Don't you just hate the utter impending doom that is felt when the amount of work that you have piled up just doesn't seem to vanish even if you stare at it for long enough. The continuous practiced art of procrastination and refusal to actually start the pile of work finally catches up to you and then BOOM it hits you, "Why did it I just spend 3 hours of my life looking at how gum is made on YouTube?"Yep trust me we've all felt that way. Lately ,after coming back from the blissful Christmas holidays , I've noticed even more so about my refined and tuned skills that I possess in the mastery of laziness. This continuous and destructive cycle of an unmotivated mind and lack of dedication to anything let alone my education is really starting to grate on my last nerve. Seems like I'm ready to do something about it. So I have devised a plan to keep me motivated and productive in order for me to achieve the goals that I have this academic year.
Firstly as boring and basic as it probably is I really, truly, desperately am going to try my hardest to stick to an efficient but realistic revision time table. Yes you may be wondering how a revision time table could possibly be efficient yet realistic at the same time; well I'm here to tell you that no way will I sacrifice my me time in the evenings to come home every day after school and religiously revise until I pass out with exhaustion. Instead I'm planning to do 2hrs of revision for 2 subjects a day (yr 11 student for context) and leave the rest of my evenings for homework and boy do I get a lot of that. In the weekends as I have more time I will hopefully upscale my revision to 4hrs. This doesn't mean that I will be doing it in one big fat mind blowing chunk of 4hrs as my life is precious to me. As well as the fact that I would find it very hard to actually focus on my work instead of procrastinating. I would like to add that this isn't what I will be doing all through the months leading up to GCSE's because trust me by then I'd have hoped to kick the revision up a notch. Yes this time table may not currently sound like a perfect revision time table (by no means did I ever say it was) but this is just trial and error for a student who crams for their tests 99% of the time( help GCSE's are in a few months) .
Another thing that I'm hoping to aid me in my mission for glory and conquest of demotivation is foreshadowing. As depressing as it may sound I may actually have to review my small unnoticed actions now that could potentially have a big impact on the near future. For example I have high aspirations of what I want to achieve in my GCSE grades yet If I continue with this lazy attitude and unproductive mindset then I'm practically saying good bye to my dream grades before I've had a chance to meet them. I mean you know what they say "you can't have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic"
Overall I believe that anyone who's ever felt unmotivated or is feeling unmotivated should look to the future and ask themselves about what it is that they aspire to do. Only then will that individual realise that putting work off or whatever they have to do to get to their aspiration, will only bring them closer to the date of when they would've achieved that aspiration and not any closer to actually achieving it.
