No one ever said it was going to be easy being an adult, we may not have believed it when we heard it growing up but once responsibilities and commitments hits us it hits us hard.
Some of us make it through adulthood unscathed but after a year after graduation it feels like
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As of now I cannot claim to say that I’ve nailed this whole adult thing down but what I can say is that I have uncovered a few ways on we can adult decently enough to convince others around us that we too are responsible functioning working adult.
1. Learn to prioritise
With being adult comes responsibilities and a whole lot of doing things we don't necessarily want to do but have to do.
Sometimes when the pressure gets to be too much, I throw my hands in the air say that
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But then after I crawl out of my denial , I realised most of the commitments and things that are bogging me down are also due to my own choices and the way I prioritise things.
If you're anything like me then here are three handy questions you can ask yourself when needing to commit to something or when you are considering saying yes to something you don't necessarily want to do.
1. On a scale of one – ten how much energy and time will I have to put in?
2. How will this event benefit me in the long run?
3. If I had to place this benefit on a one – ten scale where would I place it?
2. Budget in the beginning of the month
Another thing that many people struggle at being an adult are their finances. Many people end up with bad debt every month instead of good debt. Good debt is things like paying for property or having a good healthy investment. Bad debt are things like having overdue credit card debts on the newest designer dress.
One step you could take in making sure you that you don’t have too much month at the end of your money is to allocate your money according to how much you earn. Start allocating big chunks of your money to things that matters most like rent, food and transportation. Next comes investment, savings, and insurance and when you have left over from all those allocation then and only then can you decide on which luxury item you’d like to get.
3. Have two 'responsibilities board'
As an adult we all have responsibilities that we need to get done (daily, weekly, monthly and sometimes even yearly). For those of us who are always forgetting to take out the trash or to pay our bills, here’s one way to make sure you get things done.
1. Prepare two boards (it could be a white board, it could be a cork board, it could even be a piece of paper)
2. Label one ‘To Do’ and the other ‘Done’
3. Get sticky notes and pens.
4. Divide the boards into 7 parts and label them Monday – Sunday
5. On every Sunday night ,write down all the responsibilities that you need to get down for the week and stick them onto the ‘To Do’ board
6. As the week passes and you’ve slowly completed the tasks on the ‘To Do’ board, transfer the post it notes onto the ‘done’ board
4. Choose to be the bigger person
Sometimes we cannot avoid them, the back stabbers, the irritating specimens and the big babbies. They’re usually lone wolves and they can smell your weakness. There they sit in their corner gleefully stirring the pot, fanning the fire just waiting for you to explode.
The standard advice would be to simply calm yourself down and choose to be the bigger person. But that simply just wouldn’t do, I do advice that you do choose to be the bigger person but I wouldn’t want you to fester in your misery which is neither healthy nor possible.
Instead, you should find outlets to let it out in a safe and responsible manner. Try talking your problems out with your friends, trouble shoot it together. You could also take up contact sports to let out your frustrations properly or choose to meditate as a calmer route.
If you could identify with this comment below or better yet share it with them big babies who needs to listen up and adult better.
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