Balanced is the Way to Be!

By:  Alyssa Neal

As you guys all know, every month there is an IB-Attribute focus. So for the month of March, the IB-attribute we are focusing on as a school is "Balanced". Wow! It is already March! The school year is going by so fast! Well anyways, I just love that next months IB-Attribute is "Balanced". The definition of the word balanced, is basically just how you imagine it. Calm & cool, clear-headed, and motivated. For example, what is one scenario where you need literal balance? Standing on one leg! Okay, step one of standing on one leg; you need to be calm & cool. Because, if you are standing on one leg all excited and hyper, who is going to fall? That's right. You.  Second step of standing on one leg, you need to have a clear-mind. Because if you are thinking about random things while trying to balance, you will probably get of balance and fall. Rather than someone who was focused on not falling and had a clear mind. Now you have mastered the move on balancing on one leg. While I was writing those steps, I was actually trying to balance on one leg while thinking random thoughts. Now guess what? I fell each time!

Now, for the golden steps to being a balanced person:
1.) Care: Be kind to yourself, and do the same to others.
2.)Reflective: Take time to look back in your good past, and pull more of those good things in to your current life, so you can remember those great memories. And take a look at the bad ones; reflect and learn from  them. Take a look, reflect, use them to make you a better person.  Ask yourself questions like- Good memories? How will I try to be more balanced? What can I do differently next time?
3.) Examine: "Examine" all the parts in your life that you would like to be more balanced.  Are you spending too much time playing video games, and not enough time on your academics?  Too much time with your friends, and not enough time with your family? 
4.) Prepare: Get your insides ready. Get all those things that will stop you from not being a balanced person, and prepare for it so you will have goals that help you accomplish your goal on being balanced.
6.) Connect: Get your main man / women in place. Your main supporters to help you through this journey of being balanced.  They could be your family members, teachers, or friends. 

Be balanced.