News: motivation

Finding your motivation to get through this exam period

Exams can be intense and draining, but finding the right mindset and motivation to get through them is key.

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Semester reboot

Alas, where have the holidays gone? Oh, how I long for thee! 

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Flipping the script: how changing your reaction can change everything

Life throws challenges that can really shake our confidence or get us down. This University Mental Health Day, our focus is all about flipping the script. 

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Harnessing confidence for the thesis

I’m in the countdown phase now – not quite close enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the adrenaline is certainly pumping, and the fear and unease is palpable. This has to be over soon. I’ve finished all the empirical studies and now it’s tying it all together into the thesis.

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Asking for help

A foggy landscape with a long, black road stretching far in the distance.

I had my first appointment with a psychologist in six years. Even after the mere hour, I left the building with a whole new perspective I could have never imagined for myself.

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Combatting demotivation

Young man in a green jumper on a leather couch using a remote controller

How do you shake that horridly sluggish feeling of not wanting to do what you set out to do?

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A dose of moderna

A syringe

I have officially had my first dose of Spikevax (Moderna). Yay! Getting vaccinated is another to-do item I have had to tick off my list and it was certainly weighing me down. 

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Celebrating the little things

Gold balloons spelling yay

Why did we ever make it a thing to exclusively hold celebrations for major successes or milestones in our lives?

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