This week has been a fairly busy one for me. It was filled with homework, errands, and tons of stress, something I thought I finally had under control.
Stress is funny. Some people do their best work under pressure while others falter. I'm somewhere in the middle, or at least, I would like to think I am. I say this because while I certainly don't do my best work, I always seem to push myself to do better when I am under stress. Usually it starts off with me breaking down after thinking about all the things that need to be done, but powering through them one step at a time knowing that there will be something constantly bothering me until I finish.
I'm a perfectionist, so I always like doing things correctly and completing tasks, but this also causes me to procrastinate a lot, because I can't face the prospect that maybe what I'm doing is wrong. I think that most of my stress stems from this very problem. I wish I could just stop worrying about things so much, but I think it's so far ingrained in me that I can't not be constantly on my toes. This could, of course, be a good thing, but sometimes it prohibits you from relaxing and enjoying yourself. I think the main thing is not letting the stress keep you from living your life.
I'm not really in the best position to give advice and really if I did it would be something super cliched. To be honest this was more of a journal entry where I organized my thoughts, so I can reboot my mind and tell myself that everything will be okay even if I'm not great at certain things. I think this week truly proved that maybe worrying about a thousand things at once is not the best idea, and I need to trust my instincts and not second guess myself so much.
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