Resource Management
Busy is a relative term. A person can be preoccupied with a fuzz ball on their sweatpants and be busy. In another life, they could be contemplating the activation of stereotypic cognitions in the a social situation.. and be busy. Other individuals have a pretty routine schedule that allows for a lot of moving from one place to another with plenty of time in between just in case there's traffic, the hubby is held up at work or the kids aren't just yet ready to leave for soccer practice...
What kind of busy are you? Are you busy or do you find the time to become bored? Better yet, can you be bored and busy at the same time... very likely this happens to all of us when we're at work. Now onto my dilemma, I have...
1) Approx. 100 pages of reading to do every day, all seven days of the week.
2) More reading...
3) Even more reading..
I'm not complaining, this is the life of a career student.. or as it says on the resume, graduate student.. and for the few out of the billions of people on this planet who actually earn a masters degree or above, life will never be the same..
To be continued...
What kind of busy are you? Are you busy or do you find the time to become bored? Better yet, can you be bored and busy at the same time... very likely this happens to all of us when we're at work. Now onto my dilemma, I have...
1) Approx. 100 pages of reading to do every day, all seven days of the week.
2) More reading...
3) Even more reading..
I'm not complaining, this is the life of a career student.. or as it says on the resume, graduate student.. and for the few out of the billions of people on this planet who actually earn a masters degree or above, life will never be the same..
To be continued...
2 Comments:
hey I am SO busy trying to manage 20 credits this semester so I can relate to how your feeling..... but mind you this post to your random blog (that i did not know you had) is pure procrastination (aka lets surf all my myspace friends pages) from the MASSIVE amounts of work I have to accomplish tonight. Therefore, the round about point I'm trying to make is your blog is somewhat an act of procrastination.
But on another note.... at least your busy expanding your mind rather than working out the muscles in your fingers as your play with fuzz. Also, I believe that resting the mind with mundane activities can be beneficial to retaining information for when your are busy. Like its recommend 8 hours of sleep a night.... it should be recommend 1 hour of nothing a day. (only an hour because well I'm too busy to waste more than an hour hahah)
take it easy, I'm sure you will accomplish all of your work, after-all if you where not good at you wouldn't be in Grad school
meg
P.S. I'm glad i stubbled across this on your myspace page ... cuz it kicked me in the pants to get my work done ..thanks
Meg, most mindful meditation is grounded on pulling the mind away from intense cognition and focusing attention on less intense cognition; a visualization of light is a good example.
All my blogger friends and I should take your words to heart and break from the norm of our insanity to find some time for peaceful quiet. Thanks ;)
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