The final week of STRIVE before the end of semester break!
STRIVERS you are nearly there. Your assessments are looming, and you may be feeling anxious.
In this final week we focus on improving your managing your anxiety and stress – so that you can develop strategies to be as calm as you can be around the assessment period and perform to your best ability.
The first thing I want to encourage STRIVERS to do is micro-tasking – make an action as small and clear as you can. Work through your micro-tasks and you will feel a great sense of accomplishment
Apply Your Thinking:
This small change can make a big difference to your anxiety around tasks that you have to do:
- Identify the argument
- Write is as one single-concept sentence
- Edit it down to as short and clear as possible
Plan your day – what are you going to do. Start with a relatively easy micro-task to achieve – you will get a great sense of achievement!
- Set daily manageable chunks of activity for the day
- Start day with easy micro-task to get a nice sense of achievement
- Exercise the 2-minute rule for new habits/micro-tasks. Do new things for 2 mins to start with – continue to practice, daily if needed – extend the two minutes as time goes on – You need to ‘standardise to optimise”
- Show yourself compassion if you don’t achieve everything on your list
- Listen to your inner voice -write things down, e.g. affirmations on your wall or in your book, if you are feeling anxious speak to us, speak with your PAL and/or peer guide, STRIVE Ambassadors or email us on strive@mmu.ac.uk
- Revise your calendar at the end of each day- feeling ready for the next day in control
Note:
Don’t get distracted
This helped enhance my concentration
According to research, micro tasking reduces anxiety