Temporary Thoughts

do NOT purge 

take deep breaths and lay down for a minute 

brush your teeth 

wait 15 minutes and then start sipping cold water for the rest of the day 

take a shower 

put on an oversized shirt 

drink a cup of tea 

think about why you binged (were you emotional, bored or deprived of nutrients?) 

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

September 10 2017

After I posted this post I got a ton of requests for the full images of each individual poster, so here they are!! I drew them all by hand (periodic table was the worst one) and I plan on doing some more because I really like having info sheets all plain and out there like that. It really helps me study. 

I’m  pretty sure they are all legible if you click on them, but if any of you want ***printables*** I can try to scan them.

10.19.17 || this spread was low key inspired by pajama day on Monday

september 22, 2017

fall is here friends, and i’ve never been happier ! this is last week’s spread, and i’m quite happy with how it turned out :)

Some notes from my business and economics class. You may be able to see the typed notes behind which are also mine, which is the other way I write my notes ⭐️

Day 26 [26.2.17]: Colour coding