Tommy Collison

They overcharge for crummy service, sure, but whoever works in their marketing department deserves a hat tip.

Make the Most of Now

It’s corny

and cheesy

but has a real meaning to it that can and should be adopted.

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I have many mantras, creeds and sayings, words to live by, as it were, but my favourite, and the one I’d campaign to enter public consciousness would be:

The best time to do anything is NOW

Again, corntastic.

Think about it. The greatest threat facing mankind today isn’t consumerism, it isn’t the absolute state of the Irish Government (close second), it’s not even the whole US-Korea thing they’ve got going. It’s procrastination.

My drama teacher had a saying that if you pronounced the small words right, the bigger, more difficult words (‘linoleum’, for example) would take care of themselves. Imagine a theatrical version of ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’.

Anyway, correlate that with procrastination. If we, as people, procrastinate regularly, then that will have larger repercussions. However, if we can go about our lives without putting everything off to the future, it won’t be so hard to do it on a larger scale.

Example: I took my First Year Christmas and Summer Exams seriously enough. Despite it being only first year, I wanted to do well, not just for personal pride, but also as practice. We’re never taught how to study, so if we prance through first and second year, chances are you’ll be ill-prepared for the Junior Cert.

Despite a few friends going ‘I don’t know why you bother, it’s only first year!’, I ignored them. The only way to learn a new drum beat is to keep going over it again and again, so it makes sense that the only way to be good at exams (not being freaked, getting panic attacks, etc.) is by practicing. If we treat first and second year exams as ‘nothing’, how are we meant to get in gear for the real exams?

Better to get into a good habit now, surely?