Having had it quite easy the last two years or so, I've forgotten how hard life can be. If you don't work hard, you won't get paid. If you don't work harder, you won't get paid more in future. It's a no brainer. Even six and seven year olds know they won't get candy or extra special glittery pop-out stickers if they don't behave. But I still had to learn this in my undergraduate years - that I was no born genius and if I didn't study hard, I wouldn't do well at all. And sometimes, even if I studied hard, I still wouldn't do well!
It isn't always going to be as breezy as walking into a classroom looking prepared, concocting a lesson plan in my head that would hopefully occupy the time or popping in an 'educational' dvd when I couldn't be bothered.
I really do need to stop approaching life the way I've been approaching it, which is, dealing with things at the eleventh hour because most of the time it ends with me talking to myself into the wee hours of the morning as I scramble to put something together. Funny how I don't do that when it comes to planning for vacations - as it is, I'm thinking America with G in 2013. But I never sleep the night before a flight - I'm always scrambling to get my luggage packed!
I really need to start on my work RIGHT NOW (no blogs, no facebook, no emails ... okay, maybe just email checking first) because I'm so sure that the others have started and completed their assignments a month ago.
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