The Balance

I spoke about "The Balance" in my last post. This mythical balance that is so hard to achieve, though it sounds like it's a breeze. This is the paradox of The Balance.

I like to think of it more like a teeter-totter, when one side goes up, the other goes down. Sometimes, you're perfectly balanced, and sometimes you're way off kilter. Those balances for me are health and school. Work doesn't factor in so much because I'm a temp and can turn down work if I want to... not so much of a burden in the health/school thing.

When I find the health side is way low to the ground and school is way up in the air (bad for health, good for school), I feel burnt-out and like my brain can't handle simple tasks. On the other side, when health is up and school is down, I feel like (and probably am) falling behind in classes because I'm spending more time maintaining my emotional, physical and mental health.

Today I flipped the balance to work on health. I find that I get caught up in the school-verse and forget to do simple things like eating right or going to the gym.

The weeks I have that teeter-totter perfectly balanced, I feel like a rock star! But lets face it, those days are few and far between.

The key here is time management. I always do better when I have the time thing down and stop with the procrastination. Lately it's been online shopping for summer stuff--a new sleeping pad, a backpacking hammock, water filtration system. Even summer hikes themselves. My new obsession? "Fatpacking."