The New Year

Happy New Year to you all! 

I hope that you had a fantastic start of the new calendar and left all your unwanted "goods" back in 2017. 

 For me, a New Year is a year to challenge yourself further in comparison to the accomplishments you did or didn't do in the last previous years. It's sort of a way that helps you build yourself on top of everything else you've experienced.

 From the top of my head, Bucket Lists might be a good example. Instead of "New Years Resolutions", I think bucket lists are better because 1) they're an on going process 2) you don't necessarily have to accomplish all of them in one go 3)You can add to the list whenever and wherever 4) If you're not ready to face on of the things on the list, you can skip it for next time when you are ready. 

I can go on with the various lists but in conclusion, bucket lists are just less of a stress and you're not really forcing yourself to do something, instead you're giving yourself life goals to accomplish within your life time. By doing this, I believe that in the end you're going to feel like you have lived life to the fullest as you would have spent each year (atleast) trying to better yourself in facing a challenge for yourself. 

....there is also the resolution to make better bad decisions so cheers :)

xxx

Revision

Sorry to scare you on the startling title but "the sooner the better" 

If you want to achieve the best grades possible we need to start now.  You need to start now.

This blog post is here to somewhat inspire you in a way that will remove your initial thought about "revising", "learning" and "school" 

First things first you need to get up and write up the general core knowledge you know on a sheet of paper. It could either be in a format of a mind map or a list (whatever suits you) After you have written your core knowledge about the subject you're revising for, you can create flash cards or buy some (again, whatever your heart desires) In this case I went out to WHsmith and bought some flash cards which were on a good price deal. 

With the flash cards you will break down all the general core knowledge you know into little sections  or categories so that everything is well organised. When I first started to write on my flash cards I sort of found it difficult on how to layout my knowledge and information. However you will not need to worry because I have found a way! Firstly on the top, you should write the title of  the subject (as mentioned above) and draw a line in the middle to section your flashcard with the keywords and the recall questions you will create. At the back of the flash card, you can write out the answers to the recall questions and draw out a diagram (if needed) so that you are able to visualise what you are talking about.  Lastly, make your flash cards colourful but not too colourful as it can confuse your eyes. Using different colour highlighters, highlight the most important things.

Your all set now! Don't worry, once you've started you wont regret it. Trust me. 

Look at the the pictures I took below to help you in case you didn't quite understood what I meant. 

Thank you for reading till the end.

I wish you all good luck for any sort of exam you're about to take, just remember if you put your mind to it, you are able to achieve it. Marginal gains are what its all about, meaning that what ever you do ie: get a detention or miss a day off school, it will affect your marginal gain negatively but making flash cards will positively affect your marginal gain.

See you soon in the next post

Going offline now

xoxo