How can achieve balance in their life?
What is Balance?
Mental health involves striking a balance in all elements of your life, including your social, physical, spiritual, economic, and mental health. Finding a balance is a process of trial and error. You may have to re-establish your balance if you tip the balance too much in one direction. Your personal balance will be unique, and maintaining that balance will be your challenge.
Explore, Feedback, and Goals
- Explore and Adventure outside your comfort zone
This provides you more opportunities to figure out what type of job you can do well in
- Listen to feedback and criticism
use the feedback you receive to seek ways to improve and disregard jobs that you don't do well in
- Set Realistic Goals
Set goals for yourself that you know you can achieve. With the appropriate goals, you can expect yourself to reach certain places you didn't know you can reach.
Career and Skills
-Career Summary
For employers to catch on to who you are professional, you should include a career summary. This is a short description describing what you do and what makes you special. A career summary should always be one of the first things you add to your personal portfolio.
- Skills and Abilities
This is how you get to prove your worth to the employers. You list all the things you do well so they can keep in mind what makes you special.
Describe a good mentor. If you could say anything to your younger self, what would you say?
A good mentor is someone who can support you through your highs and lows when you need them the most. A good mentor is often reliable when expressing feelings and provides you with the best support you can ask for. If I could say anything to my younger self, it would be to make wise decisions and to be sympathetic. Back then, I would often make decisions which I would soon regret. Another thing I would do if I were to mentor my younger self, would be to care for others and try to understand where they're coming from. In the past, I could have helped many of my loved ones if I had listened to them and understood what they were trying to say. These are only some of the things I'd say to myself as a mentor.
Balance/Career Advice
Receive and Give
Many people think harsh of themselves often. We may have difficulties accepting kindness and compliments from others, causing us to reply with a, "Thanks but…" You have to learn how to accept these generous compliments. An easy to help do this is to answer with a "Thank you".
Mentor and Help
- Find a Mentor
you can receive more info on certain jobs by simply just asking someone about a job or how you can succeed in it.
- Don't be afraid to ask for help
If you are having trouble or problems, never hesitate to ask questions. Always ask questions for clarification on different tasks instead of making unnecessary mistakes.
Professional Accomplishments and Work Samples
- Professional Accomplishments
This is also one of the important parts of your personal portfolio. Here, you should include any professional accomplishments you've achieved. This helps employers see what you've accomplished.
- Samples of your Work
This time, you provide your employers with some actual samples of your work. They can analyze your work and they acknowledge what you've done.
Where are some places in town that you can volunteer?
Some places you can volunteer in include Wood Buffalo Volunteer Centre, Wood Buffalo Food Bank, and Keyano College. There are also ways you can volunteer in the community without having to book appointments. These ways include picking up trash in your local environment, different stores and in different schools. Even if it's not much, doing a small thing for the community can make a massive difference.
Personal Portfolio/Job Postings
Personal Portfolio - https://www.reputationdefender.com/blog/job-seekers/13-things-you-need-to-include-in-your-career-portfolio
Job Postings -
Friends and Family
Take the time to know your family and friends. Take time to acknowledge their skills, traits and abilities. Everyone is unique and different. Learn to give them support as well as receive theirs.
Make the Right Friends
Choose your friends wisely, choose friends that will understand you when times you're feeling under the weather or even when you're feeling like you can do anything. Friends who understand you will comfort you and give you support in all times of your life. If you're scared to lose them or you fee that you're drifting away, keep in touch, build a friendship tree. This will help maintain a healthy relationship with that special person(s).
Enjoy
- Find a job you Enjoy
When you're in a job where you enjoy spending time in, it causes you to lose stress and have colleagues you can vent to. It may take a while to find a job you enjoy, but the wait is worth it. When you're enjoying your job, work will feel less and it'll push you to go beyond requirements.
Awards/Transcripts, degrees, licenses, and certifications
- Awards/Honors
Employers usually look for past achievements to know that they are dealing with someone who can achieve things in the future.
- Transcripts, degrees, licenses, and certifications
Over anything else, employers want to see one thing, proof of your qualification for the position. This means actual documents or certificates of your work.
Praying
Prayer is a way we can communicate to God about our problems, wishes, concerns, etc. It's also a way to worship God. Praying is a daily practice in many of our lives. We include praying in our day during times like before meals, after meals, mass, after receiving something, when we sleep, when we wake up or even whenever we feel like praying. Praying relieves stress and helps us stay connected to God.
High School Job Opportunities/Volunteerism
Job Opportunities -
https://www.goodwall.io/blog/best-jobs-for-high-school-students/
Volunteerism -
http://www.canadian-universities.net/Volunteer/Alberta-Fort_McMurray.html
Priorities, Stress and Involvement
Priorities
Figure out your priorities. Find things that you know should be put first. It can be big things like improving on your mental health or even small things like planning your day.
Involvement
Being involved in many things cause us to feel satisfaction, purpose and enjoyment. No matter how small or big your efforts are, remember that involving yourself will make a big difference.
Stress
Stress is a normal part of everyday life. Don't worry if you're feeling stressed because everyones gone through it and are continually feeling it. A way to relieve stress is taking a 10 minute break. Use this time to call whoever you want for support and just do things that make you happy.
Let go of the need to be perfect
Not everyone is perfect, and we all know that. You can reduce stress yourself by letting these mistakes change your way of thinking. When looking for a career, you will never see a "perfect" example of a good employee. When you go for perfection, it'll slow down your productivity and effectiveness as you need to stop yourself just to adjust those tiny problems. Letting go of that perfection will cause you to be satisfied with what you've accomplished and will overall keep you positive.
Where can you find job postings?
There are many ways to find job postings. One of the ways is to physically go to places in search of a job that is hiring people. Now, if you're unsuccessful with this, there's another way, that is to browse through websites and apps. There are many good and reliable websites which help you find jobs that are hiring.
Understand how one develops the habits of prayer according to the spirit and example of Jesus Christ
To develop the habit of praying, you need to:
- Pray Intentionally
Don't pray just to pray. In order to keep in touch with God, you have to pray with intention. When you pray intentionally, you start to rely on praying in almost everything you do and it will help you succeed.
-Pray Consistently
Learn to pray consistently. Make prayer a part of your daily routine. The more you pray, the more you're connected with God.
Prayer
Prayer -
https://theparentcue.org/cultivating-a-prayer-habit/
I also got info from my perspective and from google classroom
Learn to Control and Deal with your Emotions
We all seek ways to control and deal with our emotions. When we control our emotions, we refrain from doing unnecessary actions.
Describe a time you’ve had to do the right thing. What choices did you make? Was it difficult to make good choices?
An example of a time I had to do the right thing was back in 4th grade. At the time, I was in a different school, not in Fort McMurray. I had seen my friends picking on this one girl in my class who had a disability. I was good friends with them and we would always be doing the same thing. I had seen them picking on the girl on multiple occasions but there was just one time when they took it too far. They started hurting her and I was stuck there thinking about what to do. Since they were good friends with me, I didn't want to ruin our friendships because I took the girl's side. I struggled a lot at the time but couldn't resist the urge to help her. I ran up to them and told them to stop. I still remember the look they gave me and it was hard for me to keep eye contact. I guess they were really disappointed in me as I always sided with them so they just left me standing there with the girl they bullied. I know that it would've been hard for me to make friends like them again but I wanted to help her out. It took time but eventually, they matured and came to their senses and apologized to me and the girl for what they did. We still talk to this day and even now, I would do the same as I did that day. This taught me that sometimes I have to sacrifice things important to me in order to make the right choice.
What is a job opportunity for someone in high school?
One of the main job opportunities for high school students is internships. These are when companies or businesses offer a period of work experience for a limited amount of time. These are big jobs, but if you want small jobs there are definitely many. These include being a cashier, fast-food employee, yard worker, babysitter, barista, farm worker, front desk receptionist, lifeguard, restaurant waiter, delivery person and many more.
Prayer is a form of meditation. What are the benefits of meditation and prayer?
Prayer and Meditation are very similar. Meditation is a way to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression and promote emotional health and well-being. Prayer is almost like a form of Meditation. Prayer also takes on these forms but in a different way.