What I’ve learned about getting my life together.

some wise words…

“Wake up early. Drink coffee. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind up, and your head right. Do well, live well, dress well. Do what you love, love what you do. It’s time to start living.”

-unknown

This week was a mix of emotions and honestly, it’s hard to distinguish it all. At the moment I am lacking focus, motivation, and productivity. I’m excited with the holidays coming up, but I am so emotionally and mentally drained that everything feels so weird. I feel like there’s so much I wish to talk about, but for some reason can’t.

So today I’m going to talk about something that I make a goal to do every Sunday. I GYST (get your shit together,) and with a lack of anything else to expand on, I’m going to share my views, tips, and what I’ve learned about getting my life together. To GYST essentially means to take anywhere between 30 minutes, 2 hours, or an entire day to take care of yourself and everything you may have neglected in the recent past. For me, this is within the span of the past week. What this looks like in terms of my life is every Sunday I do my laundry, clean my room, organize my school and work schedule for the upcoming week, complete something creative, journal, and if there’s time, catch up on school work from the previous week. Now this doesn’t have to happen every week, because let’s face it, there is no right or wrong way to get your life together.

So, here are some of my tips on how to GYST:

Be consistent. Set aside some time each week, month, or whenever to clean or organize something in your life. It doesn’t have to be this big list of things, even the smallest organizing of your schedule can go a long way, but be consistent.
Set goals. Not everything has to get done in one day, but when you set a goal to do something consistently, eventually it becomes a habit.
Journal and make lists. Get everything you need to do out on paper or in a word document. When you write it all down you can prioritize what needs to get done and when. Some deadlines may be rigid while others are more relaxed, and it’s important to remember which is which.
Change what you can, and accept what you can’t. You can’t do everything in one day or less, it’s just not humanly possible. Clean, organize, and create what you can, and be accepting of what you can’t complete within your chosen timeframe.

I personally believe that with everything going on in our world today, this kind of thing is really important, or at least it is for me. I long for a simpler time, with coffee shops and friends with fireplaces and snowflakes, but this is not the reality. It is nonetheless our responsibility to ourselves to do what we can for our body, mind, and soul.

And with that, I’ll leave you with some photos from an up north thanksgiving with my girl ❤