I'll do this tomorrow...

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
 Olin Miller

Oh, spring semester, what a beautiful time of year it is.  The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, the shows are going up...wait! MY SHOW IS IN TWO WEEKS!  time to get down to work... right after I check my facebook.  This scenario is probably familiar to most of us.  This is the point in our college career where we should be able to handle this situation by eliminating our distractions and focusing on what needs to be done. Sadly, this is not the case. With a lot of our shows coming up, we need to be as organized and focused as possible, so rather than giving you more things to look up and think about, we decided to give you a little positivity and helpful tips to get you through the next few weeks. If you seem to be entering panic mode and feel overwhelmed, take a deep breath and read through some of these helpful tips customized by us and brought to you by The Positivity Blog... and viewers like you.

Stop thinking. Start doing.

Thinking about your show isn't going to make it magically appear. Make yourself a list of everything that needs to be done and break it into smaller deadlines. This will allow you to feel accomplished at every deadline rather than hopelessly getting it finished in the nic of time.  

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
Eva Young

Don’t blow a task out of proportion.

The more you dwell on it, the more time you're taking away from actually producing it.

Just take the first step.

The first step is responding to this blog. The second step is GET OFF THE INTERNET AND START MAKIN' SOME ART!

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task”   

William James

 

 

Start with the hardest task of your day.

Whether this be getting out of bed or working on your research paper, take care of that first. Getting this out of the way leaves you with the rest of the day open without that one thing looming in the background. Just do it.

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie

Just make a decision. Any decision.
Should I frame it? Should I mount it? Luster or Matte? Small or large? What should my show title be? If you're like us and have been crippled by indecisiveness, just take it one step at a time. What needs done first? Thinking about everything at once won't do anything but stall decision making. Go with your first instinct. And if that's not the right one, then at least you have that part done. And when all else fails, ask a classmate. That's what we're here for.

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt

Finish it.
There is nothing more glorious.

*Here are a few more helpful tips on how to stop procrastination and some edumacated quotes!*

11 Practical Ways to Stop Procrastination

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

”Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
George Claude Lorimer