esmereldastudies:

Study Motivators That Work

The 3 Minute Rule

• When you have a task that you don’t want to complete, just get started and keep going for 3 minutes. If you still don’t want to complete the task after 3 minutes, stop and start another task
• This method can be very challenging during the initial stages of trying it
• When you procrastinate, you tend to find something else to do first to dodge the main task at hand
• This rule forces you to immediately avoid any deviation from completing the task for 3 solid minutes with the option to stop after those 3 minutes
• Discipline plays a crucial role in this motivation technique as starting the 3 minutes requires you to overcome procrastination
• Something that helps in this process is trying to slightly mentally detach yourself from the situation to have an objective view on it
• You need to look at the situation and acknowledge that you have the freedom to stop the task after 3 minutes if you truly cannot complete it and that you absolutely must start the task immediately

Often times, I keep going once I start which results in significantly improved productivity

Flexibile Schedules

• Often times, I plan out the perfect study and work session with my tasks and times detailed to the second
• However, sometimes, life gets in the way of these plans and I’m forced to reschedule everything
• Something like this can be extremely demotivating, especially if your day revolved around your very detailed plan
• To help solve such issues, there are 2 options for 2 different scenarios
• The first option is to prevent the situation from occurring at all
• Extremely rigid and detailed plans are very easy to disrupt
• Preventing the situation would be done by outlining more flexible study and work plans that can be done at most times and don’t rely on strict timings (I will post another article on creating a flexible and functional study schedule)
• The second option is how to move forward if you do find yourself in a situation where your study plans have been disrupted and you’re demotivated
• In this instance, the first step is to list the topics you need to cover and sort them from most important to least important
• Estimate how much time each topic will take and look at how much time you have available
• Evaluate if the time you have available is adequate to completely cover all of your listed topics
• If not, choose as many topics with the greatest priority that will be able to be completed within your available time
• Remember, these steps should be completed within 5 minutes at most to prevent you from losing any more time

There’s always a plan for every situation. It just needs to be found.

Justify It

• If you truly feel like there’s no reason to compete the task, find a reason
• If the task is important enough for you to lament over it, it’s certainly important enough for you to complete it as soon as possible
• Clear your mind of any frustration and just relax
• Think of what the purpose of the task is
• Do you need to complete an assignment that will be a part of your final grade?
• Do you need to complete a report for your job?
• Will this benefit you in the future - near or far?
• If you need to study, what is your end goal?
• When I hesitate with my studying, I always remind myself that what I’m learning now will one day help me improve as a doctor
• Once you identify a reason, act on it and complete the task
• The reason will help you sense that what you’re doing has meaning and purpose, making the task less of an inconvenience and more of a duty

Knowledge is always valuable.

garbji:

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Lou Salomé
(via wordsnquotes)

cat-memes-only:

lylylylylylylylyly:

studies have shown that it do be like that sometimes

broken-depressed-hearts:

I just realized that I don’t know how to fucking love myself. It’s the saddest thing I’ve ever said.

tenderskeleton:

Why go to a doctor for therapy when you can just lie in bed all day, blast your music and cry yourself to sleep?

narcotic:

loving someone more than you love yourself will kill you

fatallyfallingforyou:

I think my feelings for you are genuinely fading away. I thought I’d never get over you, but now I find myself deleting those pictures, deleting those little memories, traces of you are slowly leaving my heart. The butterflies are fluttering away, the blush on my cheeks is disappearing, the idiot grin I had when I thought of you is turning into a blank expression.

I’m starting to feel grateful that it didn’t work out, when just months ago I was heartbroken over it. I’m realizing how wrong you are for me, how damaging my feelings for you were, just overall how bad the situation was.

But the thing is, if I could go back and make it so that I never liked you in the first place, I wouldn’t change it. The whole experience taught me so many lessons that if it weren’t for how it played out, I wouldn’t have learned. So thank you, for being both the best and worst person that I have fallen for.