I could be wrong, however I am noticing a lot of burn out between my friends and I. We are the hardest working people I know. Us millennials are going to get to a bag, and then some. So, how do we manage it all?

I can’t speak for everyone else, but with a busy semester and another small business under the way I would like to share what helps me not drown in the midst of it all. Thankfully I have a job that allows me to work from home 3 days out of the week, and as sweet as that sounds, my 3 days at home end being 3 days at school, 3 days running errands, 3 days catching up on house hold chores, etc.

What I find that helps the most is planning. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I fully invest in planners and writing out tasks for my day to day. I am currently using the student planner by Blue Sky which can be bought at target (will insert link at the end). What I love specifically about the student planner is that it breaks my weekly schedule up by class, therefore I can write out what assignment is due for the week, as well as what hours I can carve out to study for each individual class. That pretty much settles my school stuff.

Now my personal life… this starts with a strict schedule. I truly believe a good nights sleep will do you so good. I have set bedroom hours 8;45pm to 10pm where I do nothing but exist, and whine down for a long day. A typical day for me is waking up at 6:45am, work or class by 9am, working out by 6pm, dinner by 8pm, and in the bed at 8:45pm. I do limit how much I am on my phone between 8:45pm and 10:30pm. All lights and tv are off exactly at 10:45pm. This way I make sure I get my full 8 hours of sleep. 10:45 to 6:45. And to be honest I am knocked out by 10pm most nights anyways.

This schedule didn’t come easy. I struggled since January to try to find something that works for me. When I decided that I’d be taking four science classes and pre-calculus i figured “Girl you need to get it tf together, because this semester is about to be No Joke”. And so slowly but surely I would try to get in bed earlier, and tell myself to leave the laptop and ipad out of the bedroom.

In order to maintain this schedule I have to be gracious with myself. There are days where I want to be overly ambitious, but I have to remind myself there’s always tomorrow. Do not bring your work into the bedroom because you feel guilty. Do not study for another hour just because you want to finish the exact chapter where it ends. No. Do not workout for 15 more minutes because you want ice cream. Do not stress yourself out, because it simply just isn’t worth it. It’s not always easy as guilt does creep up form time to time, but being more gracious with myself has been a big help.

And like I promised here is the link to the planner that I absolutely love:

For those in school 

And for everyone else 

xOxO a girl tryng to get her life together