Today's post rides on the tails of yesterday's in that it has to do with reducing overwhelm. Of course, it has another important benefit - saving my hearing. As a voiceover artist who works with my ears for a living, this is imperitive.

I carry what I have affectionately dubbed The Emergency Audio Card around my neck on my keychain wherever I go. It accompanies my bus pass, my school schedule and school ID. On it, there are 6 QR codes. Each QR code leads directly to a piece of audio I find soothing, depending on the extent of my overwhelm.

Got an old water bottle lying around? Who doesn't. Got a marker? I prefer the acrylic paint markers, but if you're using a stainless steel water bottle, permanent marker is great, too. Here's what I write down on my water bottle all spaced out. I aim for three bottles per day (mine's not a huge bottle).

Hey folks!  Most of you don’t know at the time of this writing that I’m going to nursing school fulltime right now…in French. Do I like torturing myself? I guess so.  For the last 9 months of school, I carried around two planners: one for school and another to organize all the stuff I needed to do at home. I’m old school - I need the pen-to-paper-to-brain connection in order to remember anything. (Side note: I also tried typing my notes and using a digital planner, but I neve