Happy New Year, all! January 1, 2014. I hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating with your loved ones. Like most people, I love the feeling of beginning a new year and starting a new chapter. Of course with a new year comes change and for me, with change comes anxiety. I am a creature of habit and a person who loves the familiar. My big resolution this year is to embrace change better. To quote someone famous whose name I cannot recall, "Change is the only constant in life." I am also resolving to drink more water and hopefully (knock on wood) do some serious stomach toning in the new year. I ate my weight in food over the holidays so Lord knows I need some of that!
By signing up for this NaBloPoMo I hope to achieve another big resolution to get my blog up and rolling this year! It was great to find a community of fellow bloggers in BlogHer that will inspire my writing.
To answer the first prompt of the month, I do work well under pressure in some cases. Writing is one of those cases. In college, I was the chick who stayed up all night in the 24 hour computer lab working on her research paper assigned at the beginning of the semester. I fueled my body with bottles of Coca-Cola and junk food. (Not fitting for my stomach toning resolution!) Having a deadline for my writing motivated me and often times resulted in my best work which is what I hope will happen here! My strategy of procrastinating and waiting until the last week/few days before a deadline worked wonders for most of my liberal arts courses in college. This strategy did not work, however, with my more challenging subjects such as Calculus and Chemistry where I needed weeks of review to manage even a B on the test!
So, in sum, the pressure cooker works well when I am completing assignments that I enjoy or excel in. In other areas, not so much. So, fellow bloggers bring on the pressure!!
By signing up for this NaBloPoMo I hope to achieve another big resolution to get my blog up and rolling this year! It was great to find a community of fellow bloggers in BlogHer that will inspire my writing.
To answer the first prompt of the month, I do work well under pressure in some cases. Writing is one of those cases. In college, I was the chick who stayed up all night in the 24 hour computer lab working on her research paper assigned at the beginning of the semester. I fueled my body with bottles of Coca-Cola and junk food. (Not fitting for my stomach toning resolution!) Having a deadline for my writing motivated me and often times resulted in my best work which is what I hope will happen here! My strategy of procrastinating and waiting until the last week/few days before a deadline worked wonders for most of my liberal arts courses in college. This strategy did not work, however, with my more challenging subjects such as Calculus and Chemistry where I needed weeks of review to manage even a B on the test!
So, in sum, the pressure cooker works well when I am completing assignments that I enjoy or excel in. In other areas, not so much. So, fellow bloggers bring on the pressure!!
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