An interesting thing about remembering what you learned is that you’re more likely to remember something in the place where you learned it.
If you took your history exam in a lecture-style classroom with big windows, you may recall what you learned best in that same or a very similar classroom.
Obviously, you can’t stage your bedroom […]
When you coach yourself, the tone of your self-talk is as important as the words you use.
A harsh, critical tone, even with encouraging words, can increase your stress and hurt your performance.
To see how this works:
When you’re coaching yourself, the tone of your coaching self-talk is as important as the words you use.
Even with encouraging words, a harsh, critical tone can increase your stress and hurt your performance.
When you’re stressed, your mind tends to drift toward doom and gloom.
You can train your mind to tilt toward the positive – or at least toward the neutral – by looking for and spending time with the positive.
It’s not that you’re making a negative into a positive. That’s a bit like looking at the world […]
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.