5 Ways To Survive the Working World / Studying

1. Reward yourself

Set a deadline for every goal you have. It's best to sit down on a Sunday night or Monday morning and just take 10 to 15 minutes to plan out your entire week's agenda. Immediately set a deadline for every major/ most important goal or task that you have to do. For every 2 weeks do something nice for yourself, it could be anything you like whether buying that something extra special for yourself that you've always wanted, treat yourself to an at home facial, or even going on a weekend getaway. It doesn't even have to be something huge or expensive, my husband loves to just wind down with his favourite game after a hard day.

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If you want to buy something for yourself but you're too tired to even get out of the house, you can always shop online. Check out my blog post about how to go about it, if you're an online shopping virgin.

2. Get Organized

Use the SMART method to set clear and specific goals. 

If you're like me, big projects/ assignments can be really intimidating and sometimes you get overwhelmed to even start the whole thing. Therefore, break it up to smaller tasks or goals to make it more actionable. Create a list of all those milestones in your project and make sure to tick them one by one after you're done. At which point you apply Step 1 and reward yourself whenever you reach another milestone in your project!

3. Self-care is important

My job involves being around and teaching kids with learning difficulties. At times these kids can be a little handful as they're frustrated over their difficulties in the subjects learned and may even lash out on me. I stopped thinking that I have any control over how they're feeling or behaving. Of course I should do everything in my power as a teacher to create a positive environment for the kids to express theirselves and I should also be empathetic but how they behave shouldn't be taken personally. This is something that I feel is transferrable to any job. Putting yourself first and stop thinking that you have any control over how other people behave is a great step to becoming happier at the workplace. 

4. Cut Off Your Work

Your working hours exist for a reason. Strive to only work during these hours. If you absolutely must bring your work home, do set a specific time or duration for you to complete it. Anything more than that allocated time? Screw it. Really. Same thing with studying set a specific time during the day for you to concentrate all your studying efforts, going to class and finishing up assignments, for example from 9am-5pm  everyday and completely unwind and forget about everything after 5 pm. Discipline is key to make sure you really do work within the allocated time. 

5. Regular exercise

No matter how little you must do some sort of physical activity weekly. Say whatever you want, this is purely scientific. The more you work up a sweat the more endorphins your body produce and the happier you'll be. Furthermore, no one can be productive all the time, sometimes we need time off from the work desk to become more efficient at the workplace.