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ADHD and Motivation: Birthday Edition Posted by: Astan23 Category: Schedule Events Date: December 11, 2024 Comments: 0 Comments I love sporadic baking.  Apparently, I also love running out of steam half-way through.  How many times have you had the whole day to bake, only to find you no longer have the energy or desire to decorate the cake?  The truth is, the focus necessary for measuring ingredients, the time between spent waiting, and then the sugar rush all eat up the grand inspirational pizzazz you had when you started. Now to mention, the standing, the light, and the playlists all start to wear you down and mess with your vision.   In this birthday-themed blog post, I will share my style: The Preparation Method , which addresses event preparation, energy disbursement, and rejection sensitivity, in regard to baking a birthday cake. Why is Mercury in Retrograde?      My birthday is on Monday, and that's when I'm celebrating with my parents, bu...

My Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) Final is Monday (2 days away!) Personal Set Up My course required Anatomy & Physiology The Unity of Form and Function Saladin's 9th Edition. My school uses Canvas as the platform for lecture slides, quizzes, and assessments.  I teetered between an B+ and an A. Right now I have a 90.37% (but let's see how finals go) An A is possible for a lot of students if they study effectively I feel if I had created flashcards for on the chapter assignments per chapter I would have given myself something to study instead of cramming for each LAB quiz.  Writing the Lab Quiz Grade I want on my whiteboard helped me have a goal. Then, if I did not achieve my goal, I would not beat myself up about it.  My academic skills tutor suggested drawing the (Coccyx) and labeling its parts without the book - this would have saved me for the skeleton bony landmarks! Here are my takeaways for studying/reviewing A & P for the first semester as a freshman...