No matter how much progress you’ve made with your study skills this year, and no matter how motivated you are to continue to build on that progress through the rest of the year, I’m sure there have been times when you’ve wondered how you can possibly keep it up. Whether you’ve experienced setbacks with your …
As you well know by now if you’ve read many of my posts, one of the main goals of my website is to help you develop your study skills so you can become more successful with your studies. I have mentioned that becoming more successful does not mean getting all “A”s, but I have not …
In addition to the phrase “you have potential,” which I wrote about in a previous post, another thing teachers, parents, and other well-meaning adults might say to try to encourage you in your studies, which you will probably find even more frustrating to hear than that you have potential, is that you are lazy. Unlike …
In addition to the increased use of technology to complete schoolwork in recent years, there has also been a decreased use of pencils for the completion of work that doesn’t rely on technology, and it is something that I have never understood. I can still remember the thrill of being allowed to use a pen …
No matter how focused a student you already are, or how hard you’ve worked to improve your focus along with your other study skills this school year, winter can be a very hard time to keep yourself motivated. This winter, I imagine, must seem longer than just about any other you’ve ever experienced, since it …
Of all the things teachers, parents, and other well-meaning adults might say to try to encourage you in your studies, perhaps one of the most frustrating is “you have potential.” If anyone has ever said this to you, and you have reacted negatively to it, rest assured that my take on it, as with so …
As you may know by now if you’ve read all or most of my posts, I am a proponent of building your study skills by figuring out what does and does not work for you in various situations, as opposed to following one particular program or applying one particular strategy to everything you do. In …
Even if you have been taking my advice and making some progress with your study skills this school year, I’m sure many of you are still quite tempted to tune out when you see the title of this post. I am not the first person to recommend that you complete some of your schoolwork on …
In my last post, I discussed the importance of taking responsibility for your schoolwork, both successes and failures, and how making sure to give yourself credit for positive outcomes can help you take responsibility for negative ones. I don’t know if you noticed it, but the one word I did not use in that entire …
If you are someone who has struggled with your studies in any way, I imagine you’ve heard, from teachers, parents, or both, that you need to take responsibility for your work. Maybe someone has actually accused you of being irresponsible- when work is missing or late, when you don’t contribute enough to a group project, …
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