If You Struggle With Anxiety, Overwhelm, Or Just Plain Feeling Like A Failure, I Have A Mantra For You

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

This is possibly the coolest video I’ve ever taken.

Korean Masterlist:

FROMIRELANDTOKOREA’S LESSON MASTERLIST

Seeing as I have a masterlist for ALL of my posts, including resources, books, etc (find it here) I wanted an organised lesson one! I hope this will help everyone! Updated: 13 March 2018

HANGUL/READING:

Lesson 1: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.1 Lesson 2: Hangul Basic Consonants Pt.2 Lesson 3: Hangul Basic Consonants  Lesson 4: Diphthongs Lesson 5: Aspirated and Double Consonants Lesson 6: Batchim Pt.1  Lesson 22: Batchim Pt. 2 NEED TO KNOW:

Lesson 17: How Korean Age Works Lesson 18: Levels of Politeness in Korean Lesson 105: Korean Holiday Chuseok

VOCABULARY:

Lesson 7: Hello, Thank You, Goodbye, Yes and No Lesson 8: I’m Sorry Lesson 9: Please, More, a Little Lesson 14: Native Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 16: Sino-Korean Numbers and Uses Lesson 19: Days of the Week Lesson 20: Months Lesson 21: Body Parts Lesson 23: School Subjects Lesson 24: School Vocabulary Lesson 25: Family Lesson 42: Today, Tomorrow, Now etc. Lesson 58: Vegetables Lesson 59: Fruit Lesson 60: Emotions Lesson 61: Food and Drink Lesson 68: Sports Lesson 69: Places in Town Lesson 79: Animals  Lesson 80: Clothes  Lesson 84: Sickness Pt. 1 Lesson 85: Sickness Pt. 2 Lesson 86: Sickness Pt. 3 Lesson 93: Transportation Lesson 94: Halloween  Lesson 102: The House Lesson 103: Shopping Lesson 106: Dating, Love, Marriage Lesson 107: Random Vocabulary GRAMMAR: Lesson 10: It Is, What is It? Lesson 12: This Is, What is This? Lesson 13: This, That, It, Thing Lesson 26: Have/Don’t Have Lesson 17: 15 Useful Verbs Lesson 27: Present Tense Conjugation Lesson 28: Past Tense Conjugation Lesson 29-32: Future Tense 1 2 3 4 Future Tense Meanings and Examples 1 2 3 4 Lesson 33: How to Form Korean Sentences Lesson 34: Don’t + Verb Lesson 35: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Lesson 36: Topic/Subject Marking Particles ~은/는 + ~이/가 Pt 2 Lesson 37: Object Marking Particle ~을/를 Lesson 38: Want To -고 싶어요 Lesson 39: Location Marking Particles ~어디, ~에, ~에서 Lesson 40: Negative Sentences Lesson 41: Negative Sentences with 하다 Lesson 43: Who? Lesson 44: Why, How, How much? Lesson 45: From - To - , From - Until - Lesson 46: Therefore, So Lesson 47:  And, With ~하고, ~(이)랑 Lesson 48:  But, However, ~그렇지만, ~그런데 Lesson 49:  To/From Someone Lesson 50: Plural Nouns Lesson 51: Telling Time Lesson 53: -지 마세요 (지마) Lesson 54: -(으)세요 Imperative Lesson 55: -아/어/여 주세요 Lesson 56: -도 Too, Also, As Well Lesson 57: -만 Only Lesson 62: Can, Cannot - (으)ㄹ 수 있다/없다 Lesson 63: Present/Past/Future Progressive Lesson 64: A bit, Really, Very, Not really, Not at all Lesson 65: Changing Nouns into Verbs -는 것  Lesson 66: Counters 개 + 명 Lesson 67: To Be Good/Bad At Lesson 70: Have to, Should, Must Lesson 71: Still, Not Yet Lesson 72: Already Lesson 73: (으)로 Lesson 74: If, In Case Lesson 75: Let’s Lesson 76: Pronouns + Possessive Pronouns Lesson 77:ㄹ/을 것: Lesson 78: Doable/Worth Doing Lesson 81: (으)ㅂ시다 Lesson 82: 처럼 Like Lesson 83: More….Than Lesson 87: 좋다 vs 좋아하다 Lesson 88: -ㄴ가 Lesson 89: 다, 더 - All, More Lesson 90: Behind, In Front of, Beside Lesson 91: Written Descriptive Form Adjectives Lesson 92: Before -ing Lesson 95: To be Similar to/The Same as -같다 Lesson 96: To Care/Not Care Pt.1 Lesson 97: To Care/Not Care Pt.2 Lesson 98: Connecting Verbs Lesson 99: Might, Perhaps, It’s Possible Lesson 100: To Want 원하다 Lesson 101: Korean Conjunctions Lesson 104: From A to B Lesson 108: Narrative Tense Lesson 109:  -지/-죠 Lesson 110:  -니 Lesson: 111: -ㅂ/습니까

PHRASES:

Lesson 11: Where Are You From? I’m From Lesson 52: Self Introduction  Lesson 112: Travelling Phrases Pt 1

self discipline tips

here are tips I discovered very recently:

something is better than nothing. 5 minutes of work are better than zero. Just because you missed something on your schedule doesn’t mean you can’t still work on it, even for 5 minutes. Grow and build on this.

second drafts / reviews can be done after.

Don’t think you are going to do your very best work on the first try. Take the weight of perfectionism off your shoulders.

don’t think about doing it. just do it as fast as you can.

build on your productivity, not your failures.

If you come from a past of procrastinating and now feel motivated to change and discipline yourself, do NOT try to do everything at once.

if you have a set of different goals to accomplish, begin with the most important one. Wait until the rotine of working for that one settles in (you feel productive and comfortable-ish), and then begin with the next. Repeat.

this way you’ll be building your way up and not juggling everything at the same time, hoping everything works out.

be patient with yourself, you’ll get there!

set smaller deadlines for your goals

have monthly and weekly-ish deadlines

e.g. if you are doing a project, due 22nd Feb, set personal deadlines, like have Introduction written by 2nd Feb, have Methods written by 10th Feb, have project complete by 18th Feb.

take them as seriously as you possibly can, don’t miss out on yourself.

write realistic daily tasks and don’t stop until you finish them. after them you can do whatever you want

on writing realistic daily tasks, the secret is knowing you can only do so much in one day, but trusting you can accomplish everything in the course of any period of time (a week, or 2 weeks or a month, etc.) because you will combine the work from all these different days.

it’s very tempting to write down all the tasks you need to accomplish in one day to just get over with it, but the real deal is you won’t accomplish half of them. You’ll feel very unproductive then, wich leads to demotivation.

spread daily tasks in the time necessary.

have a consistent sleep schedule.

if your mind isn’t ready everything will fall apart.

have one rest day per week where you plan nothing, do whatever you want except studying. this can be harder than you expect!

(don’t forget these are effective only if you actually put them into practice! good luck babes!!)

when the speaker suddenly says something relevant to my research

How to read an academic paper. :)