#studyproductivity

31/10/2020 (Happy Halloween everyone)

Hello everyone, I hope you're okay. So it's lockdown season 2 in France. I was on vacation but Monday my classes are full online now (normally) but we don't have our organization yet. So I don't know if Monday I have an online classe or not.

In the last post, I talk to you a little about time management. I try a new organization but I didn't fully follow it for some reason (and the actuality and my stress are some reasons). But I think it's an interesting organization.

How I scheduled my time to study during this vacation ?

I'm not have a habit to study a lot during a day. And this year, it's worse. If I study 2 hours a day, it's awesome. So I try to schedule my time to studu more, and to be more productive.

Here's how I scheduled my day:

7h30 Waking up

9h Study session

12h Lunch and Break time. Time to chill (take a nap, read, etc)

15h Study session number 2

19h End of the study session. Time to chill and rest

22h30 Time to go to bed

During the study session, I still take some breaks because I can't stay focus for 3-4 hours straight, I need to have some break to stretch, stand up, move or rest my eyes.

With the new organization and the online classes, I will maybe keep this organization. We will see if this organization will work with me.

19/03/2019 20:30hrs

Hello my lovelies!!!!

I'm about to go full on night owl again. It feels so good to be productive.

27/10/2020

I'm on vacation. Vacation means rest. Yeah, I need to rest (I don't sleep well enough, I didn't do a lot of sport lately and I neglected my mental health). But I have a tons of study! I have an essay to write (and I will finish it today), I have to complete my lessons and I have to prepare the Tutorials for this lessons. And I also have a presentation.

So my vacation have to be productive.

Are you on vacation too?

How do you organize your To-Do Lists?

I use to write each day a new To-Do List. Something like "Write my essay" or "Read Medieval History". To big, not specific enough. Then... I procrastinate. And I study for like 2 hours per day (With a lot of day where I nearly don't study). And I didn't get anything done. And I'm late in everything.

It's because I write really bad To-Do List. And this how I try to make good To-Do List now (I watch a wonderful video of Ali Abdaal about it and it was like a revelation!).

1. Capture

If you only rely on your brain, you will forget everything. You have to write (on a piece of paper or on your phone) what you have to do. EVERYTHING you have to do. Write every ideas, every tasks, every little things you have to accomplish.

Then, you have to clarify it.

2. Clarify

Do you know why you procrastinate? Why you're lacking productivity? Why you're bot efficient enough? It's often because you don't have a clearly define next step.

Look at your To-Do List you just write. Now, convert everything into actions.

"Write an essay" become "Search the author", "Search the bibliography", "Search the question and the plan", "Write the introduction" etc.

You have to create small tasks, very specific things.

Now you have to organize everything.

3. Organize

Put every task and action you have to do ibto your planning. You can also organize them vy project or deadline.

4. Review

It's important to daily or weekly review where you can see if you were too ambitious with your organization or if you can me more ambitious. You can also evaluate if you were enough productive or if you just procrastinate and why.

5. Engage

And now, do the things! You have everything in your me system, you just have to take action now! Just do it!

I'm currently trying this system during my vacation. I start Sunday (now we are Tuesday) and Sunday I study for 4 hours, and Monday I study for 5,5 hours! And I complete my To-Do List for this days!

Next time I will certainly talk to you about how I manage my time but I'm trying a new organization (vacation, perfect time to try new things) and we will see if this organization work for me!

You can always find on Instagram, I'm active every day! And the book review are back!

18 Sep 2019 16:30hrs

Hey dearies, long time no see, hey?

I'm trying to keep myself sane these days, anyone have any suggestions on how to chill when you've got a ton of things to do?

This is one of the assignments I'm trying to get done before Friday 🙄