This behavior change, on reducing my amount of stress has been very useful. It has not only helped my mental well being, but even my physicality. In the beginning of this change I was not fully giving my best version of myself, it was difficult to handle everything that was going on at school and within my personal life. I was getting overwhelmed and was having emotional breakdowns and was just trying to get task down and pushing my well being aside. As weeks went by there was little progress, some weeks were better than others. The tough weeks consisted of exams, large assignments and personal problems. School seemed to outweigh my stress more, so i made it a focus to just work on new methods to reduce my stress. I was able to form new studying habits and progress my exam scores, while also figuring out how to balance and plan a schedule. As weeks progressed I started to a apply these to by everyday task, and was also able to give myself the last week to focus on my personal being. I was noticing that with these positive habits, I was also trying to maintain health eating habits and personal time aside to do something I enjoyed. I was dedicating a day of the week to do something I like and not focus on school, normally Saturday, to just destress. With having a balance of everything I started to form better habits and make this a better routine for myself, decreasing my level of stress. I know now there is always solutions to deal with stress, and want to continue this journey on my own.
