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here is my desk setup for today - i’m at my grandparents house while my family is out so i thought i could get some work done :)

also the new mildliner brush pens are the bomb i’ve used them for the titles here

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here is some of my goals for this year and a playlist to get me ready for the day - reblog and add a song that motivates you to get ready !

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today i started on my summer business homework and i’m actually enjoying making these chapter summary sheets

[09.05.2020 || 7 /100 ]

Sunny week on Forest App and Bode’s diagrams

Something human - Muse

[02.05.2020 || 6/100]

Every library is closed, so are universities and you may be desperate because the library was the only place where you were able to focus.. I totally get you! But as someone who’ve spent most of its school years studying at home.. I can assure you that it’s totally fine! You just need a few techniques and organization skills and you’ll see that everything will be ok ! So here we go : 

• Clean and declutter your study space. Store the books you don’t need anymore and only keep the essentials on your desk. I’ll share with you an old article I wrote on Tumblr about how to upgrade your workspace!
• Block distractions : give your phone to your mom, use the Forest app, the Flipd app or just put it in airplane mode !
• Cut the outside noise : a good playlist (my Lofi playlist for example :P), earplugs and the door shut can help you be in the « library » mood…
• Make a study plan and try to stick to a routine.. It’s easy to lose track of time when you spend all of your days at home! This is why keeping a healthy routine and set hours for meals and breaks is really important!
• Since it’s easier to get distracted at home, make sure to take more breaks than the usual (for example a 45min study session and a 10 min break).
• If you have online lectures and a #studybuddy that you trust, why not split the work (for example you follow half of the lectures and your colleague the other half) and then sharing your notes? Also, why not creating a Google Drive with your colleagues so everyone shares their notes? The quarantine will be long so a little support from each other is more than welcomed!!
• You can also have skype sessions with your colleagues to debate about a subject, or quiz each other so you don’t feel too alone and you keep track of your progress :)
• You can also take the time to go deeper into the subjects you have to study and not only scratching the surface like you may be used to do ! This is also a great way to discover if you’re more interested in some subjects than others and who knows, maybe you’ll find a new passion !
• If you feel like you can’t focus anymore then.. stop. It’s totally fine to not being able to study all day, especially when you have nothing else to do and when the deadlines are still far and unsure. So Take this time to enjoy your family, work on yourself, read a book, or start a new hobby.

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So.. Schools are closed, everything is basically down and you’re up to at least 2 weeks of quarantine. You’ve bought your toilet paper, made your pasta stock (no penne lisce of course, who tf eats them anyway?!), completed 30 levels of CandyCrush and now you may be wondering… What the hell will I do during this whole time??

Well… I got you covered. I’ll just make a couple of articles on how to help YOU to make the best of this homestay! side note : this may be the first and the last time that you can save the world from your couch, so be happy about it : we’re living a historical moment!).

• First things first : MAKE A LIST. If you don’t stop one moment and think of everything you need to do, you’ll end up doing basically nothing, and this is why SUMMARIZING what you need to do can help you have a clearer vision : What are your top priorities (school work, job/college applications, deadlines, thesis, etc.)? What are your other priorities (exercising, cleaning the house, doing your laundry, washing your hands, feeding the cat…)?
• Now that you’ve listed your work/home obligations you have 2 choices : either you have so much workload that you’ll basically only do this (and this quarantine will rather look like an exam session => I’ll write a 2nd article on how to study efficiently at home) OR you have still plenty of free time !
• Which leads to asking yourself what are the things you’ve always wanted to do/improve/try but never had the motivation/time to? The examples are infinite : finish a book, start a blog, declutter, meditate more, journaling, etc..
• Once you’ve made your list, you can PLAN your days. It doesn’t need to be super serious like a study plan but just knowing what you’ll be up to each day will make you less anxious and the time will pass faster.
• Last thing : don’t forget to CHILL ! As I said, it’s the first time you won’t feel guilty about staying at home! So keep some time apart to watch your favorite TV show, enjoy precious moments with your family, sleep, and take care of yourself.

So tell me.. What would you like to do during this quarantine? Do you have any goals?

I’ll come back very soon for more details !! In the meantime, please STAY SAFE, wash your hands and AVOID close contact!!

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You may be thinking you’re a fraud, that you don’t deserve to be where you are and that you’re totally incompetent. You think that what you’ve accomplished is only due to luck or because « anyone could have done it ». You only focus on the small mistakes you made instead of being proud of what you’ve achieved and, as a consequence, you feel like a total failure. Well, this is how I feel 99% of the time and tbh we’re a lot out there to feel the same way. 

This post is for us, for the perfectionists and for all the people that set ridiculously high expectations for themselves. Performance anxiety  is part of our daily lives and even if it forces us to do a great job most of the time, the darker side of it is that it can totally make us sick in a psychological and even in a physical way. For me perfectionism was a huge shield that I used to carry around to protect myself from any criticism, judgment or shame. Well, guess what, it didn’t work. AT. ALL. 

There are a lot of reasons that may have caused me and you to think like that, it can be so engraved in our beliefs that we don’t even question it. We just believe it 100%. But the good news is that it can be fixed. 

What can you do to slowly change this belief and finally starting realizing that you deserve to be where you are? Here is what I’ve learnt throughout the years : 

• Acknowledge your thoughts and how they make you feel. Once you’ve identified these thoughts, you can observe them and question them : how do they make you feel ? From a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you believe these thoughts? What makes you think they are true? Don’t you think they are a bit exaggerated? How can you reframe them in order to make you feel better about yourself? 
• Talk about it. Last week I had to call a friend because I was feeling like shit just because I couldn’t answer to a simple question from my professor. She reassured me and reminded me that lots of people feel like that. 
• Practice positive feedback. Write down the good things you did during that day, even the smallest ones. By doing that, your brain will recognize them more easily and you’ll pay more and more attention to them 
• Comparison is the thief of joy, and most of the time we compare ourselves to the embellished and flawless version of the people we meet and/or see on social media. We tend to forget that EVERYONE can have self-doubt and feelings of not being good enough. Like come on, even Albert Einstein didn’t think his work deserved all that attention! 
• Be patient. It takes lots of time and energy to reframe and change beliefs we’ve had for such a long time. But knowing we have them and that we can change them is a great start :) 

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22.06.2020

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a cold brew, some sunlight after rain, and my notes on justice.

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days on campus.

feels like spring now