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brand new baby studyblr here! after finally deciding to start up this blog i suddenly got really excited and made daily planners… it is full of all of the things i personally find useful but i’ve attached download links in case you like it! i was especially inspired (both to create this blog and to design these printables) by @cmpsbls, @studeying, and @gryfhindor. thank you!

I’m sure we all know how tricky time management and productivity can be, and also how crucial it is to be good at it, to succeed. So, I’d like to share a strategy of effectively managing all of those tasks you have at hand! 

Introducing Dwight Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States. He lived a super productive life, and during his presidency he implemented many transformational programs including NASA and the Atomic Energy act. Before then, he was a 5 star general in the US army, serving as the supreme commander, he was also the president of Columbia University… I could go on. 

My point is, he did all of this while still having time for personal interests and hobbies like painting and golfing. He was amazing at time management, and his most famous method of handling tasks, is called the Eisenhower Matrix. 

It’s a method of prioritising and sorting out your to-dos based on urgency and importance.  

It is super helpful is making us question what is important and actually necessary to do. I think that we often fill up our time with tasks that do not help us in reaching our core goals, and this method helps us narrow down our todos, saving us from wasting time, energy, and resources.

The 2nd and 3rd quadrant (not urgent important, urgent-not important) is what really minimises our productivity, if not properly managed and scheduled

I personally think its a fairly good way of understanding all that you have to do, what you should do first, and how you can deal with the rest. You don’t have to necessarily plan everything out this way, but its a good mindset to adopt when managing your workload. 

I’m so so awful at being concise (I’m so sorry for the long post!!) But I help this has helped you guys. Hopefully I’m going to post a printable of the matrix in the near future, so keep an eye out for that :)

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Printables: February

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These are my first printables, and I decided to make a calendar and a to-do list for this next month! They are letter sized and come in three different colors. The pdf contains all the versions and the individual pngs are for the calendars.

You can download everything here. If you have any suggestion or commentary, be sure to ask me in my inbox.

When I was doing bio in high school and in my first year of college, I didn’t really do all that I do with subjects now because it just wasn’t as heavy and I didn’t feel like I needed to.

Disclaimer: I’m not saying you should always stick to the following, I’m giving you advice based on what worked for me.

Before you start, set objectives. Know what you need to learn and how you’ll go about learning it. You can make notes or flashcards or study straight from the book… whatever works for you. (My preference is to make notes).

Spend time learning the way you learn best (I do that by explaining things to myself a couple of times).

When you’re confident that you’ve learned everything, close your books/notes/study material and re-explain what you learned.

If you have access to questions or practice tests, do them.

Review regularly. Try as you go along to formulate questions so that you look at the information from different points of view.

Some tips on what you could do before your study sessions to make it easier for yourself:

Skim the book/lecture slides/objectives if posted by your instructor before going to class you can follow along easily.

Actively listen in class and take notes if you need to (I didn’t need to in HS because everything explained was in the books).

Go over the material in the next 24 hours.

A summary on how to take good lecture notes (and get the most out of lectures)

Day 2/30 my study space.

Hey guys! Today, I just wanted to share with you how I go about with my bullet journal. I have collected a lot of ideas from Tumblr, Pinterest and Youtube, and this is the format that suits my taste. I hope you guys find this useful or interesting! :)

1. Index

Of course, most, if not all, bullet journals start with an index page so you can make reference to it in the future. This makes things easier to find and more organized.

2. Habit Tracker 

I track various habits like eating fruits and vegetables, getting 8 hours of sleep, drinking 8 glasses of water, finishing a book, etc. I put numbers in the grids and each number corresponds to a date. If I did that certain task on that day, I will shade in the box.

3. Calendar

This is a calendar for the whole month. Here, I use post-it notes so that it can be easily transferred if the date ever changed. I also use different color of sticky tabs for school, blog and personal life, but the one above is only for blog posts since I don’t have other things to put yet. 

4. Books and Blog Posts

The one above is separated into three columns - “Books I Want to Read,” “In Progress,” and “Finished” - and I used sticky tabs to put the books that I want to read in the month of January on the first column. When I’m already reading the book, I will transfer the sticky tab to the “In Progress” column, and then to the “Finished” column when I finished reading the book.

On the bottom part of the page are the blog posts that I plan to post in January, and it’s also separated into three columns - “To Do,” “In Progress,” and “Finished.” I also move them to the appropriate columns when the task changes status. 

5. Expense Tracker

This is where I track my expenses for the month. In the first column, I put the item that I bought. In the second column, I put the date, and in the third column, I put the amount.

6. Weekly Spread

This is where I put my everyday tasks. So first I put the date, and then the bar below that tracks the number of glasses of water that I drank that day (left) and the number of hours of sleep that I had the night before (right). Then after that, I proceed to my to-do list, and I shade the box different colors once the task is done for school, blog and personal. Below that, most of the time I put 1-2 sentences about the highlights of my day.

7. Weekly Mementos

Love coloring books? Us too. Zone out with bacteria, viruses, and protists coloring pages! Color these microbes on the computer, or download and print the sheets.

last week’s bullet journal spread, legend, indexing key, and reading list!!

notebook: large blank moleskine pens: staedler fineliners, delistar 0.5