The pile of clothes on the chair in your room. The squeaky clean gym shoes toward the back of the closet, much cleaner than the back seat of your car filled with receipts and empty water bottles. The all-nighters cramming in the library and the diet you've been talking about starting since the freshman fifteen.

You know what I'm talking about.

You have a chronic case of the I'll-start-tomorrow's. Don't worry, you're not alone. Personally, my philosophy is that every extra pair of socks I steal from my brothers is another day I can go without doing laundry. Also, I'm typing this looking at the bag of things I haven't unpacked from winter break. It's normal to constantly be caught up in the chaos of what we're doing and what we consider essential, but at some point, we have to stop and make things happen now before everything turns into a plan for tomorrow.

Someone once told me there is no time more powerful than the present. You can dwell on the past or plan the future, but you can only act on right here, right now. In reality, what you plan is irrelevant in comparison to the actions you take, because the actions you decide to take (or not to take) will determine where you end up. Not what you wrote down in your overly-decorated, borderline unusable planner. So act now.

Take advantage of this underrated thing we call free will and put your intentions to use, and not just by cleaning your room. Share your innovative thoughts and ideas and use them to do all the things you want to do when you "grow up" or "have free time."

Then, pay attention to how you feel when you actually do something instead of intending to do something.

For now, call your grandmother. Change your sheets. Take your Aeropostale shirts to Goodwill. Change your world in the little ways you can today and take in the empowering feeling of making things happen as they add up. I promise, you can find another way to live life on the edge than seeing how long you can drive with your gas tank on empty.