Assignment 21 - Finding Balance - Jordan Grady

Coming into junior year, I noticed that one of my biggest personal dilemmas was finding the time for completing homework, maintaining a social life, participating in extracurriculars, etc. There didn't seem to be enough hours in the day. Finding the perfect balance between different facets of my life was challenging, but overcoming the urge to maintain a rigid schedule allowed me the freedom to do so. In the past, I found myself sitting at my desk and working on homework well into the night, isolating myself from other people and tasks. Rather than putting this pressure on myself, I’ve learned that overcoming the obstacle of an imbalanced life was quite simple. If I spend over an allotted amount of time on homework in a night, I leave it for the next morning. As an early riser I often found myself twiddling my thumbs, waiting to leave for school. Now I have time in the mornings to finish my work, as well as time in the evenings for other tasks. Once I let go of those rigid objectives I had set for myself, balance came along easily.