Great Things Are Done By A Series Of Small Things Brought Together

great things are done by a series of small things brought together 

Just a friendly reminder

1. You are not your grades.

2. You are allowed to do less than your best sometimes.

3. When your mental health is in the balance, submit the work you’ve done. Or walk away and come back. If your work is less than perfect this one time, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to excel.

4. It is okay to ask for an extension. Check your prof’s policies in the syllabus, but sometimes profs will give you an extension just for asking 24 hours in advance of the deadline. No explanations needed.

5. Even when you fail, you will still be able to succeed. One failure does not make you a failure.

6. You will not be seen as less worthy because of one less-than-perfect grade.

7. Your character is not determined by the work you produce.

8. If you forget to submit an assignment, you’ll be okay. Learn from it, and put it behind you.

9. As Newt Scamander put it, ‘worrying only means you suffer twice.’ Learn to let go.

10. Sleep. Eat. Drink water. Breathe. Scream if you have to, cry if you want to. Remind yourself you are human, and you are alive.

11. Dance to songs you love. Buy yourself a flower just because. You deserve happiness, regardless of anything that happened.

12. It is not weakness to ask for help. If you feel like you need to reach out, do so.

13. You are more than a letter on an assignment. You are a valued human being. And I believe in you.

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

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so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.