Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Yet another self-improvement scheme

This used to be my belief:  It's not that I don't have time, it's just that I can't manage it.  I can't manage my time well because I'm always too damn tired. 

So I made a little list of what I ought to be doing.  Why should I do these things?  I don't know, but I feel compelled to do them, to "improve" myself:

I want to...

   read a book a week (at least 1 hour a day)
   become a better writer (2 hours a day)
   learn Mongolian (2 hours a day)
   study for korean/english test (2 hours, either TOPIK, GRE or TOFEL/TEPs)
   become a better cook (1 hour a day - hey I gotta eat what I make)
   practice music (1 hour a day)
   take pictures/ edit pictures (1 hour a day)
   exercise (1 hour a day)

Total: 11 hours a day.  

Given that I have a full time job and two (sorta) part time jobs, this confirms that I literally don't have the time to do everything that I want.  It's 5 after work, and I go to sleep at 12.  And if you consider one hour of extra work at home (it's usually more) and two hours of skyping a day, this means I have 3~4 hours to myself, without even counting eating and housework.  This is quite depressing.

or is it?  let's see if I can come up with a solution.

My solution:

sleep at 11:30, wake up at 6:30 instead, and exercise for an hour. 
screw music and pictures, do them during the weekend
study Mongolian while skyping.  My girlfriend is Mongolian anyways. (wait, did I say girlfriend?)
I usually have two hours of prep period during school (it's not much.  Korean schools have 0~7 periods, sometimes 8).  Practice writing at school.

So this pretty much solves everything, on paper at least.  Now, I'll have some fried chicken and beer to celebrate the successful creation and solution of the self-improvement list.  All this will start tomorrow, after my nap.  It always starts tomorrow.

2 comments:

  1. haha sorry for the late reply. I purposely didn't reply for some time because I wanted to see how many people read/cared enough about my life to post a comment. The answer is quite obvious: not many.

    But yes Elizabeth, I do have a girlfriend. She's Mongolian and she's wonderful. I like her more than anyone else I've dated/went out with so far in my life ^^

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