August 9, 2019 in Productivity Diary
Revised: 08/10/2019 2:52 a.m.
- Aug. 9, 2019, 1 a.m.
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The day is counting and the clock is ticking. The inevitable is going to come.
But I should remember what a nervous wreck I was when I started working in the Admission Office at my college, and I had to begin giving campus tours to prospective students and families. I was SO NERVOUS. I pushed off doing that for WEEKS!!! It was embarrassing. I never thought I could give a one hour speech while walking to complete strangers. I shadowed once. Then I shadowed another time. Then I did it once. It went okay. I was still really scared and avoiding it still. Then I did it another time. And then, at some point, I began to LOVE, LOVE, LOVE doing it. I thought it was the perfect job for me because I liked people and I loved my college experience and I had a lot to share about studying and such.
When I signed up to be a listener on 7 Cups of Tea I was SUPER NERVOUS and messed up my first chat too (wasn’t prepared). Now I’m pretty fine. I’m not real good at this job and hence I gave it up, but I could take chats now and feel absolutely no anxiety (the reason why I signed up for that volunteer job was because I met my absolutely favorite person while he was in that role).
I think, I hope, something similar will happen with teaching. It’ll be fine. Now I just have to do the best I could with preparing.
Why, why do I have to teach college kids?
Well okay, for tonight.
-Answer Dad’s email about law school
-Teaching prep in general
-Preparing lectures from Day 1
-Answer an email
10 minutes each
I haven’t been doing anything. Why?
11:12 pm answer Dad’s email about law school.
1:23 am I admit failure for today. Gotta try harder on Saturday. I will decide to be STRICT in keeping my resolution to not look at entertainment materials (well I went from law videos to clips from The Social Network)
I really, really have to do better tomorrow. The thing is, things just take longer than I intend them too.
I just have to work. No more distraction.
Last updated August 10, 2019
Deleted user ⋅ August 11, 2019
7 cups of tea?
dancingstrawberry Deleted user ⋅ August 11, 2019
Ya, it's a website for emotional support, where you can sign up for private 1-1 chats with a free listener, and in turn you may also volunteer as a listener on the site too.
It's a great idea for a website and the people who runs it have good professional standards and policies (the problem is to enforce them thoroughly). It's rather a hit or miss because you still have to deal with real people, but sometimes an amazing encounter happens :)
Deleted user dancingstrawberry ⋅ August 11, 2019
That is interesting !