smh... student motivation hints

Bored? Tired? Tired of the same old things? SPICE IT UP. Novelty is super exciting for our brains, and you can actually create this for yourself! Change your environment, change your methods and process. Start a new habit, get outside, stand up, study differently, discuss your homework, do work in a different room. You can trick your brain to have more fun and be more focused by giving it something new. 

Can you control everything in you life? Can you change your mistakes in the past? Can you control your perspective and emotions and your actions right now? Carefully and accurately dissecting any situation can expose whether you are wasting your time with regret or complaints when you SHOULD be focused on the future and SOLUTIONS. 

It's so hard to conceptualize the future, and to make sacrifices in the present to make your future self proud, but that's what we know we should do! Instant gratification is great for right now, and your brain is wired for that, but as humans we have a unique ability to understand how to plan for our future success and happiness.

Life is all about the grind, right? Well, kinda... when we make time for the things that we LOVE, it gasses us up for all the other things that aren't as wonderful. Devote even a small amount of time and ENERGY to something that brings you pure joy. Also, can you find some small part of a tough task that you love and focus more on THAT???

Is your grade injured? Is your mental health injured? Is you motivation injured? Everyone knows what you have to do when you get a sports injury, specific & focused physical therapy! But it's the same thing for any issue when anything in life is "broken" or "injured". Take specific therapeutic actions every day that get you back to being fully functional and that slow process might just actually make you BETTER than before!

The podcast origin story: who is your host Rutherford, and why does he make this podcast? 

Feel like you focus on the negatives too much? It's natural, but it's not helpful. Give yourself the positive feedback you need to focus on what you are proud of accomplishing, and the progress you HAVE made, even if you're not totally there yet. This positivity will be WAY more effective in pushing you to do more!

How your view yourself is your CHOICE, and it is so powerful. Choose to be positive, motivated, supporting, healthy. You will find that if you think you are a type of person, you will be that person- negative or positive, good or bad. It's so easy, so simple, and if you focus on being the type of person that engages in positive actions and thoughts, then all of a sudden it starts to happen!

Stuck in a rut? Stuck in your house or your room or a bad mood? Stuck in depression, anxiety, laziness? Failing classes? YOU have the power to get out of anything, either literally walking outside, or mentally moving on. It's so powerful, I DARE you to try it...

(Yes, we went there...) Maybe you're thinking about it all wrong, focusing on the wrong dates?! If something is due on friday, that means you need to start thinking about when you actually have time to DO it waaaaaay before friday. We're all busy, and our productivity can come in waves. You know what works best for you, so organize your stuff based on DOing, not the DUE dates...