After taking ESEPSY 1259 and reading 52 Small Changes for the Mind by Brett Blumenthal, I experimented with mind-improvement strategies and techniques.
The Salvation of Slumber: Sleep Contributing to Success
Are you tired of constantly needing to nap, being thrown off by inconsistent sleep, finding yourself stressed out before bed, or just plain tired? If so, there’s a way to make changes in your sleeping habits to account for these problems. In this post I will demonstrate how you can structure your sleeping patterns in a way that promotes feeling great and performing successfully. If you have other goals or just view sleep with indifference, this post will awaken you to the importance of sleep and how it will even help with achieving your other goals in life. Only once you have winning sleeping habits can you win in life.
The Medication to Procrastination
For this course project, when asked to identify a goal I wanted to accomplish by the end of this semester, I knew right away what I needed to work towards—procrastination. I can’t tell you how challenging it has been for me to accomplish this goal of cutting procrastination completely out of my life. I still sometimes struggle with handling all the distractions in my life and pushing them all away so I can get my work done. The experiment of using tracking methods made the biggest progress for me in pursuing my goal. Physically writing down things I had to do instead of just looking at Carmen was an immense help. In my Course Project Takeaways, I described to the reader what day-to-day procrastinators struggle with, all the obstacles I faced, the book I chose and why, the lessons I’ve learned, the strategies from the book I used, and I also incorporated all the steps I took in seeking out my course project goal. I now not only realize that this is a course project goal, but also a life goal. I cannot keep procrastinating my whole life, it could be detrimental.
MANAGING STUDY TIME EFFECTIVELY
This blog post shows the skills for effective time management. The post discusses the skills I picked after reading the book, Organize Tomorrow Today, by Jason Selk, Tom Bartow, and Matthew Rudy which contained hints regarding effective time management. The post also shows how I employed the skills in managing time for classwork, exams and ultimately short and long term life goals. Tracking examples that I used are also included therein. The post then discusses the major takeaways and then recommends that students apply the time management skills discussed.