Your Future Self

There isn’t one thing in life that your future self won’t have the choice to improve from.

Coursework, for me currently, isn’t about how quickly I can get everything passed. It’s about taking in the information, extending my knowledge for days ahead, and being able to get a pass mark when sufficient information is used in my assignments, while knowing I’ve given my best work each time I submit anything.

So often we want things to have finished before they’ve started.

It’s not really common to think about the journey.

The focus seems to be the end result and the feelings that come with official achievements.

Im guilty! I do this so much too!

But I want to be able to learn and that means slow and steady progress.

Keeping yourself accountable, staying in some sort of routine that you know when work is due or assessed.

But also allowing time to reset when feeling a little bit discouraged. Again, I am guilty or giving up before the feedback is even read from my tutor. I feel so desperate for the pass mark so I can continue.

For some people, including myself, having corrections sometimes gets us discouraged and feeling defeated.

That is our critical thinking niggling away at the joy we thought we would feel when getting our results.

Not feeling we worked hard enough turns into the thought that we as individuals aren’t good enough. That just isn’t true.

Allow yourself to take a step back for a second…

Create a separation between critical thinking and the facts.

They’re battling right now, and we need to focus on the information we know to be true and supported by evidence.

To make a mistake is to have room for improvement. That doesn’t mean you are wrong.

There’s always space for change.