so let me guess you've just gotten home from school and you're determined to finally be
productive for once and get some studying done so you pop down at your desk spend around an
hour having a snack spend another half an hour making a perfect to-do list and then rewriting it
spend another hour on social media or watching netflix and then finally start studying only to
fall asleep at your desk after five minutes of work and unfortunately at least in my case this
didn't just happen once this would be regularly happening after school especially high school
when i was completely tired all the time so how do you finally be productive after school is the
answer 40 cups of coffee or maybe a foolproof contraption that won't let you fall asleep
well while i can't answer for everyone of course in this video i'll go over some tips
and methods that i developed in high school that have helped me ever since stay productive
after school and be more energetic even when i'm deadly tired and don't feel like doing anything
so first off i highly recommend establishing a routine and in my case and i feel like this
might be for a lot of people there were two possible ways for this to go so in junior year
my after school routine almost always consisted of naps this was primarily because that was
my peak time of drinking 500 cups of coffee a day leading to lots of problems like insomnia
high levels of anxiety so a bonus tip is i highly recommend not overdoing it with the caffeine so
if you're going to sleep like i was at around two in the morning and waking up at like 6 30 in the
morning it's unfortunately pretty unrealistic to expect a lot of yourself immediately after school
especially when you've already been doing eight plus hours of setting so something that
worked for me was doing power naps or actually sleeping a bit usually one to two hours and and
i would usually do this pretty much almost right immediately after school but in the long run if
you're more of a night owl and you know you'll be studying a lot during the evening hours this can
be really essential for getting your energy back up especially if you're chronically sleep deprived
so if you're like me starting senior year of high school where you have a more normalized
sleep schedule then instead the first thing i do when i'm coming home is exercise for around
15 to 20 minutes not too long since especially senior year i had absolutely no time overall
it just really helps you get up and wake up after 12 plus hours of sitting all day long
and then right after that i usually would either have dinner or some kind of snack
consisting of carbs and protein to fill myself up with some energy
and then usually an hour after arriving home i would finally start studying
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so something that always really helped me be productive after school and still helps me
to this day is making a to-do list but usually when i was in in-person school i would try to
do the to-do list actually at school whenever i would have free time so that i wouldn't waste my
time at home because especially when i was younger i would genuinely use planning as
a form of procrastination and if you're like me and you kind of struggle to always stick to the
times that you set for yourself and your time routine then something i recommend doing is
making a prioritized to-do list so i instead break down all the tasks that i have planned for the day
so it's not just one giant task at a time but lots of small broken down tasks by priority
since i don't have unlimited time and this just helps me see everything in bite-size
chunks so that it's not overwhelming and i'm not that likely to procrastinate
and finally something that really helps me is reverse planning or tracking where instead of
planning out your ideal schedule after school that you're probably not going to stick to
i instead write down what i actually accomplished in the afternoon and then i keep a log of it so
you can have it in your bullet journal you can have it in your notes app you can have
it on a piece of paper somewhere see how much progress you've been making see that you've
actually been getting things done after school and not feel so bad and also see
how much you can realistically accomplish in an afternoon versus your ideal version in your
head and you can focus on just trying to be a little bit better today than you were yesterday
so something that i also find helpful is using hot cold showers this really helps
me wake up honestly i use these all the time especially when i'm in finals week or just
really tired for whatever reason and honestly i find these even more effective than caffeine
which again i recommend not loading up too much on
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