#notime #freespirit

Wow, so this week has been a crazy busy week and I have done everything. (Almost literally everything.)

Somehow this week I managed to 1) workout every day 2) do a full 8-9 hours a day at school AND 3) still have time for baking and friends.
I honestly am not sure how that happened. but I did it. I did it all and I feel great.

My teachers (and almost literally the entire world) have told me time and time again that it is essential to take time for leisure, to take time to workout, and to take time for friends. I didn't think I had time for friends, so these past two years of college I have been sacrificing health, exercise, and much needed social time for homework. This year I am astounded at how wrong I was. I don't need naps this year and I don't know why. I don't get burned out so fast and I don't know why. I can focus better for longer making me much more efficient, and again, I don't know why. But I can guess. I'm guessing giving my body exercise, going to bed earlier, waking up earlier, and spending time with friends balance my body. Instead of forcing my body to run one specific type of task all day long until it literally can't focus enough to do it anymore, I give my body a break. I re-energize when I work out and spend time with friends. For some reason this makes me a healthier, happier, more efficient person.

I know, Intuitively it makes no sense. You would think that taking time to do other things would take time away from doing the things you need to do like work and homework. I'm not pretending to understand why taking time away from homework to do healthy things makes school easier, because I really don't get it. But I do know that after this hectic week of managing to do a week and a half of school work (I had to catch up from missing classes last week) and still do all those other things I am sold. I will definitely be taking time each day to workout and spend with friends


Also, not everything I am made to do in life fits exactly what I want. There is this one class (with a great teacher whom I am hoping will not get offended that her class is not my favorite) that just bugs me. It's my business communications class I acknowledge that the information is important, that grammar is important, and that sounding educated is important. But it's all a little too far in my opinion. I'm a recreation major, my life is about relaxing and doing things on a professional yet more towards informal basis. Everything in the class seems to have more rules than necessary, and the mannerism is just stiff. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that professionalism doesn't have to be stiff- full of rules and robot like procedures. There are plenty of successful businessmen/women who know how to relax even when they are doing business. In fact some of the top rated business have the least boring offices like Google, AOL and Red Bull. Google is one of the most respected companies in the world and it has a slide going through it! If your professional self and your personal self aren't nearly the same person you are doing something wrong. Relax.

oh and here is the xkcd comic that perfectly describes how I feel right now about my grammar class:
http://xkcd.com/1576/

~Birdy