"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Just Do Something

~Everyday there must be something I can't do, otherwise it's boring.
~Monet Robier

Being consumed by homework, I have found time goes by all too quickly (as in I should have gotten more done last night) but this week has taken forever! Haha, and yet, it feels good to be productive.

And, I am amazing myself with how I am handling this week without chocolate. Alright, I have one bar of chocolate-but to eat it would be to officially run out of chocolate. So, I was eating spoonfuls of my frosting (meant for that cake I am too lazy to bake-and prefer not to bake in my kitchen due to its constant state of grossness) and laughed when I saw the nutrition facts. Uh, more like "lack of nutrition" facts. But hey, it's the end of the semester... and I swear I am going to start working out when I move home.

Change of gears. So, I have been working on being productive-quite a necessary thing this week. And I've found that I can plan as much as I want when to do what homework. But I spend more time planning than doing homework sometimes. So I contented myself with just doing something. Granted I will be up all night working on a paper that wasn't the something I have buckled down to do, but I have finished exactly 60 things on my to-do-list this week as of right now.

I argue with myself that it would be better to wait and read that chapter at the library because while I am home with my computer I can do my online research. But then, I don't want to do online research... so I spend some time on Facebook, reading blogs, watching YouTube videos, and writing in my journal. Oh, and then I don't feel like going to the library :) And nothing gets done. I do hope I can maintain this "just do something" mindset for a while...
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