plugging the small leaks!

It just hit me today: tomorrow is the first day of my final term as an undergraduate student. I can’t say I’m ready to face that prospect just yet – heck, I’m not even ready to face the prospect of handing in my classwork, let alone graduation, the transition into working life and all that jazz.

So to help get myself back on track, I created a personal list of simple rules to fix annoyingly simple things (that I keep forgetting to do) in my day-to-day routine. The rules aren’t incredibly glorious – they include stuff like making sure my work desk is tidy at the end of the day (can you feel my excitement now?) – but that’s really the best thing about them: they often happen to be the things we can actually get done with great ease and speed.

We ignore tasks like these not because they take a long time to do, but precisely because they are mundane. And sometimes, I think we ignore it at our peril, because just bothering to put certain things in order can sometimes make a big difference to our day – think about when you’ve had a bad day, or not had enough sleep, and you returned/woke up to a room that was a bloody mess. Maybe it’s just me, but that’s not exactly inspiring stuff!

So that’s how I’m going to kick off my new and final term. Not with an overarching grand ambition – not yet anyway – but with a straightforward goal: to plug those small leaks that have been sneakily whisking away my everyday motivation. Time to get back every damn drop of it!