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Mindfulness: focusing intentionally on one thing at a time, no multi-tasking – applies for studying, lectures, and breaks

Work-life-balance: making time (intentionally!) for hobbies, exercising, friends, family, lazy days, reseting, meditation, etc.

Organisational system: knowing where is what – notion, good notes, google calendar & physical agenda

Scheduling and time management: planning my days ahead & during exam season even entire weeks

Discipline: showing up even on days when I do not feel like it, no postponing

Prepare for your courses: read the syllabus, add dates and deadlines to your calendar, print your timetable

Set up your digital environment: set up your Notion, create folders on your laptop for your classes

Get new notebooks: for the analogue nerds, also reuse unfinished old ones (earth thanks u)

Clean your study space: yk with actual soap and a cloth, hoover, re/organise

Declutter your digital and physical environment: nothing is more demotivating than coming home to a mess after your first day of class

Get your sleep schedule right: start waking up at the times you need to be waking up (for me, that's 7am...)

Move your body daily: go for a walk, dance, swim, jog, workout; making it a habit before the busy times even begin!

Reflect on your last academic year: journal (prompts coming soon), meditate, lie on the ground and reflect

tidy & declutter your physical & digital space 🫧

be slow & listen to your body 🐣

eat healthy & enough food 🍓

repair your sleep schedule 🌙

journal 📖

reflect on your semester (or year)

prioritise movement 🧘‍♀️

surround yourself with the right people 🦋