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 ...

 How To Create Or Break A Habit  This blog is made to give you the information you need to make or break a habit.  Using this I’ve successfully been able to make going to the gym a habit and break bad eating habits  Therefore by the end of this blog, you will know how to create a good habit you desire or break a bad habit you currently have.  At the epicentre of every habit is a neurological loop. This neurological loop consists of three parts which are: Cue - routine - reward  Cue is the thing that triggers the loop. These can be hard to identify when breaking a habit. So it’s best to deal with the other two first when trying to break a habit. When creating a habit this is the thing which we are going to use to trigger the habit we want to create. Routine is the most obvious part, it’s the behaviour you want to develop, change or stop/prevent. Rewards. Rewards satisfy cravings, and cravings can drive our behaviour. You have to experiment with rewards to se...

WHY YOU NEED TO LEVEL UP! - THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF DEVELOPMENT I want to be clear that this blog isn't intended to make you feel anxious or negatively impact you in any way. My only wish is that it motivates you to want to level up! Now. Remember that dream.  That nightmare where you couldn’t keep up with your parents (or someone close to you) while they were walking and they just left you where you were.  Left you behind. Abandoned.  That’s exactly what’s going to happen if we don’t level up. The friends and family around us are all chasing their dreams trying to achieve greatness. This means they are constantly improving themselves, fixing their flaws, strengthening their weaknesses, dropping toxic traits. This is levelling up. We have to do the same. We have to learn about ourselves, we need to know our weaknesses & strong points so our weaknesses don't hold us back. That our toxic traits don't break us and the people around us down! Why not be the one to help your...

What to do in self-isolation   Welcome back growth family, this blog is about what to do in self-isolation and its purpose is to inspire action from you! Firstly, the utmost important thing is your mental health, so please understand that if you are dealing with any mental health issues I do not mean to pressure you into thinking you need to do a whole load of things when you are already facing issues.  Now. Most of our obligations are in hold due to self-isolation. so we have that one thing which so many of us never value. That thing which we don't even know how much of it we have left. The same thing we can never get back. TIME. We finally have the time to sit down and do what we actually want to do. Understand that I'm not saying everyone has to start a hustle or a business of any kind but we all have our goals for the year. We can spend more time working on them. Review your 2020 plan. How can you excel it? Does it need to change? You want to go to a particular industry? R...

  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...

KNOW YOURSELF What’s good everyone? Want to know what I think is good? Knowing yourself is. I feel like in today's day and age people are beginning to realise the importance of emotional intelligence and I believe knowing yourself is connected to that when it comes to you as an individual.  It's of extreme importance to know yourself because even though there are people who are there for you, it's only you who goes through everything you go through. Every single, up, down, win, loss and challenge you encounter. If you don't know yourself you will find it hard to take care of and better yourself, therefore, I would advise everyone to study themselves. It is a necessity. Learning about myself has helped me overcome bad habits and mental struggles. I know that I love Oreos. This may seem minuscule compared to your struggles but there have been many times I’ve had a bad day then said let me buy some Oreos to cheer me up. This may sound silly to some pe...