Your Approach for the Next Few Months
I really recommend you focus on these points throughout the next few months with the goal of having them answered for yourself before exam time, so that when it comes to actually writing your exams and passing courses, it’s a simple, painless process.
Try different productivity methods.
I have attempted several different methods in the past and have settled on a slightly modified Getting Thing’s Done (GTD) methodology using a small set of cool apps (Trello for tasks, Evernote for thoughts, ideas, future plans).
I think the time spent experimenting with different productivity systems is well worth the effort. If you give every system an honest attempt, you’ll very soon discover that your work habits are hindered by certain requirements and bolstered by others. The point is not to make yourself love someone else’s system, but to make a system that you will enjoy and benefit from.
If your Ikea chair has screws, don’t use your friend’s hammer to build it. Unrelated: Ikea furniture really isn’t hard to assemble. You can do it. I promise.
Attempt various study techniques
There are productivity techniques to keep your tasks organized and clear and then there are techniques and tricks to actually doing those tasks.
It is wise to determine methods to use to actually get your work done because it doesn’t matter how well you organize your tasks if you never bother to do them. This is often the most painful part of the process. This makes it very important to train yourself to FOCUS, press on, and start to enjoy the struggles inherent to study and work.
Review and re-learn your material often.
If you take a bit of time every day to just review what you’ve already learned and completed, when it comes time to be tested or to present the outcome of your hard work it won’t be nearly as difficult to do. You will not have to look back to work you’ve done months ago simply because you will have been looking at it so much already that it is almost completely memorized.
Make your work fun. Fall in love with the process, not the end result.
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Learning to love the process of improvement is easier said than done. Amor Fati is a ‘love of what happens’ and Ryan Holiday talks about it in this article:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2015/07/amor-fati-learning-to-love-and-accept-everything-that-happens/
Ryan Holiday also writes about the Stoic Philosophy in his book The Obstacle Is the Way, a book I recommend if you often find yourself wondering why frustrating things always happen to you (hint: they don’t happen to you, they just happen, and you get to chose how to react).