What are your BEST living Practices?

Today was another day that was not as productive as I would have liked. From 6:00pm onwards, I had to prep for FHE. I am an FHE mom and needed to give some people a ride to the event we were going to. It took longer to get there than I thought. I also had a few meetings earlier in the day that took a lot more time than I thought. So all in all, I got a lot done but none of it was homework.

I didn't meditate today. I was able to relax though. I feel myself getting sick because I had a lot of late nights last week. I slept after going to only an hour of church. Then I did a puzzle with my roommates. It was nice. We put on Harry Potter and relaxed. I haven't had a day like this in forever.

I have had three days in a row where I am taking time to meditate. I find that throughout the day I am more mindful of my emotions. I am also more ware of my thoughts and am becoming able to recognize when the stressful thoughts are coming and I can stop them before they start. I am also more aware of my breath over the course of the day. It's interesting.

I have a fitbit Charge 2 and something I can do with it is meditate for two minutes at a time. I did it throughout the day, about 3 times total. It was nice to take a little break throughout the day. I think I will keep doing this.

My midterm was due today. I didn't do any other homework because my brain is so fried. I started mediation today. I have an app that walks me through. For the ten minutes I did, I felt so much more calm. Then the stress cam right back. Maybe if I do more throughout the day I will be able to stay calmer.

This week I have been heavily using my agenda. I have a major Political Science exam that is taking up all my time. I think it total it's going to take me 20 hours, and that's not an exaggeration. My whole life is being spent in the library. I think I might start mediation to keep my stress level down.

With designing time to fit my needs, I have been really just keeping to do lists. Fore each day in my weekly layout I have been keeping running to do lists in order to feel like I have control. I am learning not to feel super stressed and just go with the flow. I complete things when I can but I don't have a specific time that I am doing homework or other to dos.