Organization

Hi!

So today I'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed. I'm starting to think ahead on all of the work I have to do.In this situation I feel it's best to write about it and how I'll go about dealing with it. After all, there's no better way to write a good blog than to actually be experiencing it. Of course I find that actually completing what I speak of here is important. That's the most important step: taking action!

At the moment it's a bit difficult to think because my mom has the music downstairs playing very very loud. It's very very frustrating because I can't quite think and I also have homework. It doesn't matter because something like this will make living alone for the first time, that much sweeter! haha

Anyways, when I'm feeling overwhelmed, I'd just take a break. If I'm in class I'll just step out. If I can't step out I'll just stop what I'm doing and just try to clear my mind. I find that this is key to keeping your cool. Find a place to go and breath. For me, the perfect thing to do would be to take a walk and get away from the noise. At my previous home going to the library worked for me.

Next, decide which task will take less time and which task will take the longest amount of time. In this situation I often like to do the shortest first and throughout the day do pieces of the longer task while taking mini breaks in between. These are tiny breathers.

The thing is to not give up! I find that it's easy to give up, but imagine yourself having complete it already. Also, if you complete one task you're already halfway there. For some reason it always seems like an impossibly long time to complete just one task, but the feeling of having complete all the task for the day is great! It's like you can finally breath.

The thing to do, when you have what needs to be done listed, is put them into action. Sometimes we have to do basic things in order to actually understand the more intermediate material.

For example, I would really like to learn different languages to communicate with people in their on language and actually understand them. In order to learn anything I have to start small. It's the most boring part, but it must be done. But what helps me is when I think about a baby/child and how they take a simple English class and constantly writing the same word again and again.

One thing I find interesting is that we often learn to speak before we learn to read and write. But that's because we're surrounded by the language. Oh! Another thing I found out recently is that we have this thing called a 'glottis' which help us with the development and creation of speech. I figured that something like this is used differently (to produce different sounds) for different languages.

Well, I can't type more now. I can't focus very well when it's noisy. So I'll write a part two. If there are some strange sentences, I apologize.

Mon