What I need 2 do, 2 do what I want!!

 Problem solving strategies… hmmm I wish I would have known about any one of these strategies a couple of years ago. Anyone of the strategies helped tremendously as long as you’re really committed to them. I found that the best strategy for me was to use the IS VS. WANTS  technique. I mapped out everything that I needed to do first for last week then right after that the desires came. As you can probably imagine I had quit a few ideas for this column but I tried to leave the little desires out that don’t really cause a big problem for me.                   

                                                               

This strategy helps with every situation to, for example for me I don’t like eating at the well-known dining hall named Earnie Davis. I’m not going to say all the food they have in there is terrible but it’s VERY close. Only reason why I even go is because it’s free and I have a massive hunger after I get done working out so it makes since to go there. On days when I know there’s no way I’d be able to stomach that food down I go back home and order Chinese or pizza and wings. In doing this I waist a lot of money and have to keep calling my mother to give me more; she gets mad at me now. The solution I came up with using the IS VS. WANTS problem solving strategy was to just go to a different dining hall. This way I save a lot of money, get different food that’s a little better, and I don’t have to force down anymore dry cheese burgers

Not only does this strategy help with getting a better meal and saving some money but it also helps with school work and time management.  I like going out on Thursdays with my teammates but I have two classes on Friday the first one starting at 8:25, so if I’m till 3 or 4 in the morning I would either be really tired in class, show up late, or completely miss it. I got my act together soon I started just telling my friends to just come to my apartment to hang out and play video games or something. I do still go out every blue moon on Thursdays but only when I know for sure that I have an A in the class