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How to set achievable goals
How to prioritize self-care
How to create healthy habits
Step 1| Audit Yourself
You must first objectively examine your own habits and systems to figure out in what ways you can optimize most effectively.
You can keep a journal or open up a note on your phone and jot down what you are doing and how you’re feeling over the course of a day.
- Who are you studying with?
- When did you eat?
- When did you try to study?
- When did you begin feeling like you were just over it?
Doing this for a couple days will give you a better view of your current systems and pain points.
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Step 3| Lower the Activation Energy
- Create Small Sub-tasks: Once you think you’ve made it small, make it even smaller than that.
- Decrease the Time Commitment: Use the Pomodoro Technique.
- Choose Easy Tasks to Build Momentum
- Lower your Ex...
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Systems produce results.
Relying on motivation, inspiration, being energized, or any other fleeting emotion will not sustain you and not deliver the results that you desire.
It’s the system that delivers the results.
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Step 4| Add some spice
- Vary the type of studying or Subject.
- Incentivize Yourself with Rewards: Find something you’re looking forward to, and tell yourself you’ll be able to do it immediately after you finish your task.
- Move: It has two benefits.
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Step 2| Use the Power of Language
Here are some ways to implement it:
- When you tell yourself “I don’t feel like studying” say out loud “so what?" which will snap you out of this limiting mindset.
- Use the word “and” instead of “but” when facing your problems.
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