Balance Reflection Essay

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How Have I Learned to Balance Penn Foster Studies with Work, Family and Other Activities and Responsibilities?

Over a period I have come to conceptualize a true aspect of life that Balance Studies, Work, Family, Other Activities, and Responsibilities can prove to be quite cumbersome. This may occur when I have to meet a set of goals for each entity. As a single mother of a teenage daughter, I live in my house with my significant other and my daughter. I work full-time as a laboratory technician at the Vegetable, Fruit and Upland Crop Quality and Safety Improvement Project. My day begins at 4:30 a.m. to do my physical exercise, in my home or on the by-pass road which lasts for one hour. Then prepared lunch for the day. I would commute to work …show more content…

My English Composition Course has been challenging regarding the amount of time needed to finish this course as it requires a lot of times and attention. Consequently, I have learned the best way to balance my schedule of activities through, utilizing the most available time. I have been working diligently on finding ways to help balance some of the challenges with work, home, school, and personal responsibilities. This course of study has taught me many valuable lessons; organization, time management, planning and research practice that I use in my daily routine. I have decided to do more planning ahead of schedule by means of being more disciplined, avoiding distraction, asking my significant other and my daughter to assist in the home with some of the responsibility. I start saving time, by planning a weekly schedule to guide me on what to do on a given time and date on accomplishing my daily task and responsibilities. On my timetable or schedule, I have formed a routine to set my Phone alarm to wake me up at 4:a.m, I would go into my study room to do reviews and research for, forty (40) minutes. At 4:45 a.m. I go for my morning jog for one hour (1) on the highway about two or three minutes away from my home, to relax my system. After embarking from my jog. by 6: a.m. instead of having to prepare breakfast alone, I have scheduled for my teenage daughter and my significant other to occasionally prepared breakfast; to save time, while I shower then get dress for work, dressing takes me about thirty-five minutes(35). I then take part in having breakfast around 7: a.m. which is on the schedule, and leave my home at 7:30 a.m. To reach work by 8:45 a.m. To avoid the long traffic. With Relating to my work reports, I will combined all reports to come up with one final draft, which enables me to plan things on how to systematically go about different activities. Addition to my schedule, I have asked my daughter to take

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