Grandad's Gems - Grandad AO's Blog

  HOW TO STUDY, even when you can't. First of all I think we should address some of the few reasons why you haven't done any work. Please take in mind this is written for people who are in a good place mentally, if your mental health isn't good at the moment then it is a valid reason for you to put off work in my eyes. This may not be for you so I would suggest that you read the mental health piece I have written here about how to improve it.  1. You feel as if you shouldn't be doing work, you believe that because we're in a pandemic school should not be giving you all of this work to do right now and because of that, you refuse to do it, like a silent protest.  2. The reason you can't do work is that it isn't a priority for you. There are all of these other things you would rather be doing like being on social media, playing video games, exercising, going on walks etc. So you just keep putting your work to the side to do all of the things which you want to ...

  BEING LOW MAINTENANCE AT UNIVERSITY -  MY EXPERIENCE IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T LIKE YOU, IT'S JUST THAT I DON'T NEED TO TALK TO YOU. When you are low maintenance surrounded by so many people who used to the norm of everyone being high maintenance, a lot of people will think that you don't like them because you don't message them. Especially at university, everybody is making new friends and trying to create new bonds, and I understand that but to me, I do not see the point of messaging you when there is nothing important to talk about. In university we are going to see each other every couple of days anyway, so what is the point?  Some people may say that we have communication issues and maybe there's truth to that. I can personally go months, maybe a year without talking to some of my closest friends. Of course, there will be the exchange of birthday messages but that could easily be it. Maybe it's because of how my relationship with family members has be...

DON'T STRESS I feel like we (yes I'm included) needed a reminder not to stress. It's so easy to feel under pressure or threatened with things that go on in our lives but we really need to do our best to stress as little as possible.  I don't know anyone who stress is good for. Likely due to the fact that it's not good for anyone.  Now I know that there are many people who excel when under pressure, but stress and pressure is not the same thing.  So here are a couple things which can help anyone deal with stress: - Exercise  - Challenge negative thoughts  - Plan big days & split up tasks  - Tell someone about it I want everyone to know that if you are feeling stressed, you will eventually get through it. There's nothing wrong with looking in the mirror and affirming to yourself that 'Even though I am stressed right now, I will get through this'. This definitely works for me because I know that if I exer...