felt more comfortable with my study routine. Studying is something you don 't inherit it takes the time to develop a good study habit that works for you. The motivation to study is your decision you can’t force someone to do it. It depends on what you plan on gaining from studying and do you have a goal. The goal is to get good grades. Have you ever wondered why people who don’t study seem to pass the test with no problems? Well, I wasn’t one of those people in high school honestly studying was never something I got use to until I attended college. S Q R W…
academic endeavors. I believe that is it possible to learn to combat some my bad habits when it comes to studying and building a sound itinerary for my academic future. High school did not prepare me for “the real world” the world of working professionals. It did not arm me with the skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, nor did it direct me to tools where I look for those skills on my own. I accumulated good factual knowledge in the areas of sciences and liberal arts, but no good…
Life makes people make major decisions and some of those decisions will be for the better and some will make your life worse. Trauma can lead to having to make these decisions. Like if the everyone around you makes you angry in a major way you could choose to isolate yourself from them or you could face them and later move on from them. In the film “Finding Forrester” the director Gus Van Sant utilizes character development to suggest the idea that isolation is psychologically harmful to people.…
The Habit Loop In his book The Power of Habit (2012), Duhiggs explains “this process within our brain is a three-step loop” (p. 19). That is, the three essential components that make up this ‘habit loop’ are as follows: a cue, a routine, and a reward. Beginning with the first step, a cue is a trigger that overrides the brain to enter an automatic and involuntary mode, before determining which habit to carry out. In this case, an alarm clock going off would be the cue. Clearly, the blaring alarm…
Choices Become Habits Which Become Lifestyles Stressed. Wobbly. Uneasy. Shaky. Triggered. Pull out cigarette. Light up. Inhale. Exhale. Function again. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat again to the point that even the slightest inconvenience is what prompt the cycle. This particular example is in reference to something that unfortunately a whopping “36.5 million Americans” (CDC article, sect. 2) suffer with-- the endless habit of smoking cigarettes. Although every single human being…
If I am able to change my sleep habit, I will be able to be healthier, more concentrated in school and, as a result, I will have better grades. On the other hand, I will spend less time with my family, I will have less time to go out to the movies, for example, and I will be absent when I can help others. In my chart, I present to have more importance in my pros than in my con, according to my scores from 1 to 5, because at the moment being healthier and do better in school is more important…
People have many habits that they have throughout their life, many have the habit of biting their nails when they’re nervous. Another example would be to follow the appropriate paths in life that will give them the best in life. However, the three habits that Junior achieved throughout the book are habits that improved his life. In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a young teenage boy named Junior who is being brought down by the past lives of his family members…
Aliefs are beliefs, a personal set of attitudes made up about different concepts, which are either habitual in nature or automatic. Aliefs become known to a person either consciously or unconsciously after being exposed to a situation that goes against prior beliefs. These aliefs are usually made up of a thought process through linked association. The example the article used was the drinking out of a bed pan. Based on what bed pans are used for, most people associate them with being dirty or…
EATING MINDFULLY Mindfully eating is actually a habit of eating using your mind and having control on your hunger. You should have control of your eating habits. If you eat mindfully so it becomes very positive for your body to lose weight and become slim and smart. If you want to lose weight then you should be focused on your present remember your past and think for the future. Because you should be aware then how you gained weight in the past and what should you do in the present to lose…
if you want to be able to perform at your best. Sports has a lot to do with practicing but if you do not eat right or take care of your body you won’t be able to compete at your best. Students need to understand the importance of a strong and healthy athletic performance is more than the training and has a lot to do with the day to day eating habits and dieting, calories, that are taken in and the recovery time. Do athletes know that they need to have good eating habits and a good diet?…