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Top 10 Habits That balance My School & Personal Life

Hi everyone! I hope all of you are feeling great at this time, and if you're somewhat stressed out and quite confused in school and your personal life, I think you're on the right page because I have a few tips that might help you. To introduce myself, I'm Airha Kate, and I'm a student scholar, whereas I'm a photojournalist at our university's official publication, juggling my academics plus having a duty as a vice president at our sub-org and also a low-key contributor to the local publication in our department. Multiple organisations is indeed a stressful commitment, but with all that, I can still manage to have a life outside of school, and here are the reasons why:

1. Doing tasks or homework right away

2. Interpreting responsibilities as an opportunity

3. Communicate effectively, saves your time

4. Track your progress

5. Reward yourself. (Not too much, though)

6. Eat with your friends, (sometimes they bring life hacks & tips at the table too!)

7. Preparing everything I need the day before

8. Be an hour early at every call time

9. Learning to say NO

10. Prioritizing health in all aspects

To further elaborate what I meant by those 10 habits I have also an explanations for that.

Doing tasks or homework right away

Because I'll do it anyway, so why make it longer? By doing the tasks given to me, I end up finishing them and having more time for myself. Besides, we'll never know what tomorrow will bring us, which could maybe hinder us from doing our designated tasks.

Interpreting responsibilities as an opportunity

I like to visualize the responsibilities that I shoulder as an opportunity for me to grow individually. Having to do things on my own made me feel independent and capable of doing things (especially since I'm an introvert), like socializing with other people involved in my assigned tasks. I always think that by joining school organisations, it will serve as an eye-opener to what real life outside the campus would be like.

Communicate effectively, saves your time

They are right about "communication is the key," but I also want to add that understanding is the padlock. We have to communicate well in order to be understood. We have to always confirm what we heard or saw. In this simple way, it will help us to be an effective person, whether we're at school or not. This helps me avoid repetitive tasks and stressful misunderstandings.

Track your progress

Taking notes and tracking your progress is a fun way to visualize your accomplishments. It will boost your motivation to do more things because you believe you can do things that you thought they are way to hard to accomplish.

Reward yourself. (Not too much, though)

Personally I love to go to a thrift store every end of stressful exams after that I'll make time to get on with my hobbies and eat my favourite treats, but I always made sure it's on a budget.

Eat with your friends, (sometimes they bring life hacks & tips at the table too!)

"No man is an island" and even as an introvert myself I agree with that quote. I like to spend my free times with my friends because they added value to my life. I learned a lot from them from tips, hacks, and advices. They made my college life manageable and fun!

Preparing everything I need the day before

Setting my things before I go to school is a valued habit. It makes me more efficient every morning knowing that I have all my things set and I can have extra time for preparing my lunch box. It also avoids forgetting the things I supposed to bring.

Be an hour early at every call time

I like to show up hour early because I don't want to stress myself on unavoidable traffic. I always calculate the time so that there's no time and resources that will go to waste. Because being late sometimes pushes me to pay extra for my fare because I have mo choice left but to have multiple rides just to arrived my destination.

Learning to say NO

Having to say no for the sake of yourself is healthcare. But you also have to keep in mind that by saying "No" it is reasonable and beyond your power to do things. Because the response "No" is no longer a negative word, it's a way of admitting to yourself that somethings are beyond your control and if it's too much of your workload more especially if you're working or in an organization that gives you stress and tend to compromise the job by accepting it and end up failing it instead because you have zero knowledge on what to do. Better yet, just say "No".

Prioritizing health in all aspects

This is quiet the hardest habit that I'm still trying to stay in track. Stress is unavoidable, but my response is controllable. So what I do, if I'm stressed out from school I want my room to be my safe haven and I like to do recreational things, play with my dog, and slightly doing schoolwork that needs to be done ASAP. But I don't want to push my self into limit.

After all what could really be rewarding is to still be yourself while doing the best you can in your life. So always take good care yourselves because after each day we always have another opportunity to be grateful.

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tacowblizzard · 2 years ago

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