{"id":6616,"date":"2017-10-27T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2017-10-27T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:50:31","slug":"struggling-plan-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/struggling-plan-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling to plan effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caity Healy | Lifestyle Editor<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve always struggled with finding ways to properly manage my time. Being a full time student, working two jobs and finding breaks to take care of myself and my mental health can be incredibly exhausting; it\u2019s definitely not an easy thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pairing this with the fact that I\u2019m also someone who will never leave a job unfinished can often lead to grueling, long nights of stress crying, a lot of complaining and inevitably more procrastinating that only fuels the vicious cycle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the start of the new school year, I wanted to try as best as I could to avoid making this habit become a serious problem. So, instead of letting it fester as time goes by, I\u2019m trying new techniques that have been significantly easing the workload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To-do lists have become my new best friend. Every week I create a new one, and add to it as each day goes by. Looking at everything I need to get done in an orderly fashion helps my brain envision my plan of attack. Plus, it feels incredibly relieving to be able to cross things off and see the list shrink before your eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also make sure to prioritize. For someone like me, everything that I know must be done is of equal importance. However, I\u2019m learning to weigh the pros and cons of each task and figure out what truly must be done first. In the end, if time doesn\u2019t permit me to get to a specific task, I\u2019m learning to understand that it\u2019s okay. My mental health is far more important than any assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Managing time is a learning process for me, and an incredibly beneficial one at that. The better I\u2019ve been getting at it, the stronger I feel as a whole. The tactics that I\u2019m teaching myself now are one\u2019s that I will continue to utilize through the rest of my life. What better time to pick up this skill than now?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at chealy16@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caity Healy | Lifestyle Editor I\u2019ve always struggled with finding ways to properly manage my time. Being a full time student, working two jobs and finding breaks to take care of myself and my mental health can be incredibly exhausting; it\u2019s definitely not an easy thing to do. Pairing this with the fact that I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1017,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}