Prepare for Monday and Look Forward to Friday

Raise your hand if you are guilty of buying coffee at a campus coffee shop every day of the week, regularly forgetting your reusable water bottle, letting your laundry pile up, and checking your bank account at the end of the week to find that the majority of your transactions have been on snacks. Though not for certain, I’m sure several of us are raising our hands. For me, this type of spending was a result of my unorganized lifestyle. It was not until about a month and a half into the first semester of my senior year that I realized how personal organization and developing my career path (something high on my priority list as a senior) played such an important role in one another. Taking care of my personal lifestyle has positively impacted my productivity in my internship, dedication to studying, and preciseness in my lab homework.

Prior to the realization I have just described above, I put off grocery shopping, procrastinated doing my laundry, and, not surprisingly, had barely paid attention to job searching. However, once I took the time to plan out when I would attend to personal to-do lists rather than only focusing on school to-do lists, I found that I accomplished much more of what I wanted to do in order to have what I consider a successful last year of college.

For anyone who feels that there aren’t enough hours in day (well, that’s all of us, isn’t it?), I encourage you take a moment, or two, to consider what you wish was happening in your life. If you wish you were getting more sleep, consider what you can do during the hour break you have on Tuesdays and Thursdays to make that happen. If you wish you could save money throughout the week so you have more money to spend on fun activities, think about how you can become a savvy shopper at the supermarket to make that happen. When you take the time to think about what you think would make your life easier and the steps it would take you to get there, your life will improve in more areas than one. And, from one student to another, a little extra preparation here and there sets us up for a Friday, and even Monday, worth looking forward to.