How I keep my sanity + an Announcement

If you've been keeping up with my blog for a while now, then you know my life is crazy. I have school, work, a design businesss, a blog, and a boyfriend. All of those things combined can make for a pretty stressful and hectic life  and I've had a lot of people ask me how I keep track of everything. My first answer is as much wine as possible but there are a few other things that have helped keep me sane and semi-organized.
1. Allot a specific time for everything. There are some days when I have literally written out a "schedule" for my day. Like 8 am - 10 am, wake up, eat and go to the gym. 11 am - 1 pm, lunch, blog reading, meal prep. 1 pm - 3 pm work on paper/project/study for test. You get it. When I do this it helps keep me on track and prevents aimless social media trolling and things like that.
2. Do one thing every day that you enjoy.

For me, it's the gym. No, I don't go every day but I go 4-5 times a week and it is my time to punish enjoy myself and not thing about school, work, Derek, or blogging. It's my time and without it I would go crazy. It can be anything from walking your dog around the neighborhood to catching up on your DVR to reading a favorite book. Anything that helps you relax, do it for 30 minutes to an hour every day.

3. Realize there will be hard days and there will be fun days. Some weeks there are three days in a row where I am busting my ass going to work for 12 hours at a time, school, working on designs, looking at houses, and trying to feed myself and look like a decent person in between. What keeps me going on these days is knowing that I get a whole day off soon to do something fun.
4. Take an off day.

In relation to having three hard days in a row, I always try to have one day a week where I do whatever I want. This usually consists of going mountain biking with Derek, having a nice Netflix binge, or going to the movies all by my self (it's actually more fun than you think).
Drink all the wine. 

What do you do to keep yourself sane when you feel overwhelmed by life?
This post was previously featured as a guest post on Back East Blonde.
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Have you ever wanted to have brunch with some of your favorite bloggers and talk about all things blogging over mimosas or coffee? Why am I even asking that, of course you have! Ashten, of Always Ashten and myself are hosting a virtual blogger hangout (also known as #happyhourhangout) this weekend, except you'll be brunching instead of happy hour-ing. The hangout will be Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m. EST.

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