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[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

an ultimate guide to crafting your daily schedule 👀✨

‘Ello, mate! It’s werelivingarts and I’m here with a simple guide to manage your time and prioritize your tasks with only 3 steps ~ 

Before planning anything, For me (you guys might have different approach), I find recognizing my energy level pattern really helpful because I can prioritize tasks and get the done in my most productive time rather than forcing myself to cram for homework after midnight. 🌚🌝

I start planning my day by dumping all of the tasks I remember down to to-do list using Bear, and then I would organize these tasks if they are daily, weekly or monthly task on Edison app – which also allows time blocking. After that, I would prioritize tasks daily on app Success. (This is not ad, this is just helpful apps that I use). 😎

Hope you find this helpful in some ways! Thank you for reading!  ❤️💜💙

[thetinypsychologist]

MOTIVATION VS SELF-DISCIPLINE

When studying, most people try to find motivation thinking that this will get them through their study session, or they will see their failure as a result of a lack of motivation. But motivation isn’t always what we need - what do you do on the days you have no motivation? This is why we need self-discipline.

MOTIVATION VS SELF DISCIPLINE

Motivation - a willingness to do something. It is the set of psychological forces that compel you to take action. A goal or reward that you look forward to that will encourage you to study - while this is useful, what happens on a day when you just don’t feel like studying?

Self-Discipline - making yourself do things you know you should do when you don’t want to. Being trained to routinely study regardless of how unmotivated you are - this is what will get you out of bed on a day you don’t feel like studying.

So if motivation is ‘why we should do something’ - self-discipline is more ‘what to do next’.

HOW TO BE SELF-DISCIPLINED

Make a commitment with yourself that you will make studying as your habit. This is super important. Commit yourself to make this as your new habit. Don’t half-ass any of these suggestions or any other suggestions that other people give. Don’t give yourself silly, illegitimate excuses in the process. For this, you can do it by remind yourself on what your long-term goals in life are. Or if they don’t sound rewarding enough, remind yourself what failure feels like/ could feel like.

Set yourself a routine and stick to it

Never have a zero day - 10 minutes is better than nothing!! Do flashcards from your bed or watch youtube ted talks if you can’t physically study. This will help help develop a routine and make it easier for you to cope. Also, by studying everyday your brain will know that the content you are learning should be stored as long-term information so this will benefit you in the long run! However I do want to stress not to force yourself if you don’t have the capacity / energy for it. Take care of yourself too.

Avoid long breaks. Unless you know that taking an hour long break means only an hour, then you can ignore this. But fo the majority of us, once we’ve taken a while out of studying it can be hard to get back into it again. One minute you’re taking a 20 minute break for a snack and some phone time and the next thing you know you’re on Youtube and four hours have passed! To avoid this, try stick to shorter breaks - five or ten minutes for a snack break, toilet break and to check any phone messages. A good method to try for this is the Pomodoro Method!

Build on your productivity, not your failures.

If you come from a past of procrastinating and now feel motivated to change and discipline yourself, do NOT try to do everything at once. Start things slow and in steps.

Set yourself smaller deadlines for your goals like monthly and weekly deadlines - e.g. if you are doing a project, due 27th June, set personal deadlines, like have the introduction written by the 8th, have your literature review written by the 15th, have project complete by the 25th. 

Break down the things that you must do into smaller, concrete activities and put those smaller activities in that to-do list; allocate specific time periods to do each smaller activities and put it the to-do list as well; set an alarm reminder for each smaller activities. Say you have to study for English on Tuesday, because for whatever reasons you just decided to dedicate your time this Tuesday to study English. However, I’d suggest that you break down that specific activity (or “daily goal”) before putting it in your to-do list. So, instead of just putting “study for Physics”, try putting “read and highlight Chapter 9″, because putting very general/broad activity like “study English” can actually make you too confused on where and how to start doing it, and make you very prone to distractions in the process. 

Know your limits. Self-discipline isn’t doing as much as you can until you break - it’s about having control, knowing what you can realistically manage and getting that done.

Give yourself rewards! I love to have something to look forward to as I get work done! This means mixing motivation and self-discipline. I tell myself after this lecture I can have an animal crossing break or check some messages etc. 

Track your progress – don’t forget to put a checklist on your to-do list after accomplishing a task. It would relieve your stress a bit and motivate you to continue doing the remaining activities on your to-do list. 

Remove distractions from your study space! Personally, if my phone is out and I notice a notification…I’m gonna check it. It’s human nature! So to combat this, I use apps like Forest that force me to stay within the app while I study. If I know I might get hungry during a study session I’ll keep a little snack by my desk so I don’t have to get up and somehow find something else to distract me.

Just do it isn’t that easy. I find to get myself in a ‘work boss’ mood I need to feel good about myself so I put on a nice outfit and maybe some eyeliner and hype myself up so I know I can do my tasks and get stuff done! It feels so much better than lazing in my pyjamas trying to study.

Be patient. It’s going to be a rough journey, it’s going to be hard but you’ve got this! Take it one step at a time. Start off by completing one task a day, then move to two, then three, and the next thing you know, you’ll have a regular routine where you will constantly be ticking off your to-do list everyday! But remember to be kind to yourself, know when your body is not in the right state of health to study and don’t force it. Only force yourself to a limit, you’ll know when to stop and that’s okay. Just try again when you feel better! Your health is much more important!

[langblrwhy]

Me during the whole day: I want to do a total of 0 (zero) things

Me at night: I need to get my life together, I want to be fluent in 3 languages, practice different art styles, learn about the modern civilization and economy and politics and watch a bunch of movies and write and read a couple of books and do e v e r y t h i n g.

[bennistudies-deactivated2023112]

things I learned & need to remember

it’s been 4 years since I started uni in fall ‘15. it took me a while to get there, but I handed in my bachelor thesis and now I’m starting my master of education program. so I thought I’d share some things that I learned through the years and things I should write on my wall so I don’t forget my own advice.

some of these are things I had to learn more than once, some I learned from mistakes and some were said to me as advice. they are in no particular order and you’re very welcome to add your own!

it’s okay to need help. you don’t have to deal with everything on your own.

ask for help before it’s too late. if you don’t get a topic ask a classmate to explain it or ask your teacher for more eyplanatory material that same lesson. if you’re running late on your term paper bc of personal or topic related issues talk to your teacher.

if there are tutorials for your class take advantage of the extra lesson. tutors often explain in a more down-to-earth style, this will make it easier for you. plus, they often provide practice material for your exam or even old exam questions. they work closely with the teachers, so they might hint at exam questions.

go to class every damn time. unless you’re ill (mental illness counts too!!) or some personal catastrophe happens, go to class. there’s umbrellas and rain jackets, snow boots and winter coats. if it’s safe to leave the house weather is not an excuse not matter how comfy your bed is.

make a friend in every class. you don’t have to become best friends and you probably won’t stay friends after the term, but if you’re ill they can catch you up or provide materials (not all classes have arrived in the digital age, sadly). classes that are mandatory but suck will be more fun if you have someone to suffer with.

it’s okay if not all friendships last beyond the end of term. sometimes you just become friends for the benefit of knowing someone in class. sometimes you become friends because you see each other regularly and it kinda fades out during break. that happens and it has nothing to do with your qualities as a friend, that’s just life.

it’s okay to feel lowkey heart broken if you hoped for more than a just-for-the-term-friendship. this can hurt just as much as every other heartache. it sucks, I know, so feel those feelings, but then move on. you have more important things to do.

be careful who you talk to about your term paper plans. my topic once got stolen, because I told a girl in my class (I elaborted on it a lot, yes, I definitely wanted to impress her) and she immediately went to my teachers office hours and got the topic secured for her paper. boy was I surprised when my teacher told me that someone else came to her with almost the exact wording. my new topic was better suited for me in the end, but still.

reach out when things get tough. people might not have the answers to your problems, but talking about them makes it easier to tackle them. if they’re your friends/family/loved ones you’re not bothering them. promise. they’ll probably feel appreciated that you trust them so much (I always do).

don’t expect shit from university offices. if you should hear about your grade/appilcation/etc after 3 weeks, call after week 4 not week 8. if they tell you you don’t need that latin class for your masters get that information signed as proof.

trust your friends, (chosen) family and other loved ones when they tell you they love you no matter what. your academic success does not define your worthiness of love and affection. if someone treats you like that they do not love you the right way, I’m sorry.

you will find friends and a chosen family who love you the way you are not despite but because of your little quirks. uni is more diverse than it seems in white upper class college movies and you will find your kind of people. be patient, but dare to reach out.

friendships do require work, but it shouldn’t be a struggle. most of the time they start because you reached out and told someone how much you like their *insert thing you’re also interested in* and then you go from there. keep a balance of reaching out to each other, listen and remember that it’s not about seeing them by coincidence (aka classes) every day, but because you make time for each other.

read that damn department newsletter. there might be job offers (uni pays well, my dudes!) or annoucements for free events, goodie bags, studying abroad programs, etc. otherwise you might miss a really cool event, conference, speech or lecture set. I missed a non-credit lecture set about harry potter once bc I didn’t read that newsletter. a whole lecture set on harry fucking potter. the agony.

read non-mandatory additional reading only for these reasons: a) you got all mandatory reading and assignments and study notes for all classes done; b) you want to write a term paper about that topic (maybe save it for when you’re actually working on it, if a) doesn’t apply); you can fit it in your schedule and want to impress your teacher, bc you’ll write a term paper for that class. some additonal things might be more fun than your assigned readings for other classes, but you need to prioritise the less fun things sometimes.

need to hand in a class protocol, give a short presentation, etc to be admitted for the exam or term paper? get the second to fourth time slot. being the first is always hard, so if you’re not that confident, maybe stay away from that, but get it done before the second half of the semester starts. your stress level will rise with exams and term papers coming up, so having these things out of the way is a huge relief. plus, the bar won’t be that high yet if you weren’t given specifics and you can learn from the mistakes (aka what your teacher criticized) of those before you.

be brave, participate in class. you are not under-qualified and most teachers love a good in-class discussion. even mandatory boring classes will be more bearable that way.

there is no shame in talking to a mental health professional. you don’t need to be ill enough or sad enough or messed up enough (what a bullshit concept in society). if you’re struggling with pressure, with focus, with panic attacks or whatever, reach out. talking to someone who is in a neutral position, not involved in your personal or academic life and actually qualified to help you deal with that will help. it might be scary, but it is worth it.

[nefelibatastudy]

January 29, 2021 | health assessment notes and glimpse of my journal.

it’s been a while since i’ve posted some updates in my account due to hecticness, i got to perform my first ever return demonstration, and i got 1.00 which is awesome for a first timer like me. i’m actually pretty nervous whenever i thought about the up-coming week since i know it will be very busy and i don’t know, i’ll just maybe get myself through it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[questionablespecies]

If y'all like Stardew Valley, then please back Coral Island if you can! It looks super promising 💕

[nerdastically]

3/ ∞ studyblr phone wallpapers please reblog or like this post if you like/save/use them, thank you :) 

[bulletnotestudies]

*click for better quality* (transcript under the cut)

My other masterposts: • extensions pt.1  • study sounds • dealing with failure • how to gain traction • how to study when you’re struggling

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[coralstudiies]

wuhuuuu these are great! definitely gonna check out toucan and mercury reader

[thearialligraphyproject]

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+ bonus

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**If you know other helpful sites, please send me a message so I can add it to the list!

[violetsnotebook-archive]

15.11.20 / what are you up to today? i have to be out and about this afternoon so i’m rushing to get everything done before i leave. we’re halfway through november friends! hope you’ve had a good month so far ♡

[thestrawberrynight]

living in the house surrounded by big garden, the smell of rain and leaves, coloured raincoats, healing spells, spicy potions against flu and cold, reading books under the blanket, drinking hot black tea and preparing pumpkin pie on Sunday for closest friends

[violetsnotebook-archive]

05.11.20 / working on my russian cursive today. i actually never learned cursive when i picked up cyrillic the first time. if anyone could give me feedback on my handwriting, i’d greatly appreciate it!! hope your thursday is going well so far. the week is almost over. hang in there ♡

[violetsnotebook-archive]

my october in photos / …remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. – e.e. cummings

[music-of-learning]

From Beginner to Intermediate: an intense plan for advancing in language

Introduction

I've studied Spanish at school for 3 years and now I'm at a low B1 level. I can actually understand pretty well while listening or reading but I can't communicate fluently.

This plan will include vocabulary build up, some grammar revision, a lot of listening, reading and writing. And could be used for the most languages, not only Spanish.

Plan

Every day:

Conjugate one verb in present, past and future tenses

Make a list about 10 - 30 words long

Create flashcards with them and start learning them (I use Quizlet for flashcards)

Revise yesterday's set of flashcards

2-3 times a week:

Read an article or a few pages from a book

Write a few sentences about anything in your target language

Listen to one episode of podcast (at least one)

Once a week or every two weeks:

Watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movie as the language used there is easier. You can watch with subtitles

Grammar exercises

Translate some short text

Once a month:

Write something longer, like an essay or report, on chosen topic

Additionally:

Talk to yourself, to your friends, to your pets

Text with someone

Look at the transcription while listening to the podcast for second time

Repeat what you hear (in podcast or movie)

Check words you don't know from the listening and reading

Read out loud

Listen to music in your target language - you can even learn the text and sing along

Watch YouTube in your target language

Change your phone language to the one you're learning

Think in you target language!!!

***This is very intense plan for self-learners, you don't have to do all of these things in the given time. Adjust it to your own pace. I'll try to stick to this, if I have enough time.***

[the-messyfrenchie]

(Messy) desk situation: trying to stay hot and cozy while studying for finals

[academla]

The Really Big Studying Masterpost

I couldn’t get it together enough to do a graphic or anything, so here goes. Sorry this is massively long but hopefully it will be helpful!

Studying

Review season printables

The lazy kid’s guide to study guides

Studying tips for university

Non-cutesy study tips

How I make my study guides

My study process

Effective study routine for intense classes

How to “study”

50 things to do between your study sessions

Studying: how tos, advice, & tips

Learning styles and study tips

Motivation + tests/studying

My study tips tag

This has some stuff on exams

My exam tag

The pomodoro method

“How can I focus/study effectively?”

Get started studying

General exam/studying tips

Learning styles and study tips

Memorization

Using a mind palace

Memorization

Improving memory

Studying with a terrible memory

Memory tips

Last minute studying

Emergency study plan

More on late studying JIC

3 day study plan

Finals / exams

Oh-crap-finals-are-so-close masterpost

Last minute tips for finals

Ways to reset your mind

Examinations: reminders

The ultimate guide to final exams

Tips to focus on studying (finals)

Exam prep tips

I ran out of time (on a test)

How to remember everything for a test

Exams masterpost

What to do the night before an exam

What to do the night before an exam (2)

Standardized testing

Standardized testing

The imperfect guide on AP classes

Free SAT & AP prep

AP review set printables

Free standardized test prep

AP study resources

AP testing tips and tricks

AP cram packets

#1 tip for AP classes

SAT masterpost

The new SAT

Focus and productivity

Distraction-free studying

Do’s and don’ts of a good study environment

15 things productive people do differently

Concentration masterpost

How to concentrate

Studying 101: how to stay focused, motivated, and on track

How to stay focused

How to deal with being lazy in school

Study tips for the lazy student (1)

Study tips for the lazy student (2)

Being sick, focusing and studying effectively, & maintaining physical and mental health

A day of studying: tips

Productivity with a planner

Summer productivity

Waking up early and refreshed

Holiday productivity

Summer studying

My productivity tag

Burnout / motivation / procrastination

Doing homework when you’re sick

Studying with a lack of motivation

Burnout 101

How to start working when you really don’t feel like it

Got motivation?

General motivation

How to study when you don’t want to

Procrastination

Procrastination advice

Motivation

Motivation advice

Resource for procrastination

A very long list to help you survive school

How to stop procrastinating

24 tips to overcome procrastination

motivation.mp3

Ways to avoid burnout

Motivation (2)

How to self-motivate

My motivation tag

Mental health

Stress relief

Don’t let it ruin your education

Studying with depression

How to find peace as a student

Living and studying with anxiety

How to study with a mental illness

Depression/mental health resources

Managing stress for the overtaxed student

How to be less prickly when stressed

What to do when you don’t get the grades you want

What to do on a bad day

Why it’s okay to fail & how to deal with failure

Dealing with failure

I got a bad grade, now what?

What to do when you get a bad grade

Feel better

How to find peace as a student

How to love yourself

Calming and fun websites

Anxiety and negativity

A beginner’s guide to meditation

Taking finals with mental illness

My mental health tag

Self care

How to take care of yourself when you’re sick

How to stay healthy in inhospitable weather

Healthy studying

For people who struggle with self care, etc.

Self care cheat sheet

Finals self care (1)

All the self care

Small ways to improve your life

A self care masterpost to help you get through school

Finals self care (2)

Balancing a healthy lifestyle with studying

Hotlines/self care refs

101 self care ideas

My self care tag

+ self promotion (bc everyone seems to be doing this)

A masterpost of masterposts

College masterpost

Note taking masterpost

How to be the best student you can be

My study process

Lecture tips

Coping with obsession

Confidence

Money masterpost

My YouTube (not a studytube)

My Instagram (not a studygram)

[thestrawberrynight]

all I need now is to be in the greenhouse, grow my plants, taking care of flowers, work with herbs, breath the fresh air and enjoy the warm weather