January 11, 2019 in Letters to my Friend

Dear Friend,

Another day. How can I make the best of it? I’m so stagnant these days. I have to use prosebox to motivate me to do things.

I’m thinking that I’m letting all of this overwhelm me so much. Maybe I should just focus on one thing at a time, whatevrr i may want to do. Maybe i should spend the minimal amount of time for each thing that I have to do, and after that, I do whatever I want. Otherwise I’m so drowned and I don’t know what to do and I end up doing nothing.

Finish eating, cook new rice and make a smoothie, DONE.

Daily things that I must do.

-30 minutes rosary
-30 minutes law PS
-30 minutes nature essay
-30 minutes for techne paper
-30 minutes fixing AMA paper
-30 minutes blogging about NYC
-35 minutes LSAT
-30 minutes exercise
-30 minutes for book review
-30 minutes prepping for class
-30 minutes applying for some conference, seminar, or fellowship.
-30 minutes vocal exercise, conditions permitting.

Will I even have time for anything after that? But you know what, I don’t care. I do all I can, thats all. Having a plan like this keep me moving, rather than none at all.

I’m done cleaning the kitchen. Now I take out the trash. DONE. I’ll save the smoothie for later.
Now, change into comfy pants and set up my table to work. DONE.

My computer is turning on, so I call my landlord about my bedroom light and showerhead. They’re on lunch break. I’ll try again.

Well, first one on the list then. My rosary. DONE.
Ok, onto the next thing, law school personal statement. Which I hate. 30 minutes. I have like 6 minutes of pomodoro left. I can make that phone call to my landlord. Ok they’re still out for lunch. I guess I’ll respond to a message or an email.

Respond to Person 1. DONE.
Respond to Person 2. DONE.
I got one minute pomodora left. Craft a response to my mom now in that one minute. DONE.

Now, the thing I hate, the law school statement. DONE!!!! THIS IS SO WEIRD! I’M DONE! I’m done with the most painful task. It was actually fun and I made progress! Woo hoo! I hope I keep this one up!

Well that was my big win of the day. Now, 30 minutes for my essay for philosophy of nature class. I’ve been researching so much for that paper. Now I’ll just be writing. DONE. I made a bit progress. But it’s sure better than nothing.

After a 30 minutes pomodoro long break, I carry on with paper on the topic of “techne,” which I plan to write for a conference I want to go to. True, I’m writing a paper just for a conference, and hopefully for publishing. I haven’t researched much, so I’m going to research for this one. 30 minutes. (I called my landlord too, DONE). DONE.

Boy does this feel good. I sure hope this is my ultimate productive hack.

Okay, 30 minutes to fix my essay for the AMA conference. DONE.

What a productive afternoon! And it’s only 4:30 PM woo hoo!

Next task should be more fun: blogging about NYC for my family. 30 minutes. DONE. Well that was slow, but oh well. I’ll come back to it tomorrow.

I’m kinda hungry. I think I’ll go eat. Wonder if eating will become my downfall later. To bad I ran out of vegetables. I have to go to the store tomorrow. Wonder if I should just go to the store 3 times per week, whether I’m planning to buy anything or not. I can always stuff them in the freezer, right? Oh, I just remembered I have a can of olives. Ok. That’s veggies, right?

Now I’m full. I’m thinking of running at 5:30 instead of 6 so it’s less dark, but I just ate. Guess I’ll just do the 35 minutes LSAT. set up the lamp. Gather the tools. Do the LSAT. DONE. Wow that was a really good LSAT session. I think I’m so retaking the LSAT. ah ha!

Now I’m gonna change into work out clothes and go run. I should run for 20 mins then skip rope.

I finished my run and now I’m sitting here feeling good. Eeeeek. I should go skip rope, then hit the shower and clean my face with olive oil. Do it now!
Didn’t think I would make it to 200 but I did! I am so donating to Prosebox now. Who would know this site is such a coold productivity tool!

Now I’m gonna make and drink a smoothie. DONE.

Talking to my folks took a while. I even got into watching the Southside with you trailer. Wonder why.

Alright now. Onto the book review. I did brought this upon myself, don’t ask. I’ll start with reading a few book reviews and a few how-to’s. Then I’ll start reading the book and take notes. 30 minutes. DONE. All I did was just to look up the direction again, download some sample reviews. I have yet to read the book. I can’t wait, though. This book is all mine!

Next, I should do 30 minutes of vocal warm up. It’s 9 PM now. I don’t want to sing at midnight and waking people up. My roommate isn’t home right now. I wonder how I’ll warm up during the semester. DONE. I feel kinda strained in my throat. Hmmm. I wonder if it wasn’t the optimal warm-up.

I need to clean the house tomorrow, too.

This is so cool! I’m getting through the list! Alternating between tasks helps me stay excited and motivated, and Wendy Belcher has said that you’d be able to pick up right where you leave off. Which is kind of the opposite of Cal Newport. Now I regret having given my sister Cal Newport.

Aw man, I got into procrastinating! Ok, time to shape up. I was watching this channel one of my old roommates, a drop-dead gorgeous dancer, co-creates with her husband (they’re 23).

Ok, 30 minutes prepping for class. Meaning reading philosophy. DONE. I got 1/7 of the reading for Wednesday done. Not bad.

Just one more thing, come on! I need to do this, come on! 30 minutes for applying for some conference, seminar, or fellowship. Ok fine, the description is really vague. I really could write an email to Pepperdine Law. DONE. All I did in 25 minutes was looking at the website and wrote that email. Oh well.

My day is over. Thank you, Prosebox, for a productive day! Couldn’t have done this without you.

I’ve been thinking of you, too, my Friend. I know I was talking to myself the whole time, but I still want to have you in the background.

Love,
Your fangirl.