Chocodemics

14| Year 9 | Australia | Claire | Professional Procrastinator | Everything with CHOCOLATE |

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50 Healthy, Productive & Fun Things You Can Do Without Looking at a Screen

It’s time for a screen cleanse! Get away from your phone, computer, or TV for just a minute if you can. Here are some ideas:

Cook a meal

Have coffee with a friend (alone is fine too)

Annotate a magazine article and feel very smart

Walk your dog

Cuddle your fur baby (whichever type you happen to own)

Take yourself for a walk and really notice things in your neighborhood

Journal or morning pages

Feng shui your home

Write a crappy or amazing poem (by hand)

Try out a new sport

Get your laundry done

Cull and organize your wardrobe

Make a mind map of the novel you want to write

Take a bath with salts or a bath bomb

Decorate your planner or bullet journal

Really groom yourself

Daydream

Yoga stretches

Adult. Coloring. Books.

Meditate for at least one minute

Find flowers and/or herbs to press in a book and/or dry

Go for a drive and blast your favorite songs

Treat yourself to a nice bottle of wine

Find a shady spot under a tree and just BE

Walk along the beach and look for shells

Swim in a crystal clear lake

Hike in the woods

Follow an essential oil recipe

Poke around the curios in a local new age shop

People watch

Visit the library & enjoy the serenity

Make your own matcha latte 

Rearrange your furniture

Write up a bucket list and try to check items some off

Buy a newspaper and challenge yourself to the crossword puzzle

Draw/sketch

Make flip book animation

Teach yourself to shuffle playing cards

Find an artistic medium you’ve never tried before

Play a board game

Pick wildflowers to put in a mason jar on your desk

Make new lists in your bullet journal

Organize your desk

Wash your sheets & make your bed

Wander around a museum for an afternoon

Shop at a farmer’s market

Repurpose old clothes (e.g. make a bag from old jeans)

Listen to vinyls and dance your pants off

Sort through your books and movie collections and donate titles you’ll probably never read/watch again

Have lunch somewhere with just a book or magazine as a dining companion

I hope some of these help free you from the ball and chain of technology! Now put down your phone or shut down your computer, and get out there!

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Reminders:

Do not rely on social media for validation. These likes don’t determine your worth.

Want revenge? Move on. Be indifferent.

Detach from toxic people in your life. It’s okay, I promise.

I know you a lot of you put others first, but honey I promise it’s more than okay to prioritize yourself.

“Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean me first, it means me too.”

Respect yourself.

Let go of what you can’t control, don’t let yourself worry and stress over things out of reach.

If it won’t affect you in a year, it doesn’t matter now.

Drama is unnecessary, regardless of what it’s about. Drop it and move on honey. You’re already twelve steps ahead of those still being petty and bitter. Those are ugly traits.

You never know what someone else is going through, try to be more compassionate, empathetic, and open minded, regardless of who you’re talking to.  

It’s okay to be a work-in-progress, not all masterpieces were constructed overnight.

Don’t settle for less than you deserve.

Drink some tea. Drink some water. Drink some coffee. Drink something that’ll hydrate you and/or calm you.

You’re more powerful than you think.

If you have an argument with someone, sometimes it’s best to let it go. Don’t waste your positive energy on people that only bring you negativity.

On that note, take note of who makes you feel negatively, and remove yourself from those relationships.

Take care of yourself.

You’re enough.

You’re loved.

Your well being is important.

You are important.

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Achieving your full academic potential: Things to Avoid Doing

Things you may want to avoid doing in the future. 

 Doing, wait, not doing these things always works for me. 

Staying up late. 

 Sleep is yes.  And as my speech coach puts it “there are only so many all nighters a person can pull before they just can’t”.  Not only will staying up uber-late make the next day a battle between you an a surprisingly pillow-like desktop, if you’re tired, your work probably won’t be the your best.

Over-scheduling. 

 It’s easier to look at a schedule with 3-4 assignments than it is to look at one with 9-10.  When scheduling, if you have a plethora of assignments, prioritize.  Write down the most important assignments, and leave any others off the page or in the margins.  You only have so many hours in the day and it’s better to complete the most important tasks than none at all.

Pro-tip: The Pareto Principle.  The Pareto principle revolves around the 80%-20% ratio.  Allow me to explain, if you have 10 pieces of work, there are probably only two of them that will take up 80% of the work.  And 8 of them that will take up 20% of the work.  The key to prioritizing is finding those two assignments (or however many = 20% in your workload) and doing them first

Working in bed or laying down.

 NONONONONONONONONONO.  This is how “cat-naps” happen.  You swear that you’re going to get straight to work and then your phone on the bedside table lights up.  It’s too hard to organize a book, a notebook, and a laptop on a bed without moving the laptop off of your lap.  So why not check it?  

Working in bed helps the boogeyman grow under it.

Over-working.  

If you take on more than you can handle, you will not get the results you want.  It’s perfectly alright to challenge yourself.  In fact, it’s great.  But, there is a difference between being ambitious and stressing yourself out.  If it’s too much, go back to the Pareto principle and prioritize. 

Drinking excessive amounts of coffee and energy drinks. (Especially in the afternoon.)  

One (maybe two, if you ordered a tall) cups of coffee in the morning is fine.  But in the afternoon or the evening, stick to exercise, healthy snacks, and naps.  Sugary energy drinks as well as coffee that contain caffeine can speed up your heart rate, cause stress, and irregular breathing patterns.  If you become addicted to caffeine these things will accelerate and can end up hurting you detrimentally.

Over-using productivity apps.  

Productive apps are awesome, if used correctly, don’t abuse them.  It was difficult for me to use productivity apps on my phone at first because the other things on my phone would distract me.  If you plan to use productivity apps on you phone and computer make sure that you have the self-control needed o use them properly.

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Those are the general ones, these are a bit more subject specific

Math/science

Falling behind. 

 In other classes falling behind is not recommended, but is usually fixable by reading a few chapters or asking a friend for notes.  Because of arithmetic’s complex nature that relies not only on facts, but applying them it is very difficult to master one a concept while you’re supposed to be mastering another.  Often, learning one key concept can help you with many other assignments, not learning key concepts can make those other assignments 10x harder.

Receiving low homework scores.  

In all of the math classes I’ve been in, the homework scores were more of your grade than your test homework.  Always turn in your homework, even if it feels impossible, try your best, and never leave your paper blank.  Even if you got all of the answers wrong, many teachers will give you serious credit for trying and failing rather than just failing.

Learn everything from the teacher. 

 There are a plethora of online math resources that are awesome, and math teachers usually only teach one method of solving a problem.  Try Khan Academy , For Dummies, or IXL.  Or look around a bit, there are a lot of other great sites, those are just my favorites.

Learn everything. (This is usually for science.) 

 In science (especially in biology and Earth sciences.) you are introduced to a myriad of concepts and vocabulary words that might seem like too much to memorize.  Don’t.  Look at what your teacher puts emphasis on and memorize that. Also, if you are using a textbook, there is a good chance that the textbook is filled with notes on the ‘key concepts’ or learning requirements for each chapter.  These are also things that you should attempt to memorize.

English/writing/history/ other humanities

Not develop an opinion. (Especially in history) 

 If there’s anything a english/ writing/ history teacher loves, it’s an opinionated student.  Textbooks give you facts and figures, and you can interpret them however you want.  So, do just that.  This will show your teacher not only that you are interested in his or her subject, but that you are engaged in the material that they gave you.

Ignore teacher comments. (No matter how small.) 

 It isn’t fun to read nit-picky comments about your work.  Especially on your writing.  But look at them.  Even if you receive a good grade on a paper, applying corrections on your next one will ensure that you get a better grade the next time.  

Staying quiet in class.  

I understand that for some people this one is hard, for some people this one is practically impossible.  But teachers love it.  If you can, voice your opinion and answer questions in class as frequently as possible.  I’ve even received extra credit for being verbally engaged in class more than other students.

Not trying to learn everything.  

This one is a lot like the ‘not ignoring teacher comments’.  A lot of information slips through the cracks (especially in english)  that pops back up on exams.  Because most of what is learned in an english class is not drilled into you like it would be in a math or science class, to do well, you have to drill yourself.  I’ve been told the difference between ‘affect’ and ‘effect’ plenty of times, but I didn’t truly learn it until this year when I had to study it for an exam.

Pro-tip: Don’t challenge your teachers.  They determine your grades.  Momentary satisfaction is not worth a bad grade.

Hope this was useful!

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If you’re looking to stop procrastinating, this is your sign.

warning: pretty blunt.

STOP. STOP PROCRASTINATING RIGHT NOW.

And I know you’re looking at your screen like, “:^) haha yeah I’ll do it later” NO YOU WON’T! THIS IS YOUR SIGN TO GET OFF YOUR REAR AND DO SOMETHING.

You’re doing NOTHING when you have PILES AND PILES OF WORK THAT WON’T JUST DO ITSELF. Every second you look somewhere other than your work is a second WASTED.

I can gaurantee you don’t have all A’s, and obviously you’re not trying your best if there’s work left to do that WILL impact your grade if you don’t do it, and do it well. If you were trying your best, that would be a different story.

But just not doing work because you don’t feel like it isn’t acceptable.

You’re wasting time. There’s a test coming, homework coming, classwork coming.

You won’t know what to do if you don’t get off your caboose and do something about it.

You don’t want to be stuck at 11:00 doing homework again. You don’t want to wake up at 4:00 just to finish what you couldn’t finish at 11:00 last night. Remember the last time you ran on 5 hours of sleep? You looked and felt like a walking garbage can.

Stop copying the homework during lunch. Why are you putting yourself through unnecessary stress? There’s 12 hours that you can be doing things during the day.

You can spend thirty minutes out of your entire day to secure tomorrow.

If you want to get a good night’s sleep to actually be able to do well in class tomorrow and not feel like utter trash, do your work NOW.

No, it’s not fun. But you have to do it. You need sleep, and you need less stress, and you deserve it. You don’t deserve just barely surviving.

Do your work.

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Morning Habits Worth Starting (Especially for College)

Give yourself enough time to get ready before you have to leave in the morning. For me this means setting my alarm about an hour before the time that I have to get my foot out the door. Eat a proper breakfast, do a little stretching, figure out your plan for the day. Having a slower paced morning is a lot more relaxing, and you can get your day started correctly.

Drink water first thing. I used to be a pretty heavy coffee drinker in the mornings in high school, but I realized that I could get away with a lot less caffeine if I started my morning off with a nice glass of cold water. You’re probably dehydrated after sleeping and water helps wake you up. 

Make your bed. Making your bed is a visual reminder that sleeping time is over and that it’s time to get up! If I have a messy bed, I want to climb in and snuggle back into my blankets. This is especially true in the winters when it’s cold and dark. The movement also helps you wake up, which brings me to my next point:

Move! Your! Body! You don’t necessarily have to run through an entire yoga routine or go for a run (but hey, props to you if you do), but getting some movement in your mornings will help you wake up. I like to stretch a little bit, warm up my joints, maybe loosen up my limbs. It helps to get your blood flowing. 

Open your curtains. In the winter it might be kind of dark and depressing where you live, so this isn’t always something recommended. I like to open my curtains when it’s sunny out so I can get some natural light, which helps your circadian rhythm so you wake up better - and fall asleep at night better. 

Do something productive before your class begins. If your first class is super early, this might not apply. But I find it tremendously helpful to get something done, whether it be a flash card set, a work out, or a load of laundry, before my first class. It’ll get you into a productive mood for the rest of the day, and even if you aren’t productive for whatever reason, you can go to sleep knowing that at least you got something done that day!

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open for hq!

my first ever infographic! this is obviously my own very simple note-taking style and may not work for everyone but i hope it helps!

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me: can remember lyrics from the 2007-2011 pop classics

also me: can't remember what happened in a lecture last week

[emmastudies]

2018 Student Guide

With the start of 2018 well underway, I wanted to make a masterpost full of links on how to adjust your perspective with studying. Perhaps you want to become a better student overall, improve your focus or get into your dream college, there is always something we want to do better! Hopefully these tips will make 2018 your best academic year yet!

Organisation

2018 student planner

planner brand recommendations

planner vs bullet journal: pros and cons

how to set up a bullet journal

setting up a digital bullet journal

bullet journal spread ideas

bullet journal decoration hacks

bullet journal brand recommendations

whats in my bag

my favourite stationery

back to school basic supplies

how to improve your handwriting

handwriting font suggestions

balancing study and work

desk/workspace essentials

student finance tips

2018 monthly planner printables

Productivity

productivity and time management applications

how to remove distractions

types of procrastination and how to deal with them

google chrome new tab options for improved productivity

10 small ways to improve your productivity

applications to block websites

no distraction writing applications

100 days of productivity challenge

how to focus in class

how to stick to a schedule

how to stay alert

how to build self-discipline

how to organise for exams

my after school routine

how to reduce perfectionist ideas 

Motivation

what to do when you’ve tried everything

how to gain back motivation

motivational monday printables

how to stop avoiding studying

what to do when you feel exhausted before studying

how I stay motivated

tips on maintaining motivation

how to start a studyblr

how to utilise your studyblr for motivation

how to set up a studygram

dealing with competitive people

how to bounce back from ‘failure’

how to learn from a lower than expected grade

how to structure a weekly review

how to deal with a difficult class

things to do during holidays/study vacations

Studying

applications for students

how to take effective class or lecture notes

how to take notes from a textbook

how to prepare for exams

my note-taking method

my notebook system

how to write faster

how to study more effectively

how to summarise information

how I organise my binders

good habits to implement

how to study (my method)

how to revise from notes

how to organise a colour code

how to memorise information effectively

how to memorise quotes

how to use flashcards

how I reduce waffle and narration in essays

tips for essay writing

how to find out where you’re going wrong

how I prepare to study

different ways to study

how to study during the semester

how to annotate a book/novel/etc

how to get ahead in school

how to break up a large textbook

studying as a visual learner

how to practice and present a speech

mindmapping apps and extensions

how to deal with online classes

how to study a language

how to study maths

how to improve group assessments/projects

Self Care

how to improve your sleep schedule

how to wake up earlier

how to study when sick

over-coming self doubt

dealing with stress

how to balance studying and anxiety

how to balance studying and depression

apps that help with depression

ways to reward your productivity

my favourite tv shows

my favourite podcasts

ways to use empty notebooks

how to be more sociable

tips for getting a job

advice for the first day

things (personal, academic, etc) to do every week

Printables

2018 monthly planner printables

2018 student printables (includes 2018 overview + calendar, daily + weekly + monthly planner, 30 habit tracker, class overview and timed worklog)

weekly study schedule

weekly planner

weekend planner

daily planner

assessment planner

subject to do list planner

study session planner

exam revision printable pack (includes revision checklist, formulas + definitions sheet, essay + project planner, weekly schedule)

note-taking printables (includes dotted, grid, lined, cornell method)

organic chemistry printable

literary techniques and devices sheet

100 days of productivity tracker printable 

ultimate student organiser pack

study and revision pack

2018 student planner

2018 weekly planner

pomodoro tracker

grade and assessment planner pack

essay guide and planner pack

productivity planner

student reading journal printable

student finance planner

goal and habit planner

customisable weekly study planner

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Week 3 weekly spread 12/2/18 - 18/2/18

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consider this an early congratulations, i know you can do it. ; i have a mock entrance exam on sunday and i am rlly nervous :’0 trying to stay positive !!

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10 big academic reminders

1. there is no shame in asking for help (academic, emotional, or mental) 

2. there is no shame in going to tutoring 

3. there is no shame in getting Bs, Cs, Ds, or Fs 

4. there is no shame in not knowing what you want to study 

5. there is no shame in having a job 

6. there is no shame in struggling in a so-called “easy course” 

7. there is no shame in withdrawing from a course you don’t feel comfortable in 

8. there is no shame in changing your major 

9. there is no shame in not taking a full load of classes in a semester 

10. there is no shame in realizing your school may not be for you

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2018 new years giveaway! and a thank you for 15k followers! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و

hi guys!! this new year i wanted to give back for all the love i’ve received so far :’-) thank you to everyone who stuck with me even when i stopped updating for a while and to all my new followers too! 

this is what you get!

leuchtturm1917 dotted 90 x 150 mm

muji A5 lined notebook

muji 5 pack lined B5 bind notebooks

muji sticky notes 30 x 10 mm

rhodia graph paper pad 5 x 5

2 muji 0.5 gel ink pens

2 hi-tec-c 0.3 gel ink pens

2 pilot light frixion highlighters (in pink and blue)

#991 tombow dual brush pen

3 cute sticky tabs

3 daiso key ring memo pads

pack of pink envelopes

5 mint envelopes

1 roll of mt washi tape (that i have and love!)

2 rolls of floral washi tape (i threw this in b/c i got more from my purchase on aliexpress!)

i’ll throw in other cute gifts like makeup and stickers too!!

here are the rules!

must be following me since this is for my followers :’-)

must reblog this post at least once! but please do not spam your followers!

likes work as bookmarks, but don’t count as entries!

you can also get an extra entry on instagram by following the how to enter on the giveaway post :’-)

will ship internationally !!!!

must be 18+ or have parents’ permission!

giveaway ends on february 4 at 12am PST !

the winner will be chosed randomly!!

i wish everyone the best of luck! may 2018 be kind to you and may it be fruitful and joyous! thank you again for 15k!!

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Same, but different – 2017 Monthly Spreads

Winter ➡️ Spring ➡️ Summer ➡️ Fall

Which one is your favorite? 🤔😀

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Hello, people! The time has come: I will teach you the secret to study for three days and remember everything for your test. This is a hardcore studying session so I would recommend to only do it when you are truly freaking the fuck out. Now, I must tell you: It’s gonna involve some hard work, so sit comfortably because we’re about to start:

REMINDER: YOU DON’T NEED TO DO THIS IN A ROLL. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE DURING THE  COURSE OF THE DAY. 

REMINDER 2: REMEMBER TO EAT, DRINK WATER AND GET ENOUGH REST. YOU DON’T NEED TO FORGET ABOUT YOUR HEALTH IN ORDER TO GET BETTER GRADES. 

DAY 1

First reading of your main textbook

Second reading + highlighting 

Research more about the topic (internet, other books, talk to your friends, etc)

Resume everything (notes)

Do a mind map of main points 

If what you’re studying needs something to be memorized “word by word” (such as: meanings, processes, references, chemical reactions, etc), write it down and put it on your wall. You’re gonna read it several times during the day. 

Write down the topics and key words on a reference paper (you’re gonna take this paper everywhere, forcing your memory to expand from those simple key words) 

Review your notes 

Do ten exercises (questions)

Review your notes + exercises 

Watch a video class 

You’re done for today. Good job. Now rest, tomorrow is a new day. 

DAY 2

Review your notes

Read them out loud

Read them again, but this time record yourself

Listen to it. Twice. 

Review your notes before bed

DAY 3

Review your notes + listen to your recordings from yesterday

Do 30 exercises (questions)

Review notes + exercises 

Listen to your recordings again

Review your notes one more time.

FANTASTIC JOB! Now it’s your time to rest. If you’re feeling like it, read your notes one more time before bed. 

One more time, this is a heavy studying session, and not supposed to be done all the time. Remember to take care of your health and take several breaks during the day. If you don’t need, there is no need to do everything listed here. 

Good luck!!! 

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I’ve seen a lot of posts about this, but I felt like they were very vague, and I just found out how to actually do this, so here’s a step-by-step guide on how to actually take notes from your textbook.

Read the chapter/section through I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!!!1!1!! Before you do anything, read through the text and understand it properly, do the exercises and Make. Sure. You. Understand. What. You’re. Reading. There’s no point making notes when you have no idea what you’re doing.

Highlight key words Note: key words, not phrases, words. When you’re doing this, read it ‘out loud’ in your brain or actually read it out loud. Think of what you would emphasise if you were teaching this material to someone, or thing of what your teacher/professor would emphasise in a lecture. Highlight these emphasised words. If there’s a really really really important phrase, sure, highlight it, but make sure that you do this very sparingly.

Using those key words as a focus point, create questions from the information. Rather than reading the text again and then making questions, look at the key word and make your question focus on that specific word. For example, if the phrase is ‘An impure substance starts to melt at a lower temperature than the pure substance’, and you’ve highlighted ‘lower’, your question should be How do impurities affect the melting point of a substance? The answer to this question is that key word.

Simply answer those questions when you make your notes. I’ve been facing a huge problem with my notes- they have large blocks of text which don’t have enough information in them. When you make your notes, have it so that the answers to your questions are the content in your notes. Include diagrams, statistics and stuff, but for the content itself, use these answers. This will prevent large blocks of text and will make your notes much more info-packed.

I hope this helps! Happy studying!

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May your 2018 be filled with positivity, happiness, success and love

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