BENNEFIT BLOG

Sitting in Philadelphia International waiting for a flight seems like a good time to reflect on some realizations that occurred to me while returning home to New Jersey after being gone for so long. The trip was very eventful, full of time spent with family and friends around the 4 th of July holiday that was well enjoyed. With all of the celebration and activities many lessons are becoming more evident now that I am in full fledged adulting mode leading into last year of grad school in Florida. Lesson 1. Budget wisely Leading up to the trip back to NJ from FL I basically only had saved enough to afford the transportation between flights and trains round-trip and didn’t take into consideration all of the other things I would need to spend money on like food and nights out on the town with my friends. Big reason is that I made some purchasing decisions before I flew out that set me back and basically forced me to work while I was home on my “vacation” to make up for the expens...

Now I'm sure that this is just me getting inside my own head or over-analyzing myself, but I would like to believe that what I'll be talking about in this post is not just unique only to me and that there are also people my age or in similar situations as myself who can relate. For some time now I have been consistently overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with work, overwhelmed with school, overwhelmed with my social life, overwhelmed my personal life, Just. Overwhelmed. And after thinking about it for a while now I have come to a realization that although this state of overwhelmingness has begun to take over my life, I have been battling it quite efficiently. Also, I think that it all boils down to this: The reason I am feeling this is because of my overly ambitious lifestyle and I may tend to bite of more than I can chew. The reason I titled this being scatterbrained is that it s exactly how I feel: My thoughts are all over the place my priorities are all unorganized and althou...

So a word that has plagued my life the past few weeks is Complacency. By dictionary definition meaning:  a feeling of quite pleasure or security; self-satisfaction Now after reading that definition you may wonder, why is a feeling of self satisfaction being looked as a negative thing? For me I don’t want to feel comfortable or satisfied any moment in this life. As a 20-something this is a point in our lives where we need to make leaps and bounds towards what we are after; our short term objectives to meet out long term goals. Now I, for one, have one overarching goal of  experiencing this life we live with  abundance . To be able to prioritize enjoying the finer things in this world around the routines of our daily lives. Now since we are all familiar with life as a “rollercoaster,” with its ups and downs, this post is the result of recently coming off of a down and to talk about why we need to recognize when we we are getting complacent. These p...