A simple way to keep your mind in the game is to write down all your off-the-field or non-test concerns before a practice, a game, or a test.
For example:
You don’t want to get paralyzed at the start of the school day by the range of things you could be working on: math quiz, history presentation, first draft of the social studies essay.
If you start your day by engaging with a critical task, you should end your day by preparing for that task.
Place on […]
Tracking your anxious predictions is an easy way to correct your mind’s tendency to overestimate the likelihood of bad things happening.
Here are a couple of fun ways to do it.
Sometimes, teens are told to start their homework with the most challenging and stressful task to get it out of the way.
This is known as “eating the frog.”
But starting your study period with the most difficult or stressful task can make you dread starting your homework in the first place.
In addition, depending on how stressed […]
Stressed people have lots of thoughts, and many of them are scary or disturbing.
This makes people want to push away a thought, but our minds don’t work this way.
The only way to know whether you’ve pushed away a thought is to check in your mind whether the idea is there or not and, in an […]
When you’re stressed and putting off starting a task, it helps to think in minutes rather than hours – or at least 5 minutes.
A 5-minute dash to the finish can help you start and often starting is the hardest part.
Here’s how it works.
The make-a-dollar-a-day trick is a fun way to prioritize tasks. Here’s how it works.
At the start of your day, sit down and list 5-10 tasks you want to complete.
Prioritize the tasks.
Do you tend to underestimate how long you’ll take to complete a task?
Try doubling the time!
Now, two […]
Getting distracted can cost you time, and lost time adds to your stress. Timers are a great way to minimize lost time.
For example, if you’re working on an essay and tend to go down the Wiki hole when you do online research, set a timer for 5 minutes.
When the timer sounds, ask yourself, “Am I […]
I recently contributed to an article on the website Hyphen about hoarding tendencies and how it affects immigrants and refugees.
From childhood, Nina Laqman knew there was something different about her […]