So last week my mom started this thing called the “phone project” which has been an ongoing argument since the idea posed into her head. In all truth, I’m a huge procrastinator about almost everything, especially with school. Honestly who has time to lolly-gag and watch tv and play on there phone. Ummm… well since corona break… I do. Now that I’m home every minute of the day, here I am. “I’ll do it later”, “get around to it next week”. Well, in my mom’s head this apparently has happened too many times so she decided that not only can’t I only see the outside world ( EVERYBODY MUST STAY HOME) but she is done with me being lazy like literally every other teenager I know.

That’s when we started the phone project. I basically have to accomplish and complete one of two tasks of the day to get my phone. At first I didn’t mind it, and just went along with it because it was better than getting in an argument and well since were home all day… I really didn’t want to be quarantined to just my room. I went along with the plan for a few days, the problems with this for me is that I one day I got my phone back at 4 pm. I was my grandpa’s birthday and he was VERY, to say the least butt- sore that his favorite granddaughter did not call him to say “Happy Birthday’’. Because I am such a procrastinator I would put off by one or two tasks (that were easily at least an hour or two projects) off . The second problem was once I got my phone I was uninterested in doing literally anything else that day. I would stay up late texting friends and then wake up around 10 am and start the day off and my next task a little late. It really wasn’t working for me.

So me and my mom talked and came up with a compromise, which involved planing my day out with scheduled phone breaks. Now even though this was my idea I feel like It’s the hardest and I get the least amount of work done even though I’m scheduled to do a task ( like edit a youtube video or do health homework). It is just harder for me to focus for that long at a time.

As of yesterday It was announced that I have a kind of online school, more of a schedule for classes where I would be either be doing assignments via Zoom or FaceTime calls with the class. So as of next week I don’t get my phone during “school hours” of online classes. But while I do my extracurricular actives I can get my phone on specific times. Who know’s if the newest schedule is going to work for me, but I have time to trying things out so might as well.