It is always a great feeling to have some sort of break coming up. Whether it’s Christmas break, Fall Break, or in my case, Spring Break. But the truth is, breaks don’t really exist. Take the Spring Break I just had, for example. I tried to get ahead in all of my classes by completing all my work due that week by Thursday, so Friday through the following Sunday, aka today, could be fully off. The funny thing about that is after returning from break, I am left with 2 exams on Wednesday, I haven’t studied for, and about 6 homework assignments due Monday at 12pm. This post is mostly for my case to never take any days off. Today I came back to school and completed one of six homework assignments before deciding that I could finish them all tomorrow. Obviously, that will be a challenge and will likely cause me not to do as well on my exams on Wednesday. So if I were to do everything the “proper” way or the way to do as well as possible in college or any other endeavor in life, I would have chipped away piece by piece at my studying and homework throughout break. The two biggest struggles for anyone, in my opinion, of course, are procrastination and believing you have enough time. The clock is always ticking, so it is important to remember every time you snooze that alarm or think you can do it some other time. That is simply an illusion. Breaks do not exist, and Sundays are never an excuse to take a day off.

Tomorrow, I have scheduled every minute of my day to include all of my workouts and studying. Hardcore time management is really the only cure for procrastination, but if it were just slight time management over a longer period of time, I could have achieved better results. Now, my goal of preparing for a service academy includes using strict time management every day, so that I can excel physically, academically, and mentally once I arrive. I will update my readers on my workouts, completed assignments, and some other random topics sometime tomorrow.