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President, PRISM, University of Minnesota

Ernest Comer III is the president of PRISM at the University of Minnesota and a senior at the University of Minnesota. He’s working toward a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Communication Studies and a minor in African and African American Studies. He is developing a state chapter of the Stop the Violence movement. Ernest has been an adolescent mentor in the Pediatrics Department at the U and has hosted local television and radio shows to showcase young talent.

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Life's Balance

Balance

Last update: October 30, 2009 - 10:35 PM

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From laundry, to dishes, to car washes, to just making it to work on time. Not to mention grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning, how could anyone possibly be expected to get things done at all let alone get anything done well.

And on top of that to even consider the possibility of trying to raise a child is just asinine.

So, how do we explain the anomalies that get it all done? Is it that those Super-moms&Super-dads really exist? Do they all have a social club where they meet on weekends to share best practices?

As a freshman in the workforce I am taken back by the amount of responsibility I'm faced with outside of a 40hr minimum work week. Lets all put our minds together and figure out how the Super-folks do it. Because, honestly, I get sleepy from time to time.

When I was in school, I was enthused by the work I was doing so the excitement of getting something accomplished is what kept me moving. I find myself now struggling to find that enthusiasm, so maybe its just that I have to readjust my perspective on the work I do and  realize the things that I'm accomplishing to help me stay motivated enough to wait for the pots and pans to soak before scrubbing them clean.

Somewhere in the hazy period of one of those sleepy times I concocted  a conspiracy theory: Only the lazy survive. If you find a way to tap into just the right number of resources in just the right manner you could essentially delegate all of your life's work to other people around you rather than actually doing any real work.

So people, I'm curious is there anyone among you who admits to being the lazy survivor? Are you living the good life while the people around you stare in awe asking how you do it all not realizing that the small favor that they do for you is only a small piece of the complex machine that you've built that gets each of your responsibilities taken care of without you having to lift a finger?

Come clean!! or tell the rest of us how you really do it...please :)

Proverb.

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