My Journey to Productivity

Keeping myself accountable to a life worth living. Please hound me if you're not hearing anything from me.

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Tuesday 4th April 2017

I’ve been going over past paper questions today, and realising how much content there actually is 😅😅 I’m getting there though, but I’m worried that my lack of familiarity with the type of question is leading me to make silly mistakes that will lose a lot of marks.

Press-ups are difficult, and I feel like I may be peaking. I'be also come to realise that I have hyper-extension problems in my elbows that I need to be aware of so I don’t get arthritis down the line.

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Monday 3rd April 2017

Back to the monotony of Quantum. My difficulty is that there's so much dense maths that I'm really struggling to get particularly far. Managed to catch up with the press-ups so I'm back on track.

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Sunday 2nd April 2017

So I was still feeling a bit rough today, but I managed to get up and help out my dad at his office. He's just moved into a new place, so we were setting up all the desks, computers, wiring, TV, printer, cleaning etc. Originally I was supposed to be working until 5pm but it ended up dragging on until almost 11pm. By the time I got home I was exhausted so I didn't do the press-ups but I'll do them early tomorrow and then continue the evening ones.

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Saturday 1st April 2017

Tonsillitis symptoms carried over still. I woke up feeling as though I were really hungover, so I'm going to try and recover as much as I can again today.

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Friday 31st March 2017

Shit day today. I woke up in a bad state, with my symptoms correlating to tonsillitis again. Phones up the doctor's and got an afternoon appt, and got the diagnosis and antibiotics. I'm going to take at least today as a rest day. Still managed to keep up my little exercise thing surprisingly. Bright side is that I'm now on 6 cases, and the criteria is set at 7 cases for a tonsillectomy referral, so I'm very close.

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Thursday 30th March 2017

I got on with some more quantum work today, but really struggled with getting through a lot of dense maths work within it. Powered through and somewhat understood it towards the end. I'll keep working at it tomorrow. I planned to get up early and go for a run, but I couldn't get any sleep so I went out at like 1am for a run, which is really good for me as it helps with the insecurity of other people watching me. Managed to do about 2.4 miles, which isn't loads but it's a start.

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Wednesday 29th March 2017

Today was a good day. I got up early and managed to blitz through a lot of quantum work, which was really nice, working solidly through til the evening. 

 I contacted photographers for our college day and booked in all the inflatable bits today, so things are starting to come together.

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Tuesday 28th March 2017

Sat down with my big TARDIS mug full of tea, my breakthrough from yesterday really helped with my understanding, so I’ve gone back through some old past paper questions and I can understand how to do them (and as far as I know I’ve got them right, if only they would post the bloody solutions too!!!)

My sleeping pattern hasnt been as regimented as it should be and that’s cutting into my working day, so I need to do a reboot and force myself up early tomorrow.

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Monday 27th March 2017

Today was not as fruitful as it should have been. I sorted a few bits for Butler Day but didn’t manage to get through much of my actual work, although I did finally understand a concept of Quantum Mechanics that I was really struggling with conceptually before.

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Sunday 26th March 2017

Mother’s Day today, so unfortunately not as much work done as I hoped. I spent a lot of time with my family, and then later my grandparents. Managed to get in some solid reading through of Quantum Mechanics - finally understood a topic I’ve been struggling with for the past few months, and I’m going through all the formulas an memorising those.

Press-up challenge is 21 in a row today. I was so achy because of my general lack of fitness.

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Saturday 25th March 2017

So it was a fairly early start this morning to kickstart my better sleeping habits. I travelled with my brother and sister to meet my sister and brother-in-law to go to a trampolining place for an hour. It was really great to spend time with these guys because it was the first time I'd seen my sister and her husband since they found out I was gay and have a boyfriend. We had a meal and drink too which was really lovely. When I came back home, I responded to emails and messages regarding Butler Day (our college fun day which I'm heading up with a friend) and emailed over information to my department and student support regarding my illness in case I need to build a case in the future for excusing further illness. I Skyped my boyfriend this evening as he's heading off to his Devon chalet (ikr what a pretentious twat) tomorrow morning for a couple of weeks, so I'm happy I could see his beautiful face again :D I've also started a little press-up challenge, where I start by doing the most I can do in one go, and build up by adding 1 to that target number every day: today it was 20 I think today was important in establishing connections with people so I can have better relationships (personal and professional) to better my experiences.

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Friday 24th March 2017

Started today a bit off, probably just tail-end symptoms from my most recent case tonsillitis. I managed to complete all my revision checklists for the exams I’ve got this summer, shown above (double-sided) with sections for stuff I’ve read, made notes of, and then finally revised again.

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This could be the start of something new...

So here’s the plan. I’m tired of myself, and I’m tired of not being able to fulfil my potential as a student, as a friend and as a boyfriend. 

So, what I‘m planning to do is everyday to post what I’ve done, and have you guys as followers/supporters/critics of how much I’ve done and to try and hold me accountable to what I need to be doing. I may list things, I may add in anecdotes or photos - not in a conventional studyblr way, but as a life enhancement. And hopefully as things pick up, I can offer advice or tips to anyone in a similar situation.

What would be great from you guys is to remain pretty skeptical of what I say (because I may lie to myself and by extension you), and if I say something then you can ask for evidence of it etc and I’ll try my best to show it. That may be an annoying or pointless request to some but to me it would mean the world. 

Let’s hope this goes well :D