Study Skills Resources

Stress Relief and Productivity Techniques

• Here's an article that covers many techniques.

• Slow Deep Breaths

• The Power of Now - Watching the Thinker

• Body Scan

• 12 Rules for Life - Stand up straight with your shoulders back; treat yourself like someone you're responsible for taking care of

• The Pomodoro Method - see below

• from 7 Habits for Highly Effective People: Urgent Important Sort

• from Getting Things Done: the brain dump (scroll down to "Capture")

• Break it down into tiny steps

• Don't try everything at the buffet of life (Say "No" to some things)

• Press the "Easy Button"/KISS (Keep it simple, sweetie)

• There's more to life than just happiness. 

• Do compare yourself, but not to others. Compare yourself today with who you were yesterday. 

• Focus on the progress you've made - overall, short term, and on a specific task.

Other Articles

• Suggestions for Help with Time Management

• The Pomodoro Technique: A way to overcome procrastination

• What is studying? Here's a page that has some good tips.

• Another really good resource on studying and homework - While geared toward math classes, these tips can be used with any subject.

• Improve your attention and concentration abilities

• Another good resource on improving your focus

• Habitica.com - motivate yourself to accomplish stuff by turning your to-do list into a game.

• Reading comprehension tips

• Articles of interest:

  •   From Forbes, 10 Traits of an Exceptional Employee

  •   From The Honest Apothecary 5 Benefits of Hard Work