Daily Days

Well, I have gotten into writing a journal more. I used to just write when I had so much going on that I helped myself focus when I wrote it down. In between my math class and English, I have two and a half hours of 'me' time to spend at the college so I am either doing homework, studying, or as of late I have been writing to my flash drive at the cyber lounge. Note, the desk guy is really cute so I go there but there is also the library if it is too full.

I just found out this week about the Taylor Swift/Kanye West thing. Tells you how much I pay attention to the news. I used to watch Colbert Nation all the time but I found that watching any TV lately makes me mellow. I did like that Obama said Kanye was a "Jackass".

I should be paying attention more to what Obama is doing now but I am having a micro-world view right now. Only things I want to focus on are around me. I do focus on the nation and world views every now and again but I find I stress and worry unnecessarily when I do. When the talks of recession came, everything became depressed and everything seemed like a down spiral in politics and then transferred to my everyday life.

Something I learned in massage school is that life needs to be balanced as to how you want it but also burned evenly in each aspect.

This is referring to balancing education, career, relationships, creativity, finance, spiritual (or religious), and fitness. These all can be called different things and divided up differently by others but the idea is there. One way to measure yourself is like our class had a printed out pie drawn with all these parts divided in it. You filled in from the center how fulfilled you are in each aspect. If it was not rounded out then you are recommended to take from one to fill out another. The idea is not so much it be full but that it be round. If it is round then the happier you can become and then the fuller it will get.

I usually take these and suggest to myself ways to encourage more from myself in each.
Education - pursing MLT degree, going to classes
Career - Working at coffee shop to get myself through school to get professional career.
Relationships - work in progress but I am fulfilled with friends and family to not feel burdened
Creativity - I write a 5,000 word chapter every two weeks, I think that counts =) but I also used to knit which is very relaxing if anyone wants to try it.
Finance - It is there, again pursing professional career
Spiritual - Personally I never saw myself as a church goer but I am going to a non-denomination to experience more. Overall, I do self-search and feel free enough to say I am content with this aspect.
Fitness - I walk/jog 3-4 miles a day.

I know when I shift from a student to professional this will all change with it but you get the idea. I would like to know if anyone else has tried something like this or a means of balancing themselves out.