Once again, I’ve been delinquent in my duties to this blog. I assure you it was not my intention to be away so long. Even so, I’m not sure how long I will be able to regularly update this semester. I’m currently still at my day job, and in addition I am teaching clarinet lessons, teaching a class at the university three times a week and also acting as “manager” for a couple of youth wind ensembles on the weekends. All of my skills in organization have had to be funneled straight into my life lately!
I will say this though, especially for all of you still in college who are wondering how you are going to survive the rest of the semester: it will all get done. Sometimes it will be ugly. You might not have time for all the things that you really want to do. You might not be as prepared as you’d like for things that you have to do. You might make some mistakes. But if your heart is truly in getting it all done–it will happen.
Take just a few minutes and really think about the most important things in your life right now. Do any of them have deadlines? Attend to those first. Then think about the rest. Can you kill two birds with one stone with anything on your list? Can you get by “on autopilot” for a week with any of your responsibilities? Do it.
My Mom has a saying…I think it’s that, “anyone can do anything for a week.” At least I think it was a week. At some point in my life it became “a month.” During college I decided that the phrase should have said, “a semester.” Then I realized when I started teaching that when I repeated it I was saying “a year.” And now I am repeating to myself, “anyone can do anything for two years…or possibly three?”
I’m not saying that I’m “right” about this in the way that I suggest you follow in my footsteps. But I do know that I’m “right” in that you can do so much more than seems possible at this moment. All you need is a healthy dose of perspective.
And possibly a Starbuck’s hot chocolate. 😉
Chin up people. This too shall pass.