Losing Yourself: Dive Into Your Mind

Do you ever space out? Daydream? Go off on tangents, when you talk to yourself? I'm sure you must, for almost everyone does. It is simply a normal action and reaction to our surroundings. Sometimes you can be really bored, or really upset, or even really happy. Whatever the case may be, zoning out transports us, for that one beautiful moment, to a place where we can escape the harshness of reality and transports us to a more perfect place. So when your mind does take you on a trip, don't stop the train before it gets there; just ride it for a while. Take that mini-escape, because everyone (yes, even you) can use even just a tiny vacation from life. It does a person some good to just forget about their worries for a while, and just focus on their hopes and dreams. Everyone needs to relax eventually, and losing yourself in a daydream or tangent is the quickest and easiest way to do that. Unlike a regular vacation, it doesn't take the effort required to plan a trip, book a flight, book a hotel, and to part with a lot of your well earned money; it just takes a minimal amount of effort of the brain to generate your wonderful, picturesque, and perfect getaway. As long as you are in the middle of a really important class or meeting, or driving, or doing anything where daydreaming might be life threatening, do it. And don't stop yourself if you begin spacing out without realizing it; if you're doing it without thinking, obviously you needed that mental break. Just enjoy the wonderful world you create inside while it lasts: it won't be there forever, and there will never be anything exactly like it in real life. Enjoy it while you can.

Getting Things Done: Goals

There never seems to be quite enough hours in the day. You wake up at a horribly early hour and spend half of your awake time at school or work. In any case, this leaves you with half or less than half of your day to do what you want, right? Wrong, because you have at least 20 more small to moderately large tasks to do. Some that you absolutely need to do, and others that can wait. But you want some "you time" so you push the things that can wait until the next day. This is a problem. You keep pushing back things you didn't need to do until you find that now, you need to do everything and you can't. Why? Because there really AREN'T enough hours in the day. So how do you deal with this problem? What can you do to "make" more time for you in the day? Obviously, you can't actually change how many hours you have in a day. I mean, you could sleep less to gain more hours, but this will cut your productivity and cause you even more problems. So what can you do? Set a goal. Set a goal for yourself each day. Something not to easy to do, but also that won't take an absolutely insane amount of effort on your part. Set a goal to perform one task right in the middle of your spectrum. Once you set that goal, stick to it. Make sure that it is the first thing you do when you get back from school or work. This will give you more time. See, by doing that intermediate task, you set yourself up to do all of your other tasks right afterwards. If you did an easy task first then you would'nt get your brain really into it. Once you finish you will either try a harder task, have a bit of effort necessary, and then put it off until another time, or you will feel like everything else will be just as easy, take a break, and waste all of your free time. If you do a large task first, you may feel exhilerated once you finish, but that will fade as you realize your power is drained, and then you will NEED to rest. Or, you may just say, "ugh, this is much too hard and so is everything else. I cannot do this," and you will still get nothing done. By doing an intermediate task first, you rev up your brain to get it warmed up, but don't wear it out from using it too much. And accomplishing such a task gives a little adrenaline boost which propels you through your next task, whivh gives an adrenaline boost which carries you through each successive task. In this way, you waste no time on moping because of your tasks at hand, nor are you distracted from them. You just do them. This change in your daily life saves you time, and actually lets you get things done.

The Beginning

In The Beginning, there was a girl who thought that cranberries were pretty cool. For one thing, they are much tastier than grapes when dehydrated. Their color is quite beautiful. And it is just a generally fun word to say: "cranberry."
So this girl used the word "cranberry" quite often. Probably much more often than a normal human being should, but she used it nonetheless.
It was this passion for cranberries that led her to name her blog "The Cranberry."
However, this blog will probably have less than 1% of it having anything to do with cranberries. In fact, this blog really has no central theme, except that it is simply the product of the inner workings of a brain; the brain of a girl who has a strange interest in cranberries.

Thus is the beginnig of what shall surely be a complete disarray of generally unrelated ideas, created only for the ability to talk to myself while making it seem as if I were in fact making a blog for others. However, for those who will be tuning in: please enjoy.

Steph :)