7 Things for 7 Days

I recently read a blog post by Louise from the blog sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.com titled '7 things for 7 days' in which she set herself a list of seven realistically achievable goals for the week. I thought this was a great idea and great way of motivating yourself to achieve more, so I've decided to do the same. I already do set my goals which I write in my diary of things I need to do each day, but they don't always get done so maybe this might help keep track of things. Plus its more realistic to have a list of goals for the week rather than a day as there may be a day when your not able to get things done. Anyway, here's my list for the week:

• Revise - I have a Maths exam on Thursday and a Biology exam on Friday (my last 2 exams!) and so I need to use the days up until then to revise.
• Clean - my make-up brushes, the bathroom sink.
• Organise - after my last exam, oraganise and file all my college work.
• Blog - add at least one new post to each of my blogs.
• Exercise - starting after my last exam, go out for a walk everyday to get out the house, get some excersise and maybe take some photos too.
• Read - finish reading the book I've started (Bridget Jones's Diary)
• Garden - make a start on the garden by clearing all the paths.

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At least one book a month!

I love reading, always have. I remember starting to read the Harry Potter series about the time when I was in year 4 at primary school. I used to read a lot, and it was a great thing to do with all the time spent on the bus to and from college. Although last year coming up to my exams, when I was supposed to be revising I decided I was spending too much time reading and stopped reading hoping I would spend more time revising. After that I couldn't get back into reading, and haven't read much for almost a year. So I would definitely love to read more! And I don't really like to set this as a goal, as it's something I wish to enjoy and not something I feel I have to do. But I have started reading more lately, and hopefully plan on writing reviews on the books I've read.

I liked this picture because as it's spring time there's a lot of daffodils around at the moment, fields and fields of them in Cornwall, and when the weathers nice I also like to read outside in the sunshine.

Books I have read recently: The Choice, Stolen, Scarred, Entangled.

I boiled an egg!

Something so simple, but something I had never done! Well I have now. Made a soft boiled and hard boiled egg and will make a lot more as egg sandwiches are soo good!

Sleep is much needed!

I was going to put up a post last night. I'd planned to after dinner but instead I just crashed out on the sofa. Not good.

I have such long days at college and so little sleep that I get extremely tired sometimes (well, most of the time). To the point where I can't even keep my eyes open, hence sleeping on the bus and constant yawning during classes. So this is the reason for my goal of getting 8 hours of sleep a night (it would make an improvement on the current 6 hours I'm getting!)
I also have at least 3 hours traveling a day, which although I'm just sat on a bus the whole time is actually very tiring. Leave the house at 7 in the morning and don't get home until gone 6, so I hardly have any time outside college to get anything done. I get so stressed out sometimes about how little time I have to get anything done, and how tired I know I'll be when I don't get to sleep til really late.
So hopefully getting some more sleep will help this!

Talking to my brother...

One of my goals was to talk to my brother at least once a week. This is because I have recently moved out of home, and so I'm not always there for him like I was to talk to etc. So if I call him at least once a week that will be my way of still being there for him.
I think I can say that this one I've completed. I started phoning regularly, but my brother said: "I can't be bothered to hold the phone when you call me."...I know, so lazy right! So he suggested using skype, so now we've been talking on skype almost every night. It's a great way of keeping in touch as well as being able to see each other. Also, he uses the computer ALOT, and using skype he can show me what he's up to (show me his screen).

So, Skype was my solution to this goal, keeping in contact with my brother. I'd highly recommend trying out Skype for anyone who wants to keep in contact with friends/family who don't live close by.

First blog post...

Well, basically I just decided to start this blog as I have created a list of goals that I wish to achieve and wanted a way to keep track of things for myself and share my experiences with others. I made this list a couple of weeks ago and so have started to work on a few of them. Ideally I would like to put up a blog post everyday, either showing how I've achieved something on the list of explaining why I want to do something that's on the list. Or just to share something.