Time management

My largest failing this year has definitely been my time management and organisation. I was already terrible at these but this year I have just let myself continue to be terrible without putting into account how much things like New York and finding a place to live over Christmas took away from the time I had to waste. I didn't realise it at the time but the start of my stress for ppp, responsive and cop started when I went to New York. As I was already a little behind on 504 before I went I had to put all of my energy and focus into making sure I would be able to finish it for hand in when I came back. I had told myself that it would be fine if as I'd be able to work over christmas. I was not able to work over christmas, I had to prepare a christmas for boy and try and find somewhere to live before I started uni again. This whole process meant that I became very single minded about the modules and ended up saying that I'd be able to catch up on them over Easter. Yet again this didn't work out like I'd hoped I had one beautiful week where i was able to come into college and make progress before I had to look after boy all week and as soon as I was able to get back to work I got the flu. This flu was the type where you're stuck in bed for over a week and by the time you're able to leave bed you still feel like you're brain has melted into puddle for most of the day. This combined with how stressed I can get about coming into the studio and how a childish argument removed my place in the studio meant that for the past month or so I have had to work near constantly. Working 9-9 has worked really well for me as it meant that I didn't stress about when I left at 9 because I knew I had done all the work I could have done for that day. It also meant that in the evening hours there would only be a couple of others in the studio which suits me much better than having everyone in and working. However while working those hours saved me they also have been incredibly draining when kept up for so long. For the next year I'm really going to need to work longer days and organise my time better as I can't do this again. Also I'm hoping to be better when Hollie, Rowena, Adam and Becky move in near me as I'll want to leave with them on the morning. I'm hoping this will mean that as my lateness will effect others I'll be better at coming in. We will see ....