Make a plan, stick to it.
Don't worry, you got this! Make a plan, stick to it, work things out. You have as many hours in your day as Beyonce! Okay she has people doing stuff for her, but you know what I mean.
So, take a list of paper. Write down all of the things you need to do. Everything. You need to go to the bank, you need to study, you need to call somebody, you have to send an email. Just write it down, all of it. Then write numbers next to it. 1 is the most important and 9218926 is the least important. Then rewrite it, from 1 to all the way down. Now you have everything in front of you. Take a deep breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself. You will work things out, you will take care of everything. Just get your ass off the couch.
Take another paper and just write the number 1 and what it is that you have to do. Make a plan on how you will take care of it. Just start by choosing a day and break it down to hours. And go crazy here, make a plan for that day hour by hour.
For example, this is how I do it:
If you have a lot of things on your mind, this will help you keep everything in order and prevent you from forgetting stuff. And write everything down, everyting!
But there is another thing you should think about. If you answer the question "How are you?" with "Crazy busy!" all the time and most people start a conversation with you like "I know you are really busy...", you should really do something about your lifestyle. Set your priorities straight. Do you really need to go have 10 drinks with your friends a day? That won't get you a job. Take a week and write down what you do through the day. You wake up, you spend two hours on Instagram, then another one on Facebook and then you go grab a coffee. And if you have a job, that takes away 8 hours in your day. And then another coffee and you study a little and you're tired and you need to go to bed to get some sleep. And then you spend one hour watching funny cats. Hey, that's not exactly sticking to the plan.
First of all, figure out what you want. Do you want to finish school and get a job? Okay so your priority is not playing basketball all day long, but studying. Do you want to be a dancer and you still go to school? Okay study so you get through high school and dance as much as you can. When a chance come knocking at your door, you'll be ready. Do you want more money? Work hard and work smarter. How to do that? Make a plan! Think about things that are getting you closer to what you want and stop wasting time on things that are not.
Another thing. People you hang out with. If you want to be successful, hang out with successful people and learn from them. They are doing things that can take you there. If you take advice from people that spend their days playing video games, what do you think where these advices will get you? To a basment with a X-box in your lap.
You are who you hang out with. Not just based on their education and jobs, but based on their way of thinking. I hate it when people say "He is sooooo intelligent but he just doesn't know what to do with his life and the society doesn't understand him...". Just stop it, we all know that's not the case. If you are really that intelligent, you know your IQ won't pay your bills. And if you don't care about that, you can't be that smart either. You know what smart people do? They take care of their business and they find a way to get what they want. They work their asses off.
Think of anyone successful. What do you think how they got there? It's blood, sweat and tears. It's hard to make your life a damn masterpiece. On your way there, you can lose a lot. You can lose friends, you can lose lovers, you can even lose your job. But it's your journey, not theirs. So nobody is going to do your work, forget about it.
What people really like to do, is looking for exuces. You think you are not where you are not because you didn't do what you should, but because of this and that. I found a list of most common excuses, hope you don't use a lot of them.
1. I don't have enough time.
2. It's too late, I should have started earlier.
3. It's too hard.
4. I'm waiting for the right inspiration.
5. I don't have enough money.
6. I'm too tired.
7. I'll start tomorrow.
8. I'm too young.
9. I'm too old.
10. It's not meant to be or it would've happend by now.
11. I don't have enough talent.
12. It'll take too much time.
13. I'll have to neglect the people who need me.
14. I'm not sure it's the right thing.
15. What if I fail? (yeah, so what if you do?)
16. I have too much on my plate.
17. It's too risky.
18. I'm too scared.
19. I don't have the right resources.
20. I've alredy invested too much time in what I'm doing now.
21. I don't have the right connections.
22. Too many people have already tried and failed.
23. I don't know how to do that.
24. Nobody will support me.
25. I don't have the skills.
26. I don't know where to start.
27. I don't have the guts.
28. I can't beat the competition.
29. This isn't the right time.
30. No one has ever done it before.
You know, if you really want something, you'll work hard for it. Set your goals high, you can get yourself there. Make a plan, stick to it. You are the master of your destiny. You can find a way or you can always find excuses. If you ran out of them here's a list, just scroll up.
Till tomorrow.
Tjaša