One thing that I had to balance this semester was my schedule. I balanced working 12 hours with the lead office 21 hours with Mason LIFE and 7 hours to my church and 16 credits! I definitely realized there was a conflict of time but negotiating what was more important was very difficult.

My three values are faith, service, and humility. My faith means everything so I was not willing to say no it, and the other two had service and humility in them. I think it was hard for me to say no to being financially well but I eventually had to negotiate my involvement in all aspects of my life to make sure that I was doing academically and spiritually well. I sought advice for what to do and discussed how I could better manage my schedule.

I realized that although I was working a lot of hours I still had time to be successful it all would come down to how I spent my few hours of free time. Besides sleep I realized that I should set goals for each day allowing myself to not only organize my tasks but reward myself by seeing my accomplishments. This encouragement gave me the motivation to get things done and in a timely manner. It may not have been a conflict with any person but conflict can stem from within as well and I am happy that with the help of people in my life I was able to manage and gain control of that inner conflict that was effecting different aspects of my life.