plans for the day, I still do not do those things I should do per time. A typical example is this: when you planned to stay on social media for like 30 minutes and by the end of 30 minutes, a video, a message, or an article pops up on your screen. You know that you are supposed to stop at this moment but you tell yourself 'I just want to see fast fast ๐'. This your 'seeing' goes on for the next 30 minutes, 1 hour, or even more. No, I am not judging you. I struggle with this too. On some days, I keep to time while on some other days, I keep 'seeing'.
In that instance, you can explain it away that you are at fault and the next day you will try to be more disciplined. Now, let's look at a different situation. What happens when you have planned your activities for the day, but a particular task extends beyond the time you allocated for it? Thus, an external factor is to be blamed for this time 'wasting'. This is the part I don't like at all. Sometimes, it messes up other things I want to do. It can also get mentally exhausting. However, this is life. Things may not always go as you plan and that sucks, true! but it helps to reposition your mind that there are things that you absolutely can't control.
Also, in those moments when you feel your plans have been 'hijacked' from you, it is not the time to start wishing you did something else or you could have avoided that situation. Understandably so, when the situation could have been avoided. What happens when you could not avoid it? Do you go ahead to blame yourself? Do you say things like maybe you should have just stayed at home, taken another route, not gone for that class because the lecturer will always be late and so on. Sadly, these thoughts will come but it is best not to feed them. What these thoughts do is make you feel bad for things you can't control or classify your planning skills as 'poor' which is not true. I felt this way on Saturday, but I have had to reposition my mind deliberately to understand that there are times my schedule will not go as planned even with my great planning skills. At other times, I can choose to extend a task or not even do it at all because of simple reasons. It still does not make me/you a bad planner. Things happen, plans change.
Therefore, in this new week, choose to plan your day. choose to stay on course. As you choose, bear in mind you can't have everything together always. You just try by planning.
I leave you with these few words:
Sometimes things just don't go as planned. It is life not you all the time.
I wish you a great week!โจ
All my love + everything nice
The Purple Girl.
This is really great girl๐