The Beginning of the End

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! With this being my first post I thought I would do a little introduction and what I hope to achieve with this throughout the semester. My name is Annie Bettag and I am a senior at Bradley University. I'm from St. Louis, Missouri and I will be graduating a year earlier than I should because of all the credit hours I had coming in to college. For those who saw that I was from St. Louis and immediately wondered what high school I went to, it was Ursuline Academy. For those who didn't wonder that, just disregard.

Anyway, this is the start of the end of my college career and I have had a blast so far, but the real work is just beginning. I plan to move back to St. Louis and work for a company where I can do some type of video production. I am a Television Arts Major and really enjoy creating and bringing visions to life. Eventually I would like to open my own production company and work to make St. Louis another hub for TV and movie making.

This semester I have many goals. First, I plan on starting a Fiverr account to gain more experience with editing and build on my portfolio. If anyone needs any editing done hit me up and I will do my best to work with you and help out! Next, I am very passionate about living a healthy lifestyle. I have been working out for about two years now and I have recently started to learn and perfecting healthy meals. I hope to build on my knowledge of exercise and food and grow in that area of my life both physically and mentally. Finally, I will be applying to jobs over this semester and I hope to write about that journey and potentially the outcome. These are a few of the things I will be talking about throughout this blog. There will be ups and down, serious and funny posts, personal and random, really anything that comes to mind that I believe is worthy to document. I look forward to writing about my adventures this semester and hope you all enjoy!

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Senioritis

We are at that point in the semester where we would normally be going on spring break and the senioritis is starting to sink in. It's the point where I am starting to burn out and I know a lot of other seniors are as well. I have been trying to come up with ways to keep the stress levels down and the motivation up in order to finish out the semester strong. There are a few things I have been doing. The first things I have done is continue to focus on working out and going even when I don't necessarily feel like it. Working out helps a lot with stress and on the days that I am tired and sore and just want to lay in bed, I make sure I at least go an do some cardio and ab workouts. Another thing I have done is yoga. I have been trying to stretch and meditate at night before bed to calm myself and relax before going to sleep. That has helped a lot with being able to sleep and not having my mind running a million miles a minute thinking about everything I have to do. Finally, since

Changing My Mindset

A lot has happened in the past year. At a glance, I might be compelled to rattle off all the terrible things that have happened in my life, in my family and friends lives, in the country, and even the world. That is all I have focused on. While some of those things might be a topic of a blog post in the future, that doesn't mean I am back tracking and going back to a negative mindset. I think writing about it is a great way to put your thoughts on paper, figure out how you truly feel, and then try and think of the good that came from it. There have been so many great things that have happened this year like starting my senior year of college, hitting the one year mark with my amazing boyfriend, getting to spend more time with my family, learning to cook amazing food, and focusing on exercise. Those are all incredible things! While some of that may seem small, I choose to make it big in my mind. I want to relish in it and be grateful for what I have. When I notice myself

Relaxation and Flexibility

Hello everyone! It's only Wednesday and it has already been a week. I really needed that snow day yesterday for a bit of a break but I could use about 10 more of those at this point. Yesterday as I was finishing my workout I was thinking about what I should write about this week. I realized that I'd like to share the thing that I have been doing at the end of my workouts and what I plan on doing a lot more throughout my day to calm down, get some peace, and relax. I used to be a gymnastic so I hold myself to way to high of a standard when it comes to fitness. I have lost a lot of flexibility since I retired from the sport and I have decided I want to gain that and some skills back this year. I went searching online for a new stretching routine to follow. I have one from my old practices but I wanted to switch it up a bit. I stumbled across a Youtuber named Mady Morrison. She makes videos on yoga, fitness, and lifestyle. I watched a few and really enjoyed it. Since I

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