concentration

College just takes up so much time. How in the world am I supposed to get everything done? Will I have enough time to do my homework? My blogs? My essays? My music? What about my personal life? Will I be able to maintain a job? All these questions have plagued my mind ever since I started college here just a few months ago. Then I realized that the answer is simple, that I have plenty of time to do these things, but I'm not spending my time wisely. I need to concentrate on what I'm doing to ensure that every second of my time will be put to good use, making me more productive, successful, and happy.
For those of us who are living in a dorm it is incredibly difficult for us to find a consistent time to sit down, undistracted and dig into everything that sits atop our agenda. Sometimes our roommate has company, and they're just hacking away at the latest video game screaming and shouting till midnight. Sometimes there's just too many things we want to get done on our own. There's too many games to play, too many stories to read, too much music to listen to, and way too many statuses to gossip on. All these things fight to pull our minds out of the moment. They scream for our attention, when it's up to us to make sure that we can stay on task.
I've got two big distractions that are standing in the way of my academic progress right now, the biggest one is going to be pretty predictable to those of who have been reading my blogs. It's music. Listening, playing, writing, all of it, music just gets too distracting sometimes. I understand I need to be doing my work, but sometimes my music just doesn't allow me to concentrate. I enjoy it too much and it quickly takes my attention over my work. I just need to know when to unplug the headphones and get working!
The second big distraction is my Gameboy, yes, a Gameboy. I won't even try to justify that right now, but at the end of a long day it's just too terribly easy to sit down and vegetate with my Pokemon going. It's relaxing to disengage your mind and not worry about the troubles of the day, but this is where I need to man up, and relating to a previous post, become a playmaker!