GEORGIA CAM SESSIONAL ACADEMIC, RESEARCH ASSISTANT AND TUTOR

When you are learning content, you may fall behind on your assignments. When you are completing your assignments, you may fall behind on your readings. When you are catching up in one unit, you may fall behind in another. There are always more readings, more revision and more research that can be done.

This cycle will become a little too familiar for many of you, so my advice to you is simple. When you feel overwhelmed by your workload, take a breath, write down a set of obtainable weekly goals, prioritise them, create a weekly schedule, and at the at the end of the week, give yourself a break.

Yes, I want you to actually schedule a break after your week of tasks is complete. A balanced and healthy mind is a prolific mind, so it is actually productive to allow yourself some down time.

I hope that you find ways to seek joy from your weekly schedule. Maybe you like to schedule in some time to cook your favourite meal on a weeknight, or you decide to schedule in your readings on Friday so that you can enjoy a relaxing morning on Saturday. Maybe you find colour-coding your schedule really satisfying (I certainly do), or you enjoy writing your schedule on a whiteboard so that you can tick off tasks as you go.

All of these little things can make a huge difference in your mindset. Once you find strategies that work for you, they can form part of your daily habits that help you maintain a healthy mind for life.