Strategies for dealing with this challenge
Concentration and focus are two of the most important things needed for study. Distractions can be overwhelming in lockdown. Ask yourself: What is distracting me; is it external or internal?
The main offender of external distraction comes from noise.
Strategies for dealing with this challenge
External distractions such as social media, YouTube and apps on your phone can also be disruptive.
Try to resist…don’t watch this video.
Did you watch it? It’s almost impossible not to watch…it’s addictive.
Strategies for dealing with this challenge
We all live complex and engaged lives and sometimes life problems get in the way. It is important to deal with your problems at a specific time and in a supportive place.
Ruminating is a state of overthinking, repetitive thinking, going over and over a problem in ever decreasing circles; but getting nowhere.
Strategies for dealing with this challenge
Some students have children and families to look after whilst they are trying to study. Some students live alone. Every student is in a unique and different circumstance.
Strategies for dealing with this challenge
Strategies for dealing with this challenge:
Typically, a student will go through the following stages when writing an assignment:
The strategy is that you go through each of your assignments and plan into your calendar mini milestones. For example, ‘for assignment one, I want to have completed the researching reading and plan by next week. For assignment two I want to have understood the brief by next week’.
In this way If you break each assignment down into parts of a process that you can enter each part into your calendar and tick them off as you reach. This strategy makes it is easier to juggle many assignments at once.