Personal Development
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Working 25 Hours a Day, 9 Days a Week
Learn to manage your workload more efficiently ‘New Year, New Me’ is all well and good when you talk about working harder but sometimes you need to manage your own expectations. Whether you’re working a full time job, part time job or still in school, there’s always a chance of burning out if you don’t…
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Setting Goals for 2018
Blog Goals | Twitter | Current: 654 followers Goal: 2000 followers Anyone else feel like a bad blogger when they miss Twitter chats? Every single time I turn up about 40 minutes too late because I’ve forgotten again but hopefully this year I will push myself to use Twitter more. | Instagram | Current: 490…
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Adulting: Am I Ready?
Today I turn 21 and I remember a whole year ago thinking ‘Now I’m officialy no longer a teenager’. I moved out to go to university and I even lived on my own during second year. But, I just dont feel like I’m being an ‘adult’ properly still, even with my full time work placement.…
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How to Motivate Yourself When You Feel Like Doing Nothing
We all have those days right? You have loads of work that needs doing but all you want to do is veg out and watch TV. Focus on the end result Instead of all the little things you need to do to complete your goals, think of what you will achieve in the end. If…
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Why You Need a LinkedIn Profile As a Uni Student
Regardless of whether you’re in a career, have a job or are a student. LinkedIn can be a vital resource for networking and helping you achieve your professional goals. Even if you’re unsure of what those goals are right now. Your LinkedIn profile is a place to show off all your achievements and successes. I…
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How To Actually Complete That To-Do List
As a university student with a lot of other commitments I have to schedule my time a lot. In order to help schedule my time, I use a to-do list. I used to spend waste so much time writing my to do list’s out, every week, sometimes every day. This wasn’t working as I was procrastinating…
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Study Tips
So it’s that time of year again where cramming information into your brain seems impossible. The looming dread of exams has already stressed me out and I have not motivation to study. So instead I decided to write blog posts and share some study tips for those who are productive. A quiet room Stop distractions…
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How To Stay Motivated When Job Hunting
As many of you will know, I spent 6 months applying for placements until I finally got one. Job hunting was extremely demotivating at times, and I was exhausted by December. But, despite this, I kept applying and going for interviews and assessment centres. Eventually, I got an amazing opportunity to work for EA as…
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Being an Introvert Doesnt Make Me a Bad Person
I am most definitely introverted. For my entire life, this has been a problem for people. From teachers who want me to speak in class (even though I always did well in school) to interviewers who assumed I couldn’t do my job because I’m ‘too shy’. I’ve been told to be louder, to speak up…