Focus In!

Well, readers, this is it: the end of the semester.

Don’t panic, UNC-students, there is in fact two weeks left. But all of my hard finals are this week. Two tests, a presentation, and three papers. Gotta love it. I am relatively prepared, but that is only in comparison to the homework lockdown I was on this weekend. It was intense, but ironically enough, I didn’t get as much done as I wanted. I studied at the Library, wrote a paper in my room, even tried reading in the lobby, but I couldn’t get my focus “on”. It was rough, but then I thought about one of my favorite quotes by Anthony Robbins, an American entrepreneur and motivational speaker:

“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”

I think this really rings true in my life NOW. I have had a lack of focus in my life and I just need to put things in perspective, like my academics and my work in ResLife. I know that I can do it, it’s just putting one foot in front of the other and focusing on the things that really impact my life right now. I know that my academics are a current priority in my life, and it has taken me a while to get that ingrained in me over that last two weeks. Recently I’ve been more into being social and doing my job… its all about priorities these days, isn’t that what they all say? This next week will be all about how I can overcome the things that attract my focus and put it all back together again. But... that's what I say now, only time will tell if I really can do all that I set my mind to.