Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Time Management

Lately I've been trying to do more with my time than I have been for the past few years. I always feel better and more motivated when I'm getting more done. In middle school and high school, I kept up top marks, did theater after school and clubs often at lunch, took guitar, piano and singing lessons (including practice time) and at various times also did dance class (grade 8+11), volleyball (grade 8), Job's Daughters (grades 7+8), Children's Choir (grades 5-10). I also kept up my social life and hung out with friends on the weekend, went to open mic and coffee house nights, and kept up a lot of hobbies like making clothes, writing and stuff like that...I did lots of stuff. I slowed down a little bit in university, but that's really a relative term. By my last year, I studied full time and kept up my grades, worked part time, and still had the time to practice singing, piano, guitar (which, admittedly was part of my studies, but it still took time aside from my academic courses and I played music that wasn't jazz sometimes), wrote, made clothes, and still had time to hang out with friends a lot and go to on mini trips all over Vancouver Island every few weeks.
When I moved to Germany I slowed down a LOT. Maybe I needed that....just time to sit back and enjoy life a little. But I think I'm much happier being busy. It's hard to get back into the swing of my old life in my new life...I guess it's a habit and I'm not in that habit anymore. But I'm trying. I started university again full time last year, and this year I'm working on organizing my house a lot, and I started French classes and Toastmasters. I'd like to maybe do kickboxing (something I've talked about for over a year but still haven't got the guts to do) or piano lessons again. I'm also looking for a job. I'd really like to add more of my artistic stuff back in though, in a fuller way like I managed to in the past.
I guess part of it is also that I have a LOT more responsibility now than I did then (I didn't have to spend time calling electricians or oiling my deck before, for example), and I had a car to do errands with as well. But I still feel like I could be doing -more-.

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