Who rated this post

I had to learn the hard way how to have study-life balance 😅 During uni I always really pushed myself to do the best I possibly could, which usually meant super high expectations and ridiculous amounts of studying out of fear of failing. It completely burned me out 😭 I realised that the mental aspect of study-life balance (or even work-life balance) - being that I needed to change my attitude around study/work and the fear of failing - was the most important thing for me to change in order to not continue burning myself out. Now, whenever I am noticing that I am feeling stressed or overwhelmed, I try to check in with myself to wonder what it is that I am thinking might happen that is causing me to push myself so hard. If the thought is "I need to study non-stop until this exam or I'll fail", I try to think of less intense outcomes of not studying so hard such as "Even if I fail, I can always take this course again" or "The likelihood of me completely failing isn't actually that high, it's fairly likely that I will get a passing grade". Usually doing this helps a lot!