Time Management

I am usually very good at managing time. Right now I have been keeping up well with my school work and keeping a healthy relationship with my girlfriend and family and keeping in shape. I have quite a bit of free time and need to get a job or start training for football. I'm afraid to do either because it will cause me to have less time for my girlfriend and less personal time.

On occasion I do fail to manage my time and it makes me feel worthless and lazy. It always starts out with me putting off whatever I need to get done. Before I know it I'm on a deadline and rushing last minute to get whatever it is that I need to finish. Very rarely will I ever completely fail to get something done, however I feel stressed and pressured when I'm procrastinating and it makes everything in my life seem much worse than it actually is.

In highschool I never was very good at managing my time, but I think through maturity and discipline managing time has become second nature to me. I don't conciously think about managing my time, but I make sure I get everything done as soon as possible and never "take a break" until my project is done. When I get things done it gives me time to relax and do the things I want to do without having a project or task in the back of my head bothering me. This leaves me stress free and open for a spontaneous day.

I took a year off from highschool while I was in the army and I think it paid off. I don't feel that I was bad at managing time in highschool so much as I was just tired and bored of school. I'm sure I matured since highschool and I'm sure that helps, but it does help to have a break from school after twelve years of it. If I had jumped into college right after highschool I'd probably be doing a lot worse than I am. I always get my homework done, I have plenty of time since I don't need a job since I earned plenty in the military and they are paying me $2,000 a month to go to school, and I'm a stronger person, physically and mentally than I was in highschool. All shyness that I once had is gone and when I'm not talking it's because I don't want to, not because I'm shy.