Overwhelmed yet?

A good tip for staying balanced is to be sure you are clear about your goals. What is it you want from this year?

Getting organized right at the beginning is going to make your year a LOT easier. Being organized can reduce your stress and increase your chances of success.

The student agenda is a great resource for keeping yourself organized. It also has information about all the support services available to students.

If you are not sure where to start – ask for help – Jodie in the Student Success Hub can point you in the right direction.


Student Success Mentors will be running workshops on Time Management , Study Skills and Managing Your Stress so check in with your Student Success Mentor early in the semester. They are also available to help you on a one to one basis.

Paying attention to your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being will help you feel balanced. Be sure you are balancing fun time and academics - both are important.

Nourishing yourself physically can mean moving your body - a walk, climbing the stairs to get to class or playing on the intra school baseball team.

Physical nourishment also includes making sure to include fruits and vegetables in your daily meals, having some care about the amount of sugar and caffeine you put into your body and giving your body the chance to have 7-9 hours of restful, nourishing, replenishing SLEEP! Yes, sleep is something humans need.

Nourishing yourself emotionally includes spending time with people whose eyes light up when they see you, extending kindness to someone and noticing your own strong qualities.

Mental nourishment is almost a given at school. Here you are in college. Your mind has lots to be curious about and lots of interesting, knowledgeable people around. Your mind also enjoys vacations from its usual busy rounds so be sure to let your mind relax into a visualization or meditation. You can find some great meditations on YouTube - just type in relaxation and you will get a variety of different lengths and types.


To nourish yourself spiritually can mean time alone listening to music that feels like it soothes your soul. It might mean a few quiet moments in the garden or some quiet time thinking about qualities that are important to you such as kindness, forgiveness or generosity. Spirituality means different things to people but in general it refers to the sense of something bigger than just the physical body, bigger than just yourself.


These sites have great info particularly relevant to college students on issues of time management, study skills, social skills and dealing with stress to name a few.

http://www.iamnext.com/living/balance.html">http://www.iamnext.com/living/balance.html

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/career/time-man.html">http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/career/time-man.html


http://www.mala.ca/mariners/mental.htm">http://www.mala.ca/mariners/mental.htm