Learn To Love Life

August 24, 2025

Day 5 of 90. Making progress quickly. I know, I know. I literally do not have any control over time or how many days it’s been. But, it still is crazy to me that it’s almost been 1 week. I’m excited and happy with how things have been going.

Today I got all my habits checked of again. The sense of accomplishment with that is just wonderful. I love the feeling that I am in control of my life and what I do. And by doing this challenge, I really am in charge of it all.

I hadn’t planned on exercising at all today, but I ended up going for a walk in the evening to let out some energy and also get the rest of my steps in.

I was also just generally very productive today. I washed, folded and put away my laundry. I know that doesn’t seem like much, but I don’t usually get that all done in one day. I spent a good amount of time on homework. I didn’t necessarily study, but I did do a small assignment for chem, which is the main class that I am making an effort in to stay ahead.

My roommates also started to decorate our common area. I mean we’ve been here for a week, we should make it look like we actually live there. There are some string lights put up and I ordered some throw pillows to add as well. I’m hoping it will be a cozy little place for us all to sit in.

I also read most of a book. I’m hoping to finish it tomorrow. I know people think that this is cringey, but I love the cute romance books. The ones that are just full of love and cute moments. Yes, a lot of them have sex in them, but that’s not at all why I read them, I promise! My least favorite thing about some romance books is that there are just shirtless men on the cover. Like I don’t want to look at that. I just want to read my cute little romance. Those books just always put me in a happy mood and make me want to giggle and kick my feet. I always can read them really quickly too, which helps me when I’m in a reading slump.

Tomorrow is the start of the second week of the semester. I feel more prepared for it now than I did even on Friday evening. I am going to put in my best effort and leave the rest alone. I can’t control ever aspect of my classes or my grades, but I can put in the effort that I have to give. If I don’t put in the effort, then I can’t complain about how I am doing in my classes.

On that note though, notice that I wrote “the effort that I have to give.” Sometimes you can’t give 100% effort to your school work because 10% of your effort is going to take care of yourself. You can’t give everything that you have and leave none of it for yourself because then you won’t have anywhere to go from there. You will be stuck in a rough cycle until burn out. And let’s be real. None of us want burn out and we are all scared that it will happen to us. And it might. But you just have to remember that it doesn’t matter as long as you get back up again.

Live Love Life, Yvie