Study well

Study well addresses the themes covered in our workshops on procrastination, navigating uni, criticism, feedback, imposter syndrome, high workload, and burnout.

All of the content in our online resources aligns with the messages in our weekly wellbeing workshops.

Procrastination

• Listen to a podcast from ‘10% Happier’ about how to actually get work done at home.
• Listen to Professor Barbara Oakley talk about learning how to learn, including boosting memory and neutralising procrastination.
• Try out this goal breakdown worksheet to help you achieve goals in small steps and overcome stress and procrastination.
• Read about why boredom can be good for you, and how you can go with the flow and embrace gaps in activity.
• Use the  Pomodoro Technique. for focus and regular breaks
• Habitica is an app to help you motivate yourself to achieve goals, by turning all of your daily tasks in to little monsters you have to conquer.
• SelfControl is a free open source app for macOS that let you block your own access to distracting websites.
• Cold Turkey lets you block applications and enables you to add pomodoro-style breaks or a daily time limit.

Navigating uni

• Check out study skills worksheets and online modules from Student Learning to help you or a friend with study skills.
• Forest is an app to help you stay focused and be present while studying.
• Angela Duckworth talks about grit, the power of passion, and perseverance you can transfer to your studies.
• Take notice, me aro tonu. Remember the simple things that give you joy, from the Mental Health Foundation’s 5 Ways to Wellbeing campaign.

Criticism

• Read about how practicing positive self-talk improves your holistic self-acceptance of both the positive and negative aspects of yourself.
• Try out a series of 9 self-compassion exercises and worksheets for increasing compassion as an effective tool for improving our lives.
• Dr Anna Friss writes about steps to self-compassion and taking self-compassion breaks.
• Listen to an interview about ‘the biggest critic of me is me’, investigating your inner critic and how to make it less punishing.
• Try keeping a gratitude journal to help you combat the inner critic and approach your feelings from a place of curiosity and acceptance.
• Listen to Mamie Morrow talk about how our belief in our own ability to succeed is critical to succeeding.

Feedback

• Read about how practicing positive self-talk improves your holistic self-acceptance of both the positive and negative aspects of yourself.
• Dr Anna Friss writes about steps to self-compassion and taking self-compassion breaks.
• Listen to an interview about ‘the biggest critic of me is me’, investigating your inner critic and how to make it less punishing.

Imposter syndrome

• Listen to an interview about ‘the biggest critic of me is me’, investigating your inner critic and how to make it less punishing.
• Listen to Mamie Morrow talk about how our belief in our own ability to succeed is critical to succeeding.
• Read about what self-efficacy is and try out the quick self-efficacy test.

High workload

• Listen to a podcast about how to actually get work done at home from ‘10% Happier’.
• Try out myHomework student planner that helps you to track and plan upcoming assignments, exams, and projects.
• Forest is an app to help you stay focused and be present while studying.
• Read about what self-efficacy is and try out the quick self-efficacy test.
• Dr Lucy Hones writes about ‘way-power’, the art of identifying obstacles and planning for alternatives using your strengths.
• Listen to Kelly McGonigal talk about using stress to your own benefit.

Burnout

• Listen to a 10-minute guided meditation It’s Ok to Feel This Way.
• Check out how to simplify your life from the School of Life.
• Dr Anna Friiss writes about steps to self-compassion and taking self-compassion breaks.
• Learn how to paint with Bob Ross as he explains tools, colours, and how to paint at home.
• Check out The Joy Project from Radio New Zealand. From spirituality and dancing to pottery and rowing, a group of New Zealanders share what makes them happy.