Keeping up with your grades, sports, performing arts, family life, job, and you-time in high school life can be very, very hectic. How are we expected to keep up with every aspect of our lives on a timely and organized basis?Being able to keep up with yourself comes with time and maturing on your own, but there are some small tips and tricks that definitely take some of the stress off  your shoulders.

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Getting your tools together. If you have everything you need to complete your day to day tasks, theres virtually nothing standing in your way of being awesome. Keep all of your pens, highlighters, post it's, and earasers in the same spot ( like a pouch or a box) to lessen your chance of loosing them. (Hazel Stange / LHS Lion Tales)

Of course having no stress at all is unrealistic, but striving towards less stress is not in the least bit naive.

You will graduate. You get into college. You will travel. You will get that dream job. You will be happy. Everything comes on its own time,  so let yourself take in where you are now. Appreciate everything, no matter how small it seems; you’ll notice how many positive things there are in your life and how unimportant the negatives are. We are all rooting for you, Lions!