📖 Subject: French Grammar: Impersonal Verb Constructions
⏳️ Time: 25 minutes
📍Location: The British Library, King's Cross, London
First French exam tomorrow and I just KNOW they're gonna try and catch us out with an impersonal construction in the translation portion. NOT TODAY KCL, NOT TODAY
In retrospect, the student loans thing in Saints Row reboot is fucking hilarious when you think about it. Its actually never mentioned in game despite marketing making it believe its some core plot point, yet everyone who didn't bother touching it but is opinionated on it brings it up constantly as some genuine criticism, completely outing themselves to not have even bothered watching a simple playthrough before forming an opinion
And I will keep going. Because I deserve this. I deserve this degree. I started this fight and I'm going to finish it. I can do this. Depression is lying to me. I am capable. YOU are capable.
There's something to be said about the video game analogy with the struggle of success. Recently, I beat a major final boss in a video game. I won't go into detail for spoilers' sake.
My first attempt, I got obliterated on turn two. I looked up a guide and tried again. I thought I had figured out the pattern, and still got taken out several turns into phase one of a three phase fight. So I backed out, and decided to max out my party's levels and unlock all their skills.
I stepped back from the seemingly impossible situation, and spent three hours grinding. It was boring. It was tedious. But it was necessary, and I knew that. It was all going to be worth it in the end.
There was a point during this three-hour period where I said "The enemies I have to actually fight give me more EXP than the lower level auto-battles, so even though they take more time I'll go for those, too."
I went back to the boss after maxing out everyone's levels and skills, and while I still had to focus and think about my decisions in battle, I won. And there's a really cliche sappy life lesson in that.
This is super freaking cringe and I will not apologize. My ramblings must be freed to the hellsite so I may share motivation or whatever. You can do it, nerds.
STOP NOW. 🫵 This post is going to teach you how to (make sure you 🫶) reach peak motivation and get back on track !!
resources are hyperlinked!!
Firstly, why should I start gamifying my life?
A: It instantly motivates you and encourages long-term motivation to it's game elements (eg: levelling-up) , making reaching goals and doing work so much easier!!
1)Track your progress ✍️
A popular website/app for gamifying your life is HABITICA!
HABITICA a highly customisable habit/to-dos/goal tracker website/app for students and working adults. I use this website for the daily grind, and I can testify that ITS WORKING, I'M ON THE GRIND 💪.
Completing your habits/to-dos/goals gives you coins, which you can spend on rewards (eg: eating ice-cream) and cool armour! You can even join a clan to fight monsters with your friends using your completed tasks.
HABITICA keeps you engaged with a point system, competition with other clans, incorporating game elements, and rewards.
2) Keep consistent 📈🔺
Many seem to reach a plateau in their productiveness or simply lose inerest in their goals and habits.
It's important to keep consistent so habits stick, and we can reach our goal.
[ 💫The consistancy formula 💫]
Identify your motivator
Ask yourself these three questions everyday
What is my motivator?
What will I gain from this?
What will I lose from this?
You can even write this down on your HABITICA as a daily or any other notebook/ website of your choice!!
3. Visualise the outcome of when you have completed your habit/goal/to-do
Running these scenarios adds an extra boost to your gamifying experience, driving you to work towards the outcome of the goal and further away from quitting.
3) Reflect, revise and reward
It's important to take a look at your ticked to-do list at the end of the day and your HABITCA dashboard to see how much you have accomplished.
The visual tracking of progress motivates greatly, and even seeing the rewards you gave yourself can spur you on.
Then, you can decide how much rewards you can have, how much EXP you gained, and how much you can level up. Maybe you even gain a new title ;)
In addition, it's important to reflect on the mistakes you made, for example, it may be overscheduling tasks or rushing through an essay, and deduct EXP and points. (ouch!!)
Improve your gami-life step by step, level by level, and life inexplicably becomes just like a video game.
-cybersugar!! 💗
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i'll totallly try my best to answer EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM 👹 (laughs in burnt-out student)
Just came back from a new year’s get together with my previous host family, and finals are getting scarily close: in exactly a week I’ll be sitting my calculus final.
There’s no time to waste, so I made myself some bubble tea, put on a study with me video (shout out to Tan Yi on yt), and got to work (even if it’s late and I’m tired and I just need this semester to be over)
📖 Subject: French Grammar: Past Participle Agreement
⏳️ Time: 25 minutes
📍Location: Tiraffe Café, Holborn
Back in ny favourite café of the moment, spending my Sunday preparing for my final two exams on Monday and Tuesday! Revising this subject I realised I'd messed up my participle agreement in my French exam last Thursday, but it means I won't make the same mistake on Tuesday, which will be worth 60% of my whole French Core grade!
It's still sunny and hot in London so today I'm wearing one of my fave sun dresses and I feel very fairy like and summery hehe :)