- Build your study stamina
- Strike a balance in wellbeing and ambition
There is a delicate balance between having high ambitions ...
... and setting unrealistic goals.
If you drive yourself hard, in pursuit of success, it is all the more important to build on your core strengths.
That includes building study stamina, health and resilience – and being able to recognise when you are under too much strain.
There is a delicate balance between having high ambitions and setting unrealistic goals.
If you drive yourself hard, in pursuit of success, it is all the more important to build-on your core strengths.
That includes building study stamina, health and resilience – and being able to recognise when you are under too much strain.
There is a delicate balance between having high ambitions and setting unrealistic goals.
If you drive yourself hard, in pursuit of success, it is all the more important to build-on your core strengths.
That includes building study stamina, health and resilience – and being able to recognise when you are under too much strain.
There is a delicate balance between having high ambitions and setting unrealistic goals.
If you drive yourself hard to achieve success, or if you juggle many demands, it is all the more important to build your core strength. That includes building study stamina, health and resilience – and being able to recognise when you are under too much strain.
Do you...?
- Give yourself strong messages about what you ‘must’ achieve or ‘should be’?
- Feel you must say ‘yes’ to every opportunity and request?
- Get stressed when you can’t achieve everything you set out to do?
Some challenge is good, but consider your limits and how you will recognise when you are approaching these.
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Do you...?
- Give yourself strong messages about what you ‘must’ achieve or ‘should be’?
- Feel you must say ‘yes’ to every opportunity and request?
- Get stressed when you can’t achieve everything you set out to do?
Some challenge is good, but consider your limits and how you will recognise when you are approaching these.
Review the approaches to goal-setting below. If you feel a particular approach might work for you, check the box next to it to add to a list of 'Favourites' which you can then save to your journal or download.
It is good to be ambitious, but do so with self-awareness. Consider well what is really manageable for you just now. Give success every chance, without holding too tightly to particular outcomes.
Be alert to changes in your mood, emotions and behaviour. Take a look at how to bring some self-kindness to your study.
Use goals to provide direction and motivation. If they become oppressive rather than inspiring, create a more balanced set of targets.
If your health or wellbeing starts to suffer, pause and rethink the demands you are making of yourself.
If you can’t see a way of resolving difficulties, talk to a student advisor for an objective perspective.
It’s great to be open to new experiences and to be willing to help – but you have to say ‘no’ if you just can’t take on any more.
An important part of setting to-do lists and multi-tasking is deciding what not to do!
If there are things that really can’t be fixed, it is possible to learn to live with these. A combination of support, self-care and a positive attitude can help.
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