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How to Never Fall Behind in Classes

Alternatively titled: How to Use Your Planner or How Organization and Discipline Will Get You Better Grades

This is my full guide on how to use your planner effectively and make sure that you are never missing deadlines or falling behind in classwork and homework. This is definitely more about the university level and works best with a dated planner, rather than a bullet journal. Let’s get started! 

Get all of your syllabi together and write down dates. Go through one class at a time and mark down all of your major tests and assignment due dates. I recommend putting these dates into the monthly and weekly views, and perhaps coming up with a symbol or other indicator that tells you they are of utmost importance. 

Make a weekly schedule of when to complete readings and do a weekly review of notes. Instead of trying to randomly decide when to do these things, assign a date for each task for each class. If you have a tutorial on Tuesday, do the assigned readings for it every Wednesday. I recommend scheduling one to two weekly tasks per day, and to leave a few days open, whether it be weekends or days when you have a lot of classes.

Make a master list of assignments. I find that sometimes, even having due dates in the calendar view isn’t enough, and they can still sneak up on you. The master list will be a good place to double check if you have any deadlines approaching easily. 

In the week or so before a due date, create a checklist of smaller tasks needed to complete the assignment. Set individual due dates for each smaller task by working backwards from the due date. Smaller tasks may include finding sources, making an outline, writing a rough draft, and editing and adding references to create a final copy. Write the smaller tasks into your daily to-do list. 

You can also do this with studying for tests, but the checklist would look slightly different. You could either sort by study method (first do flashcards, then do essay outlines, etc.) or sort by the topics you need to study. 

Stick to the schedule you have made. Obviously, if something comes up and you need to move your to-do list around, do so! But if you aren’t doing anything and you see readings on your list of daily tasks.. do them. Having the plan set out like this makes it easier for you to remain disciplined. 

Why use this method? 

By creating a schedule for repeated weekly tasks like completing readings, you make sure that you can’t repeatedly push off smaller tasks until you are weeks behind. I don’t think it is very reliable to just will yourself to do readings, or to keep up with them without tracking it. 

By writing down all of your due dates, you will never be shocked to find out something is due the night before. You will know and you will be prepared. 

By creating smaller checklists of tasks to complete before a major test or assignment, you will never find yourself in a situation where you have an essay due in a few days and haven’t even started. You will be following a timeline and making sure you don’t have to rush.

I know this system may seem rigorous, but planning is the only way you can keep on top of your workload in university! Falling behind is a lot harder if you are organized and disciplined, and being on top of your workload will help you a lot when it comes to exam times… no cramming and all-nighters if you have been consistent all semester! 

How to be a Good Friend

1. Be understanding and supportive when your friend is having a hard time.

2. Be interested and excited when something good has happened to your friend.

3. Don’t be a gossip. Think the best of people; not the worst.

4. Remember that a secret … is a secret … is a secret. Don’t pass on what’s been shared in confidence.

5. Be willing to help friends out.

6. Don’t criticise anything about your friend – his/ her clothes, choices, decisions, boyfriends, girl friends etc

7. Show up at events that you friend has invited you to – birthdays, celebratory meals etc.

8. Encourage your friend to dream and be the best person they can be (then affirm, encourage and believe in them as they seek to become that person.)

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I rose from deep sleep, awaken within the fire cold love .. his voice is the gentle peaceful like the tallest he is ..

Tanya

The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions; it is mentioned in the Rigveda,but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India’s ascetic and śramaṇa movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Upanishads. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE,but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century. Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.

Happy new year

rape

do you know what no means?

i was begging you please don’t…

but that won’t stop you,

you’ll do what you want to,

leaving me mentally and physically bruised.

forever feeling empty and abused.

you refused to admit you’d done wrong,

and it’s been so long.

but it’s still on my mind.

all the time.

like a song stuck in my head.

you are my sad song that makes me wish i was dead.

i never want to get out of bed,

afraid to be seen,

i don’t wanna be heard.

you took what was mine,

left me destroyed,

and walked away fine.

—z.k.g

( via: @shrinking-addiction )

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Affirmations 💫

✨ I am a vibrational match to all of my desires in life

✨ I am prosperous

✨ I am a money magnet

✨ I am in my best health

✨ I am so happy and grateful that money comes to me in increasing quantities, through multiple sources, on a continuous basis

✨ Everything always works out in my best interest

✨ Money is a renewable source it will keep coming back

✨ Action is the energy that translates my thoughts into reality

✨ All things lead to my success, wealth, and happiness