promote productivity

Do you have problems with studying or just need some advice in regards to studying? Well here I am to propose some options to change your study habits for the better. Study tips that I point out may not work for you or everyone else; you just need one study tip to work to increase your productivity. 

These tips build on note taking, time management and decreasing procrastination. Here are the benefits at a more detailed perspective. 

• Write Cleary. Be able to read your notes and know what it was written about. Basically do well organized notes to ensure you can use those notes further into class and understand its contents.
• Study Vocabulary for the class: Vocabulary in courses like Psychology or history classes help you understand the material better. I recommend making a quizlet to give yourself full autonomy concerning how you study: either you create one or use the ones other created to limit the time you take creating a Quizlet.
• Organize your study space: having a mess in any place is troublesome and actually causes stress. Stress affects your studying negatively so like how you dust your windows, dust that stress away! Cringe    metaphor but you get the idea. Less stress =  increase in learning. 
• Do not procrastinate: we all do it regardless and mostly likely will not be eradicated but we need to lower the amount of procrastination we do. Procrastination brings unnecessary stress. By doing your work on time, or better yet, early, you are decreasing the amount of stress you have. Time management is important especially when you go to college and have 4-5 classes in a semester with x10 the amount of work and x1/2 of the amount of time than usual. Building these habits early promotes you to success and less struggle in the future.

Everyone’s way of learning is distinct and you should embrace your differences and use them. Over time use your favorite aspects of different note-taking structures to create your own structure of notes that help you. When you figure it out, stress of note-taking will decrease rapidly and you have less things to worry about. 

Managing your time and trying to avoid procrastination is hard. Procrastination is the level that all students go to, some stay at that level for a while and others leave quickly. I advise you to learn that level as fast as you can. Procrastination increases mistakes, stress, mental illnesses,  and more. It does not help to leave work for later when you just do not want to do it. You can start to reward yourself when doing work before the date because in psychology it is proven that positive reinforcement promotes the likelihood of that behavior of doing work earlier knowing there is a reward to stay with you. Managing your time is basically planning ahead, sometimes the plan will change, but it is just the thought of you planning what homework you will finish, when you will go to the gym, and more. Creating good habits is the most important thing.

I struggled with studying growing up and I learned the hard way of the importance of efficiently studying. Only in high school did I start to take my own advice on my studying but every now and then I do procrastinate and life just becomes 100% stressful. Stress then takes over and ruins me emotionally and physically. Do not allow that to happen to you. Take the extra mile if you have to. The hardest path usually is the best outcome. Your studying habits is only something you can do and it will be hard to maintain it. But you can do it, just believe in your own judgement.

Watching others studying on YouTube makes me personally feel the need to study. Sleeping well and working out makes me feel ready to take on the world. I prescribe you that, taking better care of yourself physically and mentally.
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Having and creating better studying habits will take time so be patient. Nobody in the world is perfect, we all struggle with things. Use your faults to bring you up and not down. Do you have a set of personalized study habits and do they work? Do you last and honestly are they worth it? That is up to you to answer since out of all the people in the world, you know yourself the best. So sit down and talk to yourself, which is not a bad thing to do from time to time.

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Chelsea

(She/Her)
Chelsea writes articles to inform people about typical skills we all need in this world. She loved to write because you can put your passion, heartbreak and emotions into articles and allow them to transcend to the reader.
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