Okay, so this blog used to be about interesting things and discussions, and I've strayed quite a bit from that in the past few months, favoring rants at life to aleviate stress. So here's to going back to the basics:
Did you eat you blueberries? Seriously, it must have been 20 posts ago when I championed the antioxidant properties of blueberries. Here's your personal check up from Sarah! Go eat them. (They are amazing in cereal.)
A word of wisedom on knowing your limits:
I dropped a class today. I was only taking 17 credit hours this semester but I overestimated my own abilities to function under a very demanding courseload - OChem 2, Ecology and Evolution, and Ordinary Differential Equations were the hardest, so in order to keep my sanity, I withdrew passing from the math course.
Anyone else have difficulties understanding their limits? What is working TOO hard? And how do you know that you are?
So for a healthy lifestyle an adult human needs between 6-10 hours of sleep depending on the individual and their age. Suprisingly adolescents and young adults need more sleep than children and the 50 plus-ers.
So sign one that you are overworking - lack of an appropriate amount of sleep and stable sleep schedule.
Sign two - you compromise time usually devoted to family or loved ones in order to accomplise work or school tasks.
Sign three - house-cleaning, car maintenence, and day-to-day tasks are being neglected.
Sign four - you feel like crap.
With any of these its time to reconsider your workload.
More to come, I hope,
Sincerely,
Sarah
If it makes you feel any better, I've been on overload all semester. I was only taking 15 hours, and yet I had to drop two classes (a science and a lab) then add an easy eight week one just so that I could pass with decent grades and stop stressing out. My boyfriend says that ever since I did that I'm way happier. But I work night shifts and have full day schedules with everything else in life. I know how you feel. I miss you =[
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine working that hard, Krista! Kuddos! And I miss you too. Sometimes it helps just knowing that their is someone that can understand what I go through with my moods. I really appreciate knowing you, you know? Come back home for the summer, kay?
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