First and foremost the three vices that I want to work towards making virtues are my organization, precastanation, and also time management. I would like to quickly add the fact that I did not choose these vices. I thought that I would be a biased opinion and wouldn’t correctly choose the vices to work on and so asked my mom and she suggested these and I strongly agree. And so the journey for a better me begins.

     To start off with allow me to explain why I’m going to work on these vices, why I think I have them, and also what the effects of not being good at them have done to me.  My first vice: Organization. I have been described as many things, but organized has never been one of them, Organization has always been my kryptonite. My lack of organization originates way back in New York when I was a merly 8 or 9 years old. I was in third grade and school wasn’t too demanding. I went to that school for a while, but I never needed to keep everything where it had to be.  I believe this caused for me to stop trying and in turn not try to keep all my things where I needed them and started to become disorganized. Then when a few years later, now in Miami, I started to go to Archimedean Middle Conservatory and that school was harder for me.I had a hard time keeping track of when there were quizzes and when the homeworks were due. This started to hurt my grade, but not failing and so my bad habit was again re-enforced to keep being bad. After in life this started to hurt my grades more and more and also caused me to realize that I needed to fix it and so I tried my best and I improved very much, but there is still a higher level I think I can achieve regarding my organization. My plan to fix this vice is to try harder to keep everything where it should be and develop a system to know when everything is due and to know exactly what is due. Also I will be taking more time to try to organize everything as soon as possible, and not postpone. Going hand in hand with my next vice something I would like to work on is procrastination.

      Procrastination is the killer of many grades and the defeat of many of my fellow students and myself included. The biggest problem with people like me that procrastinate a lot is that we start to get good and sadly if I didn’t learn anything in school, I surly learned how to do 1 hour work in 5 hours and 5 hour work in an hour. But just like most things this is a gift and a curse, but mostly a really bad curse. Procrastination if you don’t know is “the action of delaying or postponing something.” according to ,every procrastinators best friend ,Google. My procrastination started to first really hurt me when I started to play soccer, I would keep saying I would do it later and then when later came, I again would  just say I’ll do it  later and more sooner than later I missed the deadline and had to turn it in later. My soccer practice was at 6:30 and  I would also play in the school team from 4 to 6 and then from 6:30 to 8. I would arrive home at around 9 and I was extremely tired and couldn’t complete the work, and so postponed it. The funny, not so funny thing is that I’m writing this on the last day that is allowed without being late and again because of soccer. My goal is to be able to stop this and do every assignment for this class and all the others at least 3 days before the due date. Procrastination isn’t only about doing the work when it’s due, but managing when to do what and also picking what to do first and in total managing your time. And again, hopefully for the last time, I did a poor job of managing and so I will most likely have to again have to stay up until midnight again.

      Time is the “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole” according to Merriam Webster. Now just try to imagine how hard it would be to be able to know when everything is and being able to manage exactly when to do everything. I know lame excuse, but this is what I would say if I had to justify my actions. I have an extremely hard time (Pun Intended) being able to manage all my things because I’m a very busy person and can’t always remember when everything is and when I can do it. This is not only an extremely hard skill for me, but it is one that I still haven’t improved much at all, unlike the others. I believe the key to being able to time manage is by writing my schedule down for the beginning atleast and learning when I can do my work and learning how everything works exactly. Also when ever I have a strange upcoming event and don’t know when I can react and complete my work needed. My goal is to again be able to know when I can do everything and work so that I can get the sleep I so badly need.

      In Conclusion, as Aristotle once said “we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions…a state of character results from the repetition of similar activities.” And so I have all of my actions and vices that I want to fix. And now for the hardest part “Less talking and more doing” And now the official start of my journey to a better me.

                                                               -Nicholas Oliveira