10 Dos And Don’ts Of Sleeping

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Want to Improve your Self Discipline?

1. Make a genuine commitment to being a disciplined person.

2. Be honest about your weaknesses, distractions, and any habits that might knock you off your course.

3. Make a realistic plan. Write it down, or share it with a friend who will help you to be accountable.

4. Design your day to avoid those temptations that will likely undermine your self discipline.

5. If necessary, change your routine.

6. Reward yourself for small steps in the right direction.

7. Although you are aiming to make change a habit, accept that there are likely to be times when you fail – and if you do, just move on as you can always start again.

8 Things to Stop Worrying About

1. Other peoples’ expectations of you. At the end of the day, it’s your life not their life - so just be yourself and set,and go for, your own goals.

2. What other people say and do. It’s not up to us to control other people, or to change how they act, or to make their decisions.

3. Expecting perfection. It’s unrealistic to aim for perfection. You’ll just be disappointed and discouraged all the time.

4. Getting it wrong. We all make mistakes in our journey through this life. That’s simply part of learning, and being normal and human.

6. Fitting in. Although social skills matter, and it’s good to think of others, you also need to be yourself - a special, unique individual. Beware - conformity can kill individuality.

7. Being right. This is highly over-rated and can cause a lot of stress. If you’re confident and real you don’t need to prove you’re right!

8. Life being out of control. At the end of the day, there’s not much we can control – except our own reactions and our attitudes to problems. So change what you can – and then relax and enjoy life.

What are some red/yellow flags for interviewing graduate psychology programs?

great question! if others have additions, please add on! state your discipline/degree/country if possible, since there can be such variations across program types.

Yellow Flags:

the grad students don’t seem happy to see you and/or are otherwise unwelcoming

the grad students don’t seem to like each other/there’s an air of competition vs. collegiality among students

the faculty don’t seem to like each other/there’s an air of competition vs. collegiality among faculty

when you ask fairly normal questions- like about outcomes of graduates in the program, match rates, attrition, funding, etc -the faculty get cagey or defensive

you don’t receive an offer to be hosted by a grad student during your visit

the resources, ongoing research projects, clinical opportunities, etc. are different than what is listed in the brochure/website

the program doesn’t offer any in-house clinical training 

the faculty is overly positive about you, in a selling-you-something, trying-to-get-you-to-ignore-problems kind of way

Red Flags:

the grad students warn you about the program or a professor

multiple current graduate students haven’t achieved reasonable goals that they set 

the professors in some way show blatant disregard for the applicants or the grad students- like, they ask applicants to complete a ridiculous or very difficult task as a part of the interview (I had a friend who was asked to calculate a beta weight by hand on a white board during a group interview) (grad students doing something similar is a yellow flag)

the professors pit applicants against each other or otherwise encourage competitiveness and negativity between applicants

the professors appear to view students as work horses and not trainees

there is some kind of funky outcome (high attrition, low match rates) and the faculty can’t adequately explain it

the program doesn’t offer any in-house clinical training AND they expect students to find their own practicum placements

students only do online surveys and/or undergrad sample research

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Gentle reminder;

Everyone has different sized plates. You might think someone doesn’t have alot on their plate compared to you, but that is not necessarily true ♡

Their plate could be very different from yours. It could be made of flimsy, thin paper instead of ceramic. It could be smaller, even slightly broken or just not be as sturdy as the ceramic plate ♡

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that! We just need to remember this instead of judging someone for not “doing as much as other people do/doing as much as society wants them to do”♡

Take this into consideration when you think someone has it “easy” or “don’t do much and get too overwhelmed” compared to you or other people ♡

Many people fight invisible battles everyday. Battles they never describe or discuss with anyone ♡

Always be kind, we can never truly know how someone feels and what they are going through at the moment. Your smile can totally make their day ♡

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By: Charisjb, via Instagram

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