Do I Need a Schedule To Get Sh*t Done?

I'm doing this thing where I try not to be too hard on myself when it comes to my content; last night, after spending the day shooting, I remembered that Wednesday is blog post day and I was ready to start scrambling down my thoughts into a blog post at 11pm which would mean I would be up until the early hours to have a post scheduled for 9am. I decided not to do that and instead put more time and energy into creating this blog post in the morning. I forgot.

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So here we are, a few hours later and I'm finally putting together this blog post. Admittedly, I only actually remembered because I got a notification to post a photo on Instagram and the photo I had scheduled was one promoting this blog post... which hadn't yet been written! So you'll be seeing both my blog post and Instagram image later than I had planned.

Which led me to thinking how much I rely on a schedule to get sh*t done.

There's no other way around it, there's something about the pressure of having to create and schedule content for a certain day or time that makes me work my ass off to get it done. It's such a strange concept as I truly hate being in stressful situations and take this blog post scenario as an example, if I were being hard on myself I would have stayed up until 1 or 2am, however long it would take me to complete this, just to be certain that this would go live as planned.

I'm undecided as to whether it's a good or bad thing. I don't think putting yourself under stress is good but I also don't think it's good to allow yourself to get lazy. This is particularly important when freelancing because your work and how well you do is determined by you and you alone, your hard work and your dedication.

I find that I strive when under pressure and without it I get lazy.

I'd love to know what you think, do you strive under pressure? Or do you think there needs to be a healthy work-life balance which can just take time to achieve?

I couldn't bring this post to a close without talking about this dress though. I bought it in the Urban Outfitters sale and I'm so pleased that I did, it's a bit out of my comfort zone but I fell in love with the colours and polka dots too! I've styled it in a couple of different ways already and I'm really pleased I included it in my capsule wardrobe - it's been really great to wear for any dinners or evening events but equally as great to wear casually like I have here.

It's styled quite similarly on the Urban Outfitters website so I really wanted to re-create the look myself by layering a roll neck underneath. It screams 70's but I kind of like that, and it means I can wear this dress whilst it's still cold outside. Personally, I wouldn't pair a midi dress with tights so I have the whole bare legs thing going on but with some ankle boots I think it's the perfect pairing.

Do let me know your thoughts below!

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Midi wrap dress - Urban Outfitters

Grey roll neck - New Look

Ankle boots - (c/o) Public Desire

[Photos taken by Maria]