This week, for my county at least, is spring break!! Spring break is a time for us to relax and give our minds and bodies a week off of strenuous activities and assignments, but remember to keep stretching. Spring break can also be a time for you to gather your thoughts and get a plan for the rest of the school year. Enough about spring break, this post is about how you can make your load of balancing school and dance easier for the rest of this year and next.
1.Get a Planner
Planners are so helpful because they help you keep track of when your assignments are due and when you have important things for dance. Once a week try to sit down and write everything down in your planner that is coming up, and then everyday check back to see what is happening that day or in the near future.
2. Make To-Do Lists
Making to-do lists always help me get things done. Writing these things down will give you a visual to see which things are the most important. *TIP-Try and complete the big things first, so that if you get to a day where you are running out of time you already have the big things done.
3. Do Your Homework
This one seems obvious, but you should do your homework right as it is given to you. Now you are going to have to look over it before you review it in class, but it will be worth it when you can take that 5 extra minutes sleeping or doing whatever else. Another tip is to get a ahead instead of behind. If your teacher gives you a homework schedule for the next few weeks, try to do some everyday so that you will be ahead. If you are ahead and need to work on something else, you will not fall behind.
3. Keep Your Room Clean
Keeping your room clean will help to keep your mind clean. Imagine that you wake up in the morning and you can't find your six page paper that you have been working on all week. Odds are this probably won't happen if you have been working on this all week, but if you just put that pair of shoes up as soon as you take them to your room, it will help you, and your mom, stay sane.
4. Do Your Homework While Stretching
I cannot stress enough the importance of stretching everyday, see my post about it here, but school does come in front of activities. So if you need to, stretch while you are reading or stretch while you are studying for that test if you want. Just remember to not get distracted and stay focused on your school work.
5. Eat Healthy
I know everyone says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and it is because you are getting your body ready for the day, but I think that every meal is important because it is fueling your body for the next few hours. No it doesn't hurt to eat that small piece of chocolate every once in a while, but doing that everyday is only going to tear your body down instead of building it up. So remember to eat your fruits, veggies, and proteins to not only help your body, but to also help your mind.
6. Sleep
I know sometimes you just have to stay up to read that last chapter or study those vocab words just one last time, but when you have the chance to sleep you need to take it. I try to set my phone on airplane mode, and put it on the charger before I read so that I can let my mind begin to wind down and not be thinking about that post that someone made on instagram.
7. #Goals
My last tip is to have some goals. Don't set them to high and to far out that there is no way for you to be able to accomplish them, but set them day by day so that you will be able to accomplish them and you'll be able to accomplish them well. Instead of thinking of the grades you are going to try to make in college, which is great everyone should try to aim for college, you should think about the grade that you want to make on the test next week. You should also keep your dance goals in mind because that will keep you to keep driving and fighting everyday.
These are someways that I try to do to help myself get everything I need to get done done in a week. If you have more suggestions leave them in the comments below. Remember to keep dancing and keep studying.
Hannah
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