One Ten X South Island School

One Ten’s Program Director, Ada was at South Island School and gave a talk on why it is important to find the time to exercise and to maintain a healthy lifestyle with the Year 10 students. The youth were encouraged with certain points on how to achieve this, also bringing focus to their mental and emotional health.

Balance is:

• Not about achieving an equal pie chart in your life: as a young adult, school, family and personal hobbies take up different quantitative portions; ensure each portion is executed with mindfulness and and quality
• About finding physical, mental and emotional health; find the time to exercise, to take time for yourself, to meditate, to journal.

A support network:

• Is beautifully woven, complex patchwork
• Is family, friends and different communities, such as One Ten!
• Consists of individuals and communities that allow you to be raw, honest, authentic and vulnerable; they have your best interests at heart and lift you higher

Self-awareness is knowing:

• That no situation can cripple or paralyze you, knowing that a freedom that can never be taken away from you is the ability to control how you react to a situation
• That a healthy lifestyle is different and unique– a yoga class can be a sweat for one individual, meditation for another
• Both your strengths and vulnerabilities, and using this knowledge to develop resilience

Resilience is:

• Grit, grit is passion and perseverance combined; this requires sacrifice, hustle, having a clear vision of long term goals and never losing a positive attitude.