Wellness University

Welcome, friends! My name is Angie and I’m a senior Music Education student that is currently transitioning career paths to Esports and Social Media Management. With my experience of 14 to 16-hour days as a commuter student in a major where 19 credits = 10+ classes, I want to help those who are anxious and easily overwhelmed during their first years of adulthood. Let’s dive into wellness and how we can thrive during our college years.

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october 6 2022

I’m prepping for medical school interviews and oddly, it’s more difficult than I thought …

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study sessions on wednesdays feel almost relaxing 🎞️

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Journaling for Students

Have you ever wanted to expel the hundreds of thoughts running through your mind? Or how about a place to note down your upcoming assignments so you can stop turning them in late?

Instead of speaking out loud to someone, journaling can be a different way to brain dump. 

Journaling is helpful for diminishing feelings of stress and anxiety because it’s a focused activity. When you are focused on a task, your brain tends to center in on that task and forget everything else. Especially when writing.

But journaling isn’t only used for brain dumping. It can also be used to track your habits and schedule activities. So, let’s dive into journaling and how we can use it as a tool for our organization and mental health. 

How to Journal Mental Health

As I mentioned before, writing is a task that requires focus. If you find yourself stressed, doing something like a puzzle or playing a video game could help you calm down.

The main difference between those activities and journaling is that when you journal, you can address the feelings that are bothering you. There are two main methods of journaling:

1. Intentionally writing about a specific topic or prompt 

2. Writing whatever comes to mind

These are the most popular ways to journal for mental health. I’d recommend practicing each of them and seeing which one fits your situation best. And you don’t have to stick to just one way of journaling. In fact, it might help you focus more when you try a new format every few weeks. Some formats are more beneficial depending on your situation.

Let me make it clear - there is no set way to journal. That’s something you have to figure out yourself. You can purchase a plain journal with lined pages to write or even a journal with blank pages to draw. But here are a few prompts you can follow if you want to journal for your mental health:

- What is making you anxious? Is it logical to feel this way?

- Write to a version of your past self. What would you tell them now?

- Think of something that worried you in the past. How was it resolved? Are you still worried about it now? And if so, has it gotten any better?

- Write about everything that you’re grateful for. When writing, don’t rush. Stay on a topic as long as you want and try to actually “feel” the gratitude. 

How to Journal for Organization

Many students use a planner or an agenda to write in their assignments and homework. Agendas are a useful tool because they’re usually in a calendar format, which can be helpful for visual learners. But there’s a difference between writing due dates in an agenda and actually planning on how to accomplish those tasks.

If you’ve ever frantically scrambled through your agenda to find that you don’t have the assignment that was supposed to be turned in, then I recommend using a journal to time block your day. If you’ve never heard of time blocking, it really isn’t anything complicated.

But it changed my life.

Seeing my day mapped out in the morning soothed my running thoughts. In a way, I became my own personal assistant because I knew exactly what events or tasks were planned for the day.

Time blocking is a system that dictates your tasks at each hour of the day. Before you time block, you should have a to-do list so you know what you have to accomplish that day. Here’s how to do it: 

1. On the left side of your page, write in each individual hour starting from when you wake up to when you go to sleep

2. Fill in the tasks you’re doing that day at their specified times. Start with classes or other activities that happen at times you can’t control

3. Use your to-do list to fill in the rest of the day

When filling out the rest of your day, try using your knowledge of your own habits. Are you more productive in the evening, afternoon, or morning? If you have the option, write in your toughest tasks during those productive times. This will make you life a lot easier and help you enjoy checking off your to-do list. 

How to Track your Habits with Journaling

If you’re interested in tracking your habits, you should invest in a bullet journal. Bullet journal pages are formatted with a grid instead of being lined. This allows you to draw different templates and be as creative as you want with them. 

This is why they’re so wonderful for tracking personal patterns.

Students who tend to use different colored highlighters, pens, and stickers will find success with bullet journaling. This is because most habit trackers tend to have boxes to fill in with a color once you’ve completed the task. For example, let’s say you’re tracking each day you go to the gym. In your bullet journal, use the grid paper to draw the shape of the month’s calendar with boxes. After going to the gym, fill in the box with a highlighter of your choice.

There are plenty of YouTube videos on different templates you can do and how to set up your journal for each month. Here are a few ideas of what you can track in your bullet journal:

- How much sleep you’re getting every night

- Daily goals 

- Long-term goals 

- Studying for exams

Journaling as a Student

Journaling is a habit that I've built over five years. There were some semesters where I’d set up a month of trackers in my bullet journal, and I’d come back three months later to unused, dusty pages. Even if you’re not consistent with journaling, that isn’t a reason not to do it. 

Like I mentioned before, the act of journaling is a focused activity. Make sure that you allot a specific amount of time for your journaling sessions. This will make it feel like a personal routine. 

So, go grab your highlighters and favorite pen. It’s time to soothe your mind and stay ahead of your classes!

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Creating a Morning Routine

Have you ever jumped at the sound of your alarm clock ringing unexpectedly from someone else’s smartphone? Before you know it, all the stresses of your morning flood your thoughts and you’re transported back to 6 a.m. 

Let’s be honest here- when you think of a typical morning in your life, is it something you look forward to?

Most students dread waking up early for various reasons such as not getting enough sleep the night before. But these students all share something in common: a lack of a morning routine.

Morning routines are essential to starting your day on a positive note. They are also an act of self care because morning routines exist to help you reach your daily goals and improve your mood. 

The first hour you spend awake is the most important part of your day. It can shape how the rest of your day turns out. So let’s talk about why you should organize a regular morning routine for yourself and how it can help you reach your daily goals. 

Creating a Morning Routine

You don’t have to be a morning person to have a morning routine and enjoy it. When creating your morning routine, there are a few components you should include:

- Exposure to light

- Movement

- Shower

- Food

Numerous research papers and studies have been done to show why these aspects of your routine are beneficial. But if you don’t want to add to your list of readings for the week, I’ll break down the important stuff:

- Exposure to direct sunlight is the best way to reset your circadian rhythm (your awake/asleep schedule) - Movement promotes the flow of endorphins throughout your body which regulate your mood - Taking a shower should be self-explanatory… but I’m going to go into this in the next section - Eating a balanced breakfast in the morning gives you energy to go about your day

Here’s what you need to figure out before making your morning routine:

- What do I want to accomplish before leaving my house/apartment/dorm?

- What is a reasonable time to wake up so I’m getting enough sleep?

It’s also important to note your personal characteristics in the morning. For me, I tend to move slower in the morning because I’m tired. This means that I have to wake up a bit earlier than most people to leave on time. Here’s an example of my morning routine:

5:25 a.m. – Wake up, feed pets, take dog outside

5:40 a.m. – Walk on treadmill 

5:50 a.m. – Shower 

6:05 a.m. – Get dressed & do makeup

6:30 a.m. – Dry hair

6:40 a.m. – Make breakfast & eat

6:55 a.m. – Pack lunch & snacks for the day, start car (during colder months)

7:00 a.m. – Take vitamins, leave latest 7:05 a.m.

When you have your morning routine written down, be sure to follow it for a few days and see if it’s doable and enjoyable. Remember, the whole point of a morning routine is to help you and make you look forward to your day. If you don’t like it, change something and try again.

Extra Tips

I’d like to talk about some specific tips you can apply to your morning routine to enhance its effectiveness. First, let’s talk about your shower. 

Research suggests that taking cold showers could help regulate your stress levels. 

But if we’re being honest, the last thing I want to do is step into a cold shower before 6 a.m. Instead, I take the majority of my shower in warm water and then expose myself to cold water for about a minute. I’ve personally seen an improvement in my anxiety and stress using this method. This is because cold water spikes your cortisol (stress hormone). After the spike, your cortisol slowly lowers throughout the rest of your day. 

Next, I want to discuss movement. If you’re an active person or an athlete, doing your entire workout routine in the morning could be great. There’s less people in the gym during the early morning hours. Plus, once you’re done with your routine in the morning, you’ll be free from it for the rest of the day. 

The only con to a full morning workout is that you’ll probably have to wake up a lot earlier. And again, you have to be realistic. Are you able to wake up at 4:30 a.m. and have the mental strength and energy for leg day? 

If the answer is no, then you have some choices in terms of movement. Running, walking, Pilates, and yoga are all low-impact exercises for those early morning hours. Going to the gym isn’t necessary to perform these exercises, either. 

Finally, I’m going to touch on your exposure to light. The best exposure is direct sunlight. But based on the time you wake up and what season it is, you might wake up while the moon is the only light in the sky. If this is the case, you can purchase a sunrise alarm clock or a sunlight lamp. But the lights you already have in your house are fine. 

Following your Routine

Once you’ve decided your morning routine, it’s time to follow it consistently. The key is – 

Rely on discipline, not motivation.

You won’t always be motivated to wake up, get sunlight, exercise, shower, and do countless other things before sitting in your 3-hour lecture. It can be really tempting to “sleep in” once you’ve set your routine and you know you don’t have to leave until 30 minutes before your class. 

But your discipline will carry you through those tough days.

Discipline is following the rules you set for yourself. In simple terms, this means that you must do this for yourself. 

Do it for your benefit. 

Do it because you love yourself. 

In this life, you need to become your most dependable person. Staying consistent in your routines is where that starts. 

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Meal Prepping 101

Taking maximum credit loads, commuting, and working a part-time job can make eating a balanced diet seem impossible.

I mean, how many more responsibilities do you need?

But that’s the thing - eating a nutritious diet is the foundation to your success. It can give you the energy to study for exams and stay awake during three-hour seminars. And it may even grant you better grades.

Also, eating a balanced diet may improve your immune system, which results in fewer absences.

Yes, you’re not the only one snoozing in three-hour seminars. 

One way to guarantee that you’re eating nutrient-dense and filling meals is to practice meal prepping. Meal prepping is cooking multiple servings of a meal in a single day. For instance, you can make your lunches for Monday through Friday by cooking in bulk on Sunday. All you have to do is pop it in Tupperware and grab it before you go out the door.

Click here to see some examples of lunches that are easy to meal prep.

For most college students, this can seem like a daunting task.

“Where will I find the time to grocery shop?”

“What should I cook?”

“HOW do I cook?”

I’m here to reassure you that meal prepping is not as hard as it seems. Throughout my college career, I've been a commuter student who has taken maximum credit loads for every semester.

Meal prepping was the secret to staying organized and making the little time I had count.

There’s nothing like the reassurance of having your lunch ready and prepped next to you at all times. And- you’re in full control of what you are eating because we all know how easy stress eating is. Not to mention how hard it is to stop grabbing for the nearest salty snack.

If you’re unsure of how to begin meal prepping, let’s dive into how you can take care of your body by preparing your meals for the week! 

Basic Nutrition

The first step to meal prepping is deciding what you want to eat. I’m not a certified nutritionist, but I do have experience in eating for body function and performance since I am an athlete. These meal plans tend to be nutrient-dense and focused on eating whole foods.

What do I mean by whole foods? These are foods that usually don’t have a gigantic ingredient list listed on their packages. These include fruits, veggies, meat, beans, grains, and eggs.  

For example, I made sure to eat foods that would give me sustainable energy for my last Jiu-Jitsu tournament. My breakfast for the day was a sautee of quinoa, scrambled egg whites, and black beans. The combination of protein and carbohydrates kept me fueled through each of my fights.

Here’s the number #1 tip you should follow when grocery shopping: stick to the perimeter of the store. While following the perimeter of the store, you’ll find your veggies and fruits, the deli section and dairy.

But this is not to say that you won’t go down any aisles. There are a few “whole foods” scattered throughout the middle of the store such as beans and rice. 

The most important part of your meal plan and diet is BALANCE. Sure, you want to stick to whole foods mainly, but there’s nothing wrong with having Cheez-It’s as a snack every once in a while. Here’s a helpful grocery list you can follow if you want to meal prep your lunches:

- 2 types of fruits you enjoy 

- 2 vegetables you enjoy

- Chicken (or tofu if you don’t eat meat)

- Brown rice

- Black beans

- Yogurt (dairy or non-dairy, try to pick one with less added sugars)

- Almonds (omit if you’re allergic to nuts)

- Honey (substitute maple syrup)

- Dark chocolate

- 1 type of cracker/treat that you enjoy such as Doritos

Make sure to multiply this list based on how many days you’ll want lunch. Your meal prep can last however many days you want it to, but I usually cap it at five days. Here’s the meal you’re going to make:

- Brown rice bowl with chicken/tofu, beans, and veggies

- Side of yogurt parfait (yogurt, fruit, almonds, honey)

- Side of dark chocolate

- 1 treat *alternate every other day*

This list is just for lunches, but you can prep any meal of your choice. If you want to meal prep your breakfast, add these items to your list:

- Large eggs (white or brown)

- Egg whites

- Loaf of bread (whichever kind you prefer)

- Any spread you put on toast

There’s your breakfast! You can make 2 eggs + extra egg whites for added protein with toast.

And if you’re interested in meal prepping your whole day, all you have to do is choose a different dish than your lunch for dinner. Since every student has a different living situation, I’ll leave this up to you to decide. 

It’s important that when you go grocery shopping for your meal prep, you pick up any other items that you need such as laundry detergent or bottled water. This will save you time and stress throughout the week since your time is limited between classes to run to the store.

Budget

It’s easy to say what you need to get at the grocery store, but I know that not every student has adequate funds to purchase my entire grocery list. This doesn’t mean that you can't meal prep.

You can easily modify any grocery list to fit your needs. For instance, instead of getting two types of vegetables and fruit, you can only get one type of each. Or if raw chicken is too expensive, scour the frozen aisles for pre-cooked chicken tenders. They may not be the healthiest option, but they might be your only option at the moment. 

If you’re a student that works a part-time job, meal prepping will save you more money than you’d expect. Instead of picking up random fast food meals throughout the week or spending $20 for a coffee and a treat at Starbucks, your only large purchase for the week should be your groceries. 

For each paycheck, set aside $30-70 for your meal prepping. The more days you meal prep, the more you will spend. It’ll seem like a large amount at first glance, but $70 spread out over 5 days is $14 for multiple meal and snacks. 

How to Meal Prep

After following your budget and gathering your groceries, it’s time to start meal prepping. Let’s grab our Tupperware and get to work!

The whole concept of meal prepping is cooking your meals in one session. Most people like to meal prep on Sunday since that’s when they have the least amount of plans. Choose a day where you know you’ll have at least 2 hours free to cook. 

Here are a few tips to follow when preparing your meals:

- Empty the dishwasher and sink before you start

- Have multiple foods cooking at once (chicken on the stove, veggies in the oven, etc.)

- Always start with the food that takes the longest to cook (rice can take up to 45 minutes)

- Make sure to eat and get yourself in a good mood before cooking

- Clean as you go

With these tips, your meal-prepping session should go smoothly. Meal prepping is something that takes time to truly perform well. The more you do it, the better it gets.

It also may help to try meal prepping with a friend or roommate so that you can delegate and split tasks.

Don’t be discouraged if your first meals are poorly seasoned or cooked through. The only way to improve is to practice and stay consistent. 

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Let's Build your Anxiety Toolbox

Shortness of breath. 

Existential dread. 

Muscle-locking fear. 

Anxiety can make you feel like you’re experiencing a mid-life crisis at the young age of 18. My mom once told me that anxiety isn’t something that goes away, “but there are ways to control it.” One of these ways is creating an anxiety toolbox.

It’s kind of like the ones you’ve seen in your home garage. But instead of a rusty hammer and dusty screwdrivers, your toolbox will include practices that help reduce and keep your anxiety at bay. 

As a college student, you have many responsibilities that didn’t exist during high school. Whether this is the first time living on your own or taking on a job to pay your student loans, college is the start of your adulthood. So if you want to put together an anxiety toolbox to soothe your anxious mind, I’ll show you how to start!

Step One – What are your Symptoms?

The first step to building your toolbox is learning how your body responds when you’re anxious. As I mentioned before, this is an individual experience. It’s important to not compare your symptoms to someone else’s because they might be totally different. 

And yes, that is okay.

Symptoms can include:

- Shortness of breath

- Muscle spasms

- Jaw tension

- Dizziness

- Racing heartbeat

- Nausea

- Intrusive thoughts

Write down your symptoms in your favorite journal or on your phone whenever you experience them. Now that you know how your body reacts, it’s time to find some ways to calm down.

Step Two – What Makes you Happy?

One of the best ways to relieve anxiety is to do something that takes your mind off of it. Whether it is adding that last piece to the jigsaw puzzle or smelling fresh pine on your favorite hiking trail, finding something that brings you happiness can take your mind off of your anxiety. 

When I say “happy,” this could also mean something that keeps you in a “flow-state” such as playing an instrument, working out, or going for a walk. Everyone has experienced flow-state at least once in their lifetime. Imagine being so zoned in on a task that everything else in your life seems to disappear. That’s flow-state. 

If you want to keep things simple, then just think about what might trigger your anxiety or make you upset and rule those out of your list. Yes- make a list of the things that make you happy. Once you have your list, now it’s time to act.

Step Three – Trial and Error

The reason why I’m asking you to make a list of the things that make you happy (or bring you into a flow-state) is because now you need to test these methods out and see if they help your anxiety. 

Not everything on your “happiness list” is going into your toolbox. From my personal experience, I’ve had anxiety while playing video games and hanging out with friends. But both of those things are on my happiness list. 

When you’re experiencing anxiety or stress, pull out your list and choose a task that fits your situation best at the moment. If you’re like me and your anxiety shows up uninvited at any time of the day (regardless of being triggered), I spend most of my time at home so I have more options when choosing from my list. But if you’re at work or running from class to class, here are a few ideas that you can do:

- Put in your earbuds and listen to your favorite artist/podcast

- Take a minute to go to the bathroom and do a breathing exercise (4-7-8, for example)

- Think of 3 things you can smell, taste, see, hear, and feel

- Talk to someone you trust about it

Step Four – Building your Toolbox

After your trial and error process, you should have an idea of what helps your anxiety. Not everyone has the opportunity to choose from their list blindfolded. Sometimes you can’t go for a walk if you’re in a seminar or listen to music during your job.

Here’s a formula I like to follow when adding practices in my toolbox:

- 5 things I can do at any time

- 2 things I can do during class

- 2 things I can do during work

- 1 thing I can do in the car

- 1 thing I can do with someone else

By the end of this process, you should have 11 methods and practices that make you feel calm during your anxious moments. As an additional bonus, you can pick and choose which ones to do depending on your daily situation. 

Now, how do we remember these 11 practices? When I say “toolbox,” you might think of a literal box. For creative and artistic readers, you’re more than welcome to make a box, write down these methods on slips of paper, and pull from them when you have anxiety. 

And for everyone else, secure your practices in the Notes app on your phone or in your journal.  

Anxiety is an individual experience, but most of the general population experiences symptoms of anxiety at least once in their lifetime. So in the end, you gotta do what works for you. 

You should write it down on your phone if you:

- Commute and don’t want to carry anything extra

- Don’t have the best roommates and don’t trust them with your stuff

You should write it in a journal if you:

- Find joy in journaling (and it’s on your happiness list)

- Like to draw

- Don’t mind carrying your journal around

You should make an actual toolbox if you:

- Are a visual learner

- Love to craft

Whenever I experience feelings of anxiety or stress, I immediately choose something to do from my toolbox knowing that even if I’ll always experience anxiety throughout my life, I have the ability to control it. I can’t tell you what’s going to work best for you. Only you can find that out for yourself. 

I hope you find joy in creating your toolbox! 

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How to Stay Organized as a Student

I always look forward to strolling down the bright white aisles of my local Target to pick up school supplies.

Shiny binders.

Pastel highlighters.

Smooth ballpoint pens.

But by the time October hits, my highlighters are out of my case and buried underneath various handouts I shoved in my backpack. I also can’t seem to find a single pencil anywhere. And I eventually lose the random pencils I pick up from the floor or “borrow” from my classmate.

At least, this used to be the case.

As a college senior, I’ve picked up a few tactics that'll help this scenario happen less and less.

Keyword: less.

No matter how organized you are, you will misplace something. It happens. But you can still minimize the chance of it happening often. 

So how do you stay organized as a student?

We need to take a look at all the areas in your life that need organizing: your school supplies, academic work, finances, and other non-negotiable items that vary from person to person.

School Supplies and Academic Work

The easiest way to keep your school supplies organized is to read your syllabi before your trip to Target so you don’t end up with more supplies than you need. The less you have, the less you need to worry about. 

Some students have found success working electronically from their iPad or laptop. This deserves its whole separate blog post, but luckily there are plenty of resources for electronic organization you can find on YouTube. 

If you’re like me and prefer writing your notes on paper, you should buy what your syllabi specifically asks you to. Once you’ve done that, here’s a list of other items to add to your cart:

- Pencil/pen case

- Pack of pencils

- Pack of pens

- At least 1 highlighter

- White-Out

- Calculator

- Backpack

Now, how do you stop the October crash from ruining your organization? Here's you answer:

You must create a routine for yourself to take things out when needed and put them back in their place after you’re done. 

For instance, you might take out your math binder and a pencil from your case. It’s important that you put these items back in your backpack when you’re done. But this doesn’t mean to throw your pencil in a random opening. You need to repeat the same steps you completed to take out your supplies. 

Put your pencil back in the case.

Close your pencil case.

Put your case back in its designated compartment in your backpack. 

Gently place your binder back in your backpack.

Close your backpack.

And for extra points: set your backpack somewhere so that you can easily grab it on the way to class.

Organizing Your Finances 

Keeping your finances organized is an amazing way to reduce unnecessary stress. One of the warmest welcomes into adulthood is that pretty plastic rectangle we refer to as a credit card.

One of the coldest welcomes into adulthood is paying your credit card bill.

The most important tip I have for college students is to open only one credit card. Since you’ve recently become an adult, building your credit (a record of your financial reliability) should start as soon as possible. This way, you’ll have an easier time for when you want to buy a house or a car because your credit score will be higher.

The better your credit score, the better chances you have at earning a deal worth your time.

If you want to build an excellent credit score, only use your credit card for purchases that you know you have the money for in your bank account. Then when it comes time to pay your monthly credit card bill, pay it off in full. 

This is mostly to avoid paying exorbitant interest rates. But your credit card company will see that you're responsible with your money and might even increase your card limit.

Along with your credit card, I recommend opening a second debit card. This debit card should be used for things like overpriced Starbucks drinks and stale dining hall food.

In other words, this card should only be used during the semester. 

The main goal of your second debit card is to set a budget for yourself during the semester. If you only want to spend $20 a week, then only keep $20 on there.

Your other debit card will be your home base that you can set up direct deposit for and use to send money to your other debit account.

Here’s a quick recap since that was a lot of information:

- Have a main debit card that you use for when you’re home

- Have a second debit card that you use for when you’re at school

- Apply for 1 credit card to start building your credit

This is a system I use to keep my money organized. My main debit card is used for things like depositing checks and paying subscriptions. My second debit card is used for buying small daily items during the semester. And my credit card is used for building my credit score (sort of like an extension of my main debit card).

General Tips

One issue I see busy students have is remembering appointments or meetings. Whether it’s your massage appointment or a work meeting with your boss, you should have a designated space to remember these events.

Lucky enough, most smartphones come with a calendar app that’ll notify you when it’s time for your appointment.

On my iPhone, I put any event in my calendar as soon as I’m made aware of it. If I don’t, I’ll most likely forget about it. This is how you can organize your meetings and appointments so you don't forget them.

For my notification settings, I have two reminders set for each event that’ll pop up on my Home Screen. The first comes two days before the event and the second comes two hours before. The reason I use these settings is because two days will give me enough time in advance to remember the appointment (especially if it’s made a few weeks ago). And it gives enough notice to the other party in case I need to cancel. I also use the two-hour notification so that I have enough time to get ready. 

Another skill I’ve started to utilize setting timers and alarms. When that two-hour notification goes off, here’s what I do:

- Take note of where I am and where I will be when it’s time to leave

- Check the traffic (if I need to drive anywhere)

- Set an alarm for when I have to start getting ready to leave

The alarm tells me when it’s time to GO! No stops and definitely no $200. 

Other than appointments, miscellaneous items can refer to different hobbies such as knitting. I can’t give advice on EVERYTHING that has to be organized because I may not know how to organize yarn the best way. So here are a few general tips that you can apply to any miscellaneous items:

- Keep a designated space for your items and only keep them in that space

- Invest in storage bins and make sure you label them

- Everything you take out must be put back in its spot

- Dedicate at least 10 minutes once a week to clean your space

- Set alarms and use timers to make sure that you’re not wasting time

Organizing your space and supplies is the best way to keep your mind clear. You’ll have more time to think about the task at hand instead of trying to find the supplies you need to do it. 

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"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language." — Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

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Do something that makes you happy every. single. day.