Scatterbrained No More

It has been almost a month since I have updated this blog. That month has been filled with many fun weekends, wonderful conversations, good friends, rushed projects, procrastinated papers, and good grades to name a few things. Time sure has flown by, and I cannot believe it is already November. Professors keep forewarning us of the upcoming two weeks until Thanksgiving and then of the difficulties to come in the subsequent weeks after the holidays and before finals. But oddly enough, I am not worried. I feel prepared. I feel like my scattered thoughts have disappeared, and things are getting done.

I find that my problem in getting things done is distraction. It is so easy to come back to my dorm and plan on finishing X, Y, and Z only to have difficulty actually beginning the task at hand and seeing it through to completion. This weekend, I decided to change that. I powered off my computer, stuck it in the desk drawer, and started on all the odds and ends I needed to finish (i.e. take out the trash, do laundry, put up pictures on walls). Cleaning always relaxes me. I find that if my environment is organized and clean, then I can sit down and focus on the task at hand. Earlier this week, I found myself missing those nights where I would find myself late at McDonalds, sweeping, mopping, and cleaning the store for the next morning. Now, I know if you put me back in that situation for several days in a row again, I would be begging for something else because it's tiring, but at the same time de-stressing. A chance, to just let your mind wander as the mop goes back and forth across the tile floor, on the events of the week. And this Friday was my chance to do just that, to turn up the music and not force my brain to go fifty million different directions. I think this will be something I must do more of, forcing myself to ignore that tendency to open up a new tab when I haven't even finished the email I am writing, to turn on the radio as I work, or to check the news feed as I write that paper. Multitasking gets me no where, only leaves me scatterbrained.