Organizational tips I

As promised, here's the first part of my organizational tips, what I have done up until now.

Here's my old to-do notebook:

It was so big I could never carry it with me! It either wouldn't fit in my bag or it was too heavy and I preferred to leave it at home and to be honest there are only two to-do lists written down that I actually didn't follow. As you can see, inside it there were actually two notebooks so I always misplaced notes.

Let's move on to the future:

I had actually bought this cute notebook a while ago, but never used it because I didn't want to ruin it (another quirky thing due to my OCD :P). The cover is so attractive and colorful I think I will be determined to use it. The size is normal, it's A5 and it's thinner so I can actually fit it in my purse or in whatever I take with me to college.

An interesting thing about it is that it is color coordinated:

so I can actually arange my to-do lists by importance or however inspiration will strike me.

Another thing that I have applied is using storage boxes. A semester ended so I had a lot of courses that were spread all over my floor. Considering that I might need to read them again, I needed them to be somewhere handy but definetly not in my way. So I got these 3 colorful boxes that fit perfectly in the bottom of my desk. This suits me so well because not only that I now have storage boxes, but I never used that part of my desk so it always got filled with junk.

I hope that this gave you some good ideas on how to organize your room, your desk, your life. Promise I will continue with more organizational tips, if you have an idea that you'd like to share, drop me a comment or e-mail me :)

Coming soon: Organizational tips

So it's my final exam in college (Microeconomics, if anybody's curious :P) and it's been so hard to study because there was a complete lack of order in my room - which is my study place - and in my courses. I went to almost all the courses but I kept losing the sheets of paper and I ended up in studying from the copies that I made from other people, this being a huge problem, mostly for visual learners like me.

After this exam, I'm going to reorganize my room, maybe even redecorate it and get some stuff to organize my courses better so I don't lose them anymore. I'm going to put this in images so you guys can get an idea of what you can do to improve your study flow. Yes, being organized does help do this, because your brain can assimilate much better structured information, you can remember something much easier or even without any effort.

So, coming soon: Organizational tips!

PS. Am I the only one who keeps losing what she wrote in class?!

My Origami boredom solution

Here's what I did:

after posting the previous blog entry. Heh, it might not be the best, but I guess that's why they call it improving! The cute part is that if you pull on its tail, its wings flap.  If you want to see how to do it in images, I'd be happy to do it for you, just leave me a comment or send me an e-mail on glittercandyxoxo[at]gmail[dot]com . 

Also, I would love to see what you guys did after my previous posting, even if you drew a stick man, I'm really curious to see.

What to do when you're bored and hobbies

Probably the most motivating thing that I ever heard about boredom is "Only stupid people get bored". I read that on a forum. I don't think it's offensive, I think it kinda states the truth. Well, obviously, there's procrastination. You need to prove that you're just procrastinating ;)

Keeping yourself entertained seems to be pretty hard, you can play games, try and read, watch TV... Let's face it, when you're not in the mood for this you just aren't. It's like trying to do something will be a complete waste or when you're actually doing it your mind goes completely blank. I got to the conclusion that boredom isn't just not having anything fun to do, but more a state of mind.

I think it's the expression of having something bottled up inside you that you need to do and you aren't doing it because of procrastination, for example, art. You know you're talented but you haven't really practiced, people told you that you have a good voice but you haven't much cared, just sang under the shower, liked photography but you just thought you have a crappy camera and never got around to chasing good shots. Or you might be a computer geek, love programming but been too lazy to actually study a programming language. And wow! maybe you wanted to study Japanese, German, Italian but you just learned a few common words and gave it up.

Yeah, that's pretty much what most of us do. How can you fix it? From my experience, you can't just go at it and do it because you will just get tired of it fast and get back to that state, you need to make yourself stick to a schedule, to a goal (goal sounds so pompous, like writing something on a post it and putting it on your wall, no, just think of it more like having to complete something).

Let's face it, hobbies are called hobbies for a reason. Find the glitter and the color in your life.

I should go and play around with origami now... :)