Stressing over things you need to do
I came apon a real game changer this week for myself. I have a tendency to overwork myself and take a lot on my plate that I really shouldn’t, being that I’m in my last year of middle school.
However this week I found that I had to do multiple entries for a theatre competition, a buttload of ELAR assignment, an art project that was giving me a hard time to do, some monolouges that were part of that mentioned theatre competition, and so on. I felt so overwhelmed, and it was all due at most, this week Friday. Once again I was feeling stressed out about having to do so many things that they wouldn’t be turned in on time and I would miss out or make bad grades on them.
This happens every week, and this week was a little extra stressful and it was barely Monday. So, I figured since I have so much to do and I’m about to have a breakdown over it, why don’t I write everything I can think of that I need to do, and see what I need to do first. Immedietly, I came up with a long list, just for that day. Here’s the thing. They weren’t really big task. In fact, all of them would probably take an hour at most to do, and despite having a busy schedule, I could fit all of these things in throughout the week, if not in that one day.
I realized that all of these task that I was stressing over, were actually things that I could do IN class and some I was doing as one thing. I took a breath, cleared my mind, and revised my list. At most, I have 4 major things I need to do, that being Theatre, a simple power point I’m half way done with, my art project I found out is due on the 17 instead of this week, and homework in general. I realized that the shadow I had been so scared of, was really cast by a small hedgehog. So, now, all of my stress has drained away, I’m planning my work so I don’t loose time to finish it, and setting myself up for a better emotional path throughout the rest of the month.
What I want you to grasp from this is that if you feel over whelmed by a pile of responsibilities, you shouldn’t start doing them without a plan. Write a list, truly think about how long it’ll take to do most of those things, organize and plan out those activities, and in the end see how many of those things are still big and scary and long, and which ones are tiny gerbils in sweaters eating wittle snacks.
My anxiety and ADHD makes it really hard to get through every day without freaking out over simple task and “threats”, so organize, calm down, and just look at your life from an outside point of view, just list what you need to do, just think about how easy all of these task are, and just realize you’re not in danger if you mess up. It doesn’t matter if this get’s in now or a little late, and if it does need to be turned in that day, put it first. Don’t panic, and you’ll find your scary shadow is some cute fuzzy creature.
Felt like sharing that thanks.
