Well Being is defined in the dictionary as “The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy”. Now, I’m no genius so no one has to agree with me but I am going to have to disagree with the dictionary on this one. I feel like if you are reflecting on your life and realize that you are COMPLETELY comfortable, healthy, AND happy, it is probably time to challenge yourself. I feel like continuous growth is important and contributes to a great leader (in my opinion). The best way to learn and grow is to do things that challenge you and require you to step outside of your comfort zone. It is in these situations that you get the chance to see yourself in a new light and apply new lessons to everyday life
Well being covers a number of different areas. There is mental well being, physical well being, emotional well being, etc.. and when you are in college every aspect of well being is tested and pushed to the limits. Coming in as a freshman to college, it is easy to get caught up in the atmosphere of college. There is so much freedom, so many food options, 
and so many things to do and it is easy to just want to do everything or, on the flip side of that, nothing at all. I was a freshman that wanted to do everything. I wanted to attend every event and join every club. In all of the hustle and bustle of college, it was easy to forget about the most important thing.. ME. Before I knew it, I had to balance going to class, studying, and going to all of these club meeting and events. I created an environment for myself that was unhealthy. I was only getting about 4 hours of sleep a night but I ate a lot! BUT what I was eating was really unhealthy, it was things that could be grabbed “on the go” which should be code word for “really unhealthy”. I didn’t realize what I was doing to myself until I started getting more involved in the LEAD office.
There are two activities that really stick out to me. The first is a Student Leader Well Being Inventory. It is designed to have student leaders on campus sit down and actually take a look at the things they put the most time into. It is a pretty thick packet that consists of different categories like physical well being, psychological well being, emotional well being, etc. After I went throughout the packet and tallied up all of my answers, the results showed that I did not take care of myself the way that I should. I realized that I needed to sleep more (don’t we all), I needed to take the time to eat better, and I needed to sit and reflect periodically to ensure that I was digesting all of the new information I was learning everyday. Another activity that we did in the LEAD office that really sticks out to me is one that Lisa (Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the LEAD Office) lead. We took a long piece of string and we had 24 beads to represent the number of hours in a day and with the beads we would set aside the amount of hours in a day we spent doing things (ex: If I feel like I spend two hours out go my day on social media, I would set aside two of the same color beads). On one side of the string you would put the beads in order of how you feel you currently your time throughout the day, on the other side you filled the string with beads that represented the amount of time you wish you could spend on different things. At the end, you would have one side that represents how you actually spend your time and one that shows how you would like to spend your time. The idea of this activity is to have a constant reminder of the things you find most important and the things you actually want to spend the most time on. It is important to prioritize and it is even more important to make sure that you are at the top of your list of priorities.