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Eating chocolate and complimenting yourself is great and all but in the nitty gritty when you need to help yourself you’ve often been procrastinating and have that task looming over you that’s really getting you down.

1. Prepare. Preparation is the first step to actually starting. Get all of your equipment and resources together, open up your program, go take a shower if you need to. Having a nice drink or snack there to enjoy whilst you start work is good too.

Don’t drag this out too much though! When there’s something to do it’s easy to go spend 40 minutes in the shower under the excuse of preparing to do it. The sooner you do it, the better you will feel!

2. Start. I know it feels really hard, but it’s not going to stop feeling like that until you’ve started. The work isn’t going to do itself, love! You don’t need to rush, and you don’t need to do it all in one sitting! The task at hand is important, whether it be a report or an assignment, so dividing your time can help you a lot. In fact, I think you’ll find yourself somewhat addicted to the work and feeling of productivity once you start.

If it’s a 1500 word report that you have to get done in 2 days, you have 48 hours. So for 15 of those 48 hours, write 100 words. Just 100. That’ll take you 25 minutes tops, and you don’t do them hour after hour - as long as you do that 15 times, your report will be finished, and you’ll still have time to edit!

Alternatively, do it section by section. Scientific reports usually have 8 sections. Instead of doing it all in one sitting, break it up and focus on smaller areas rather than the big picture. Don’t scare yourself!

3. Reward yourself. I’m not saying write 200 words and then go eat a massive bar of chocolate (unless that 200 words was the last 200!) but acknowledge your effort! Half way through? Go take 15 minutes to listen to some music and come back to it. No really, come back to it. I see you trying to extend your break. Just remember that you’ll enjoy those treats so much more without something looming over you that you have to do once you’re finished. It’s so much better to eat a nice snack thinking of what cartoon or movie you’ll watch after rather than how much time you’re wasting and how much faster you’ll have to work on your assignment.

4. After you’re finished, relax. You did it! You should be proud of yourself - you kicked that procrastination in the butt! That said, let this be a lesson. You shouldn’t leave things to the last minute! You save yourself so much stress by doing things early, especially if you do that time dividing trick! Allocate an hour to just write 100 or 200 words and do that until the assignment is done. This makes scheduling a lot easier too!

So now, if you do have that big assignment or report to get done, go and start. Right now. Don’t put it off any longer, love. p l u i e f r o g  believes in you!

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• Note-taking is important, whether they’re pretty or not! Your notes are what you’ll be using to revise for your exams, and they’ll be the most effective resource when it comes to committing material to memory! So here’s my personal guide on how to take good ones.   ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

1. Choosing your paper!

The paper you use is actually pretty important, and it all depends on how you like to visualise things. Remember - visualisation is a key tool when it comes to learning and memorising!

I personally prefer graph paper, particularly with small squares instead of large ones. With this, I can write neatly with even spaces, make to-do lists in regards to the lesson with the little squares, draw better diagrams and set it out the neatest.

Even so, some prefer regular lined paper for simplicity! Lined paper is really good for subjects that you don’t have to draw diagrams in, rather write lots and lots. I find that it’s best for English and Lit subjects!

And then there’s always the option of lineless paper. I personally am not a fan of this as I find it hard to make my notes neat and tidy, but it does give more freedom in the way the pages are set out. If you don’t think this is a problem for you, then lineless paper might be a good option for highly visual learners! 

2. Your choice of words is pretty important as well! Copying down exactly what your teacher/professor says won’t exactly hinder you, but it won’t necessarily help you either! Studies show that it’s much better to put your notes into your own words - it makes you think about the content more and get a better understanding before writing down information. This will also help you to remember things - because you wrote it down and this is how you understand it.

With that in mind - do copy down important words and terms that are mentioned - you will get better marks if you use those! Just put them into your own sentences and make sure you fully understand the term.

3. Revising your notes is essential to learning and memorising the material! You want to ensure that your notes will be understandable to you and make the context clear when you go back and read over them for revision. Here are some ways to do that:

• Make sure to space everything out in a way that you can read your notes with flow and not get stressed out by clutter! You will memorise things better if they’re spaced out and you focus on them in little bits.

• Rewrite your notes! You don’t necessarily have to do this for neatness - rewriting your notes also helps you commit them to memory. If you find it difficult to take tidy notes in class and you feel that tidy notes will benefit you, rewriting them for the purpose of being neat may be good for you - you’re still memorising them after all!

• Trade your notes with those of your friends or classmates - they may have picked up on something you didn’t! Also, rereading notes in a different way and in different words will help you better understand the material and can be refreshing - especially if you’ve been pouring over only your notes. That can sometimes give you tunnel vision!

4. Lastly, choosing a notebook that suits your note-taking style will save you a lot of time and stress when it comes to organising your notes and your thoughts! I find that sometimes the material taught in class is easier to memorise in a different order than it was taught, so I buy notebooks that allow me to rearrange pages to my liking.

Display folders are good because you can put any type of paper in there and the sleeves protect them from spills. Say if you’re a biology student, you can have lined paper for writing, graph paper for graphing and lineless for diagrams - all in one book! Binders are also good for this.

But if that isn’t a problem for you and you think you would benefit from the simplicity of a regular notebook, there’s no need to make it fancy if it causes you too much trouble. 

You can always type up your notes in a program like OneNote or Word, but it’s a good idea to write them out at one point or another, just to make sure that you will remember them.