study motivation

pteridology: the study of ferns for myself and any other lil cuties with things to do and unharnessed desire to do them

[soberscientistlife]

[gaylor-moon]

[sayruq]

[pteridologie]

extremely frustrating to have people posting alleged facts with no sources about I/P. if you're not going to educate responsibly don't fucking post

[nativenews]

[jackietaylorsghost]

[darkeyedsister]

feeling the crushing weight of jewish history all by yourself beautiful?

[nativenews]

[fluoresensitive-deactivated2024]

Idk I just feel like your average middle class (yt) person is way too comfortable. The suffering of others should destroy you. All this bloodshed, all this sorrow is done in YOUR name, to protect the interest of the poor, innocent white person so you can be as cozy as possible. Journalists lie for you, laborers die for your fruit and electronics. The very phone you hold would not exist without child labor. At this moment, the US is choosing to support genocide to uphold white supremacy for YOU. The guilt should eat you. You should feel miserable and disgusted, and after you're done feeling miserable, transfer those emotions into doing something the people of color your existence effects. You have the privilege of turning away; don't do it.

[brownandwhat-deactivated2025060]

[albertserra]

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family (1985) dir. Per-Åke Holmquist

[mysharona1987]

[ghelgheli]

you construct the settler civilian so you can construct the settler civilized so you can define the settler colony as an inviolable space of civilization so you can designate the reintroduction of violence into the space as terrorism so you can paint the whole of the colonized subject as terrorists and, therefore, not civilians

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

[lingrix]

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

[eintsein]

Redefining My Bullet Journal System

The bullet journal is probably something you’re no stranger to. It’s been circulating around the internet for a while, and it’s one of the main subjects of studyblr posts. However, when I started college last semester, I found that I no longer relied on my bullet journal to organize my tasks and structure my responsibilities anymore. Instead, I tried out a bunch of productivity/task-organization apps: Taskade, Actions by Moleskine, Any.do, Todoist, Wunderlist. None of them seemed to have what I needed, so I decided to give the bullet journal method another try.

The first thing I reflected on was why I stopped in the first place. At first I thought it was because the method itself allowed for a lot of freedom and I’d get confused as to what things to include and how to structure everything. But then I realized that it was in fact because I had previously been bullet journaling for other people instead of myself. Since I had what one could call an ‘artsy bullet journal’, I tended to focus more on the artistic aspect so that it would get more likes and reblogs after I posted it, when I should have been focusing on how it can organize my life. I realized that the bullet journal is a tool; the focus should be on life itself, not the bullet journal, but you can use the bullet journal to add value to your life.

At the beginning of the year, I deconstructed my organizational needs and attempted to apply that to my bullet journal method. I stopped looking at other people’s bullet journals and started thinking about my own needs and preferences. I thought about how I would best organize my time so that I could accomplish all of the things I want to accomplish in the different aspects of my life.

Supplies

The fact that I only have 2 main supplies allows me to bullet journal anywhere, anytime.

The Structure

The Practice

Simply having the tool to organize your life isn’t enough - you should also have a practice, a habit, for using it.

Going Forward

One thing I’d like to work on is future logging. As of now, I think in terms of months, since the my main commitment at the moment is my education, and monthly planning has worked out for me. But I think if I’d like to tackle on larger projects - e.g. my YouTube channel that I just started - I’d need to do a lot more future logging.

Another useful thing I want to try out is to summarize my journal entries in the form of notes. Recently I’ve been audio journaling (15-20 minutes of me talking to myself), and it’s been pretty effective. However, I have no way of ‘skimming’ the entries like I would a written journal entry. Summarizing them would help me retain main ideas of each entry and remember the things I said that are or could potentially be important and useful.

Final Thoughts

If you don’t think your bullet journal is adding value to or improving productivity and organization in your life, I think you should reconsider the way you’re approaching the system. I found a method that works for me; yours might be different. While it can be beneficial to draw inspiration from other people, do whatever helps you the most, not what other people tell you you should be doing. After coming up with an appropriate structure, make sure you maintain the practice.  

[pteridologie]

forgive yourself and do better tomorrow!!!!