Day 11: Today: draw Made acceptable progress. Fell behind my schedule to a moderate degree, but completed enough to just be an acceptable day. Main issue was just that I redownloaded instagram this morning because I had a group chat on it that i needed to respond to. made the mistake of not deleting it immediately so that derailed the day. I'm finding that once again, use of phone during breaks is one of the biggest negative catalysts in my day. Yesterday I remained off my phone during my lunch break and got back into that state of sort of enlightenment (dumb way to put it but that is what it felt like). realistically, that is just the power of not having the incessant interruption of a phone at all times. I think tomorrow I want to try that experiment I used a few months ago where I just spoke aloud all of my decisions to make myself consider whether that is really what i wanted to do. Experiment Create daily plan the night before to give absolute certainty around the day, delete social media, turn on greyscale, and ensure alarm is set. Anytime I make a decision that may interfere with the day, rationalise it out loud so I can make an informed decision

Day 10 Result - really good day, found the main gaps in about half of the chemistry syllabus and filled them. Probably another 1-1.5 days of solid focus will see me through the entire syllabus which will give me nearly 2 weeks to just refine responses and exam technique. The only problem has been sleep recently. Have been waking up a little later than I would usually like and have been taking a bit to get going in the morning. Have concluded that the experiment of letting myself sleep for as long as my body wants isn't ideal. will resume setting the alarm early, and will combat the fatigue that comes up as it happens. Create daily plan the night before to give absolute certainty around the day, delete social media, turn on greyscale, and ensure alarm is set.

@Rezwan Habib would you say your overall mastery of the content and skills has improved recently? if so, are you pleased with the pace of improvement? Are you finding that once you identify a gap you are able to comprehensively fill it or is it still a lingering issue?

Ill be honest I barely got a thing done today. US midterm results were coming in throughout the entire day and I was hooked to the tv as there were some truly unprecedented results. Anyway, that was that but will need to lock in tomorrow. Feeling in a good place overall especially that I was able to take nearly an entire day off and still be in a good place for exams. Want to continue to move through chemistry tomorrow finding knowledge gaps to prepare for finals. Experiment remains unchanged as there aren't really any major problems going on at the moment, making really strong progress. create daily plan the night before to give absolute certainty around the day, delete social media, turn on greyscale.

@Isaac T damn studying chem the day after the hsc??? you've got stockholm syndrome after all the study you've done lmao

@Aaraya S I like the pre-study idea to give a simple intro

@Rezwan Habib really good stuff rezwan.

@Rezwan Habib Consider how you can increase the likelihood of making yourself get those early wins on the board. ie if you find it inconsistent to get your morning routine done, consider adding a forfeit. you could use the community for this by adding a commitment "If i don't send a photo of the morning sky by x o clock tomorrow, i owe whoever comments first 20 dollars" or something. this will add that pressure to do the right things which will help build consistency into your routine

@Isaac T i believe you'll be half way through your final exam as i write this. best of luck and I hope your preparation is serving you well!