Pick your rocks everyday...

Wow! I have not posted on this blog since August of 2015...Crazy, huh? Well a lot has happened since then. I have completed a PhD!!!!! Yes, now people call me Dr.....wow! I am still getting used to this new label.

My husband and I started raising my 5 year old great nephew in 2017 and  also started a new job as an assistant professor of nursing at my alma mater. I love teaching nursing students.

Yesterday, I held a "strategies for success" session for my students and I showed a video about putting important things first https://youtu.be/6_N_uvq41Pg and then I had a short discussion afterward. I asked the students what they got out of the video and some said to put the important things higher on the priority list and others said to prioritize. This is about what I expected from everyone. What I really wish is that everyone, including myself, really really established a priority list EVERY DAY!!

If you watched the video you saw that if you put the the big rocks in the jar first then the smaller pebbles and then the sand it will all fit into your day. Today, I am looking at my list of priorities and the things that I know I MUST get done are at the top of the list.
1. finish writing an exam
2. finish chapter reviews for a book
3. write my word count expectation in my own book that I am writing
4. prepare to teach a Sunday School lesson
5. take the little to the library as promised

Regardless of what your priorties are-put them first...determine these priorities by your goals. For example, if you have a goal of becoming a nurse and you are in nursing school, studying would be a priority, right? It was for me when I was in school. The good thing about nursing school is that it is only for a short time and then you have a lifetime to do all the amazing things you want to do in life.

Happy Prioritizing!!

I am here writing this blog post and this is not even on my list--I am already off track! Ugh! Has this happened to any of you? Probably. So how do we get better? Practice?

As with anything else that we want to get better at, yes, we practice...practice...practice. Practice prioritizing the rocks in your life this week and I will too. So, I better get back to those rocks, right now.

Before I go, I want to say, Thanks to all who read this blog and I will be making more posts now that I am finished with school and currently writing a book #homelesstoPhD. I want to share snippets of the book on here so be watching for new posts. Thanks a bunch...and remember--YOU ARE AWESOME!!

Best,
Nurse NicelyRN
#homelesstoPhD