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11.01.2024—back in my productivity era 🌾🤍🌿🌟

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How to form habits that last

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Greetings! 💚 Here’s a little something I’ve been working on, which I hope you’ll find useful. :)

All text and graphics are created by me, Sal @blueplaidstudies.

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[influencedgenetics]

how to fall in love with life again

go cloud-gazing, lay down in the grass on a sunny day, or empty roads on a rainy day, stare up at the sky and let your mind wander.

read a book so complex that you don't understand anything, fill your arms with scrawled definitions.

writing poems and notes of kindness, hiding them for other people to find and pass along!

read passages of love in another language, untranslated and realise that love can surpass even the greatest of barriers.

find your favourite flower! hunt for it, research it, write an essay on why you love it and how much it means to you!

buy another copy of your favourite book, fill the pages with annotations and give it to a second hand shop for somebody else to experience it the way that you do.

fill a journal with moments of your life, even if you don't think they're very interesting.

listen to music whilst looking at the moon and stars, realising how beautiful life is.

visit an art gallery or a museum near you. become familiar with it, visit it until you know it inside out. make it your special place.

learn the little things about people, including yourself. find their favourite colour and why, find their music taste, their taste in books until you know them perfectly.

the small things! taking sips of warm beverages becomes the most comforting thing, closing your eyes for a moment on a bus and focusing on the lull of movement.

bake/cook your favourite treat. experiment and find the way that makes it taste simply ethereal.

[museeofmoon]

𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚, 5𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒚 | finals starting tomorrow, feeling a whole spiral of emotions as I'll be done with school after these and then I'd be an adult, a uni student which is both scary and exciting at the same time. Last time when I changed schools and left behind the place I studied for 8 years my mental health went downhill probably the lowest in my life, let's hope that won't happen this time I have so many thought about everything happening around me and I'm a bit anxious but this year has been kind to me despite of being so busy and I hope it stays the same, the major goal in life is to get into med college with my entrance being in July. Finger crossed🤞

🎧: 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒓𝒚_𝑻𝒂𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏 | 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚

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Got a cute tiny plant to join my study journey 🌱 p.s I successfully took blood from 2 patients today at the GP practice 💉

[voyagenotes]

3rd September, 2022

August went by so fast. I am always repeating myself but it's a fact. I learned so much. I spent so much time with family and friends. I got to travel to Paris and discover some small towns in Germany. I found new motivation to study again. And I grew on a personal level. I'm looking forward to September.

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my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything | how to stop procrastinating series

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[transcript under the cut]

Other advice posts that may be of interest:

All About Procrastination

How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To

Common Study Mistakes

7 Strategies to Improve Concentration

Tip 11 - Video Yourself or Do a Timelapse

I actually discovered this strategy not that long ago but now it is absolutely one of my most valuable strategies. The best thing is that it is so simple to do!

It really works well because the video puts some pressure on you to look like you are studying. You can't stop in the middle to play with your pen or stare into space. You just have to keep going so you power through work.

It's also so satisfying when you are finished to see visual proof of how much you have completed!

Tip 12 - Accept that Some Days You are Going to Get Very Little Done

This may seem a little bit odd to put on a post that is meant to avoid getting nothing done but it’s actually a very important thing to remember.

Sometimes you need to take days off because otherwise, you are going to burn out. Some days you are just not going to be in the right mindset for studying because maybe you are exhausted after a big exam, or you have a headache or you feel unwell.

You just need to accept it, draw a line under it, take time for yourself, and resolve to work tomorrow once you feel a bit better. There is no shame in taking time to make sure you stay healthy.

If you can, try to get your quickest, easiest task done so you have some sense of accomplishment.

Tip 13 - "Churn It Out and F*@k Off!"

This was my mum’s motto when she was studying and working in academia. She recently told it to me when I was getting stressed about all the big tasks during online school.

Like I'm certain many of you are too, I am a perfectionist and I always want to hand in my very best work and put 100% into everything. But honestly that is impossible.

Some days you just need to get stuff done and if that isn’t your very best then it doesn’t matter too much because at least you did it. It's also probably better than you think it is. Once you get it done you can just forget about it and move on.

Tip 14 - Ask a Friend or Parent to Check Up on You

When you are studying by yourself, it can be hard to motivate yourself because you know that no one is actually going to check whether you made those notes or did the reading.

So ask a friend or someone you live with to check whether you’ve done the work or get them to read essays. You then get an external reason to study or do your tasks because you need to show them something.

Tip 15 - Rephrase How You Think of Tasks

When you think that ‘I need to do this task’ or ‘I have to get this done’, a lot of the time this causes unneeded stress and anxiety. Also, it makes it seem like you are being forced to do something and human beings generally don’t respond well to that.

So try to change your language when thinking about task into one that is more forgiving such as: ‘I choose to do this project so that I can go meet my friends tomorrow’ and ‘I choose to read this book now because it will help me in the lecture next week’. This is probably the most difficult strategy that I've shared and it will take a lot of practice . However, in the long term, it can help you change the way in which you view studying for the better.

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“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.” ― Vincent Van Gogh