Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2018-09-04 05:41 pm
edenfalling) wrote2018-09-04 05:41 pm
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the power of semi-positive thinking!
So I'd been procrastinating on my first government class quiz because it's a timed quiz (only twenty minutes) and I was all "aaaaaah, but what if it's hard, and I'm not sure I remember the readings and videos that well, and even if it's open book is that enough time to look things up, aaaaaaaah" and just winding myself up tighter than a laundry-wringer.
And then today I told myself, "Liz, remember: half-assed is better than no-assed. There is no way you can miss all the answers, and even a 10% is better than a 0, so just suck it up, make sure you have your textbook right beside you, and open the quiz."
It was such a stupidly easy quiz. I was done in under six minutes. I got 100%.
...
This is the power of allowing yourself to half-ass stuff. Often, the stuff in question winds up not being nearly as hard as you've made it out to be and you do a really good job! And even if you don't, half-assed is still better than no-assed.
Nobody needs to be walking around no-assed. That's just tacky. ;)
And then today I told myself, "Liz, remember: half-assed is better than no-assed. There is no way you can miss all the answers, and even a 10% is better than a 0, so just suck it up, make sure you have your textbook right beside you, and open the quiz."
It was such a stupidly easy quiz. I was done in under six minutes. I got 100%.
...
This is the power of allowing yourself to half-ass stuff. Often, the stuff in question winds up not being nearly as hard as you've made it out to be and you do a really good job! And even if you don't, half-assed is still better than no-assed.
Nobody needs to be walking around no-assed. That's just tacky. ;)