Jan
7 Steps to Fire Up for the Semester Ahead
This is a fantastic way to integrate what you are learning as you read through course outlines, timetables, your textbook summaries that I am sure you are checking out 
The summary of steps presented here are but a taste of what is offered over at Simple*ology.
The post below is a snapshot to demonstrate how to analyse and write an overview of a large piece of data (the Daily Task Praxis DTP) portion of the site is comprehensive. You’ll love it!
Make the effort to follow the 7 Steps to Fire Up for the Semester Ahead; the advantages to you as a student are two-fold:
Using your own blog/scrapbook/journal as a learning tool to interpret and summarise useful information means learning can take place at a deep level for both you and your readers & associates. Bring on those short-answer questions at exam time!
And, having a Morning Ritual for Study gives you an opportunity to reflect on thoughts and activities of the previous day, how these help or hinder you to reach your goals and to focus your mind to a state often referred to as The Zone (also know as “being in the flow” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990) .
Organisation is a key process in success. When you feel you have nothing to do~ organise something! Your daily list of target tasks will make real to you new knowledge and skills. A step-by-step approach can be created by taking the time to write/plan/draw out what you are hoping to achieve.
Be prepared to get more done in your day. In an hour. In 5-10 minutes.
1. Complete the checklist, tick each item as completed.
___ Find a personal space which is not cramped and is low noise
___ Take the phone of the hook/put the mobile to vibrate and close messengers/email
___ Clear clutter from where you are sitting
___ Think only of your Daily Targets
2. Let your mind flow~ brainstorm your thoughts onto a page, or pages, as required. Pour out thoughts without judgment. Ignore spelling and grammatical rules. Inter-spice with pictures and drawings, a song or two. Just let your mind release its thoughts in a current to the page.
It is amazing what can take shape from the expressed word.
3. Set your self some daily targets. Choose from amongst the flow. Prioritize and place in order of when they need to be achieved (e.g., morning/afternoon/evening or home/uni/work).
Keep it feasible.
4. Reflect on activities, thoughts, food, drink, people, TV shows, songs etc, that seemed to sap your energy yesterday. Can you avoid these? Are they pointing to an unresolved issue? What are ways to counter these effects?
Now reflect on the activities etc that juiced your energy levels!!! Can you build on these? Are they available daily? Can they be made to be?
5. Extend on your daily goals to include short-term, mid-term and long-term goals (or if this is not your first cycle of the Daily Prep Steps, then reflect on these goals and add to where necessary).
6. Visualize yourself climbing each step, or landing on each stone, toward these goals. Use mandala work or other craft to reflect on how it will feel when you achieve these goals. Focus.
7. Do, Consider or Move on.
Do it~ as in now! Consider aspects of it and deliberate your alternatives to complete the task. Mpve on from it as now is not the time to pay attention to it. This may mean putting the task on the backburner, or letting it go altogether.
