I feel unmotivated at university. It's my first semester and I'm failing my classes. What can I do? I study and I was a great student in high school. I just feel so useless.
A quick one.I can think of 3 big reasons:1) In the first instance, you don't have compelling, inspiring and overarching long-range goals and objectives, broken down into short-term, medium-term and long-term perspectives, and covering all major life dimensions, especially with academic pursuit as your top prority, followed by a systematic game plan.As a result, you don't have an end in mind, which you can hold in your head as an envisaged vivid image of your ultimate success achievement, thus serving as your personal driving force, keeping you inspired, motivated and focused on the most important things in your life.2) You don't understand the "WHY?" you are studying the subjects or set of subjects as laid out in your course curriculum.This can also be the fault of your teacher or lecturer or professor leading the subject matter on the onset.It's always useful to understand the significance of the subject or set of subjects you are pursuing, and the contributions they can make in your life, and to your future employability and/or career tracking.Know the WHY helps keep you inspired and motivated in the pursuit.3) You probably don't know the proven efficient and effective studying strategies available in the marketspace [as well as test/exam prep strategies] like SQ5R, Cornell Notes, Question Dissection Protocol, Index Card Strategy, etc., often used by peak performing students.As a result, you find studying/reading rather burdensome and tough-going.Now, knowing the reasons, what are you going to do about them? The ball is now in your court.I have already written extensively about goal setting and goal achieving as well as academic success strategies on Quora. You can search their archives.
Is it just me or is everyone around me super busy lately?
I grew up in a time when nieghbors go together for no reason at all and there was always plenty of coffee and cakes and Pies to go around. I remember when the nieghbors would come over at night to play cards play chess and converse for hours on end. At least once a month if not more we had BBQs and swam in the pool for hours and we ate all day long. But now I am much older and people dont seem to fellowship of get together as often, everyone seems to be super busy and many families are not together as the children had to move to other states to be able to survive the North East is very expensive to live exspecially in the tri state area. Is it just me or is everyone around me super busy? it seems like the family unit and the sense of community is fading away what can be done to make time to be with friends and family?
Border Collie barking/lunging at children....aggressive?
Desoto- Thank you. I know BCs have temperament issues in general- some more snarky than others, some more reactive. It was just very strange to see this normally calm, mellow dog go from zero to crazy in two seconds. Not what I am used to from my other BC. I will begin working with Pilot. Thank you very much =]
What should we never do to ourselves?
don’t commit suicidedon’t hurt yourselfdon’t push yourself down for the sake of other people’s happinessbe confident of who you aredon’t lie to yourselfdon’t hate yourselfbelieve in yourself“trying to do what you really want to do. where there is love and inspiration, you cannot go wrong”don’t push yourself away from people who want to help youget help when you need itdon’t bottle up your feelingslet it outspeak outlet your voice be heardyou aren’t alonenever stop dreaming and believing yourselfyou can do itnever give upnever lose hopeYOU NEVER WALK ALONEyou have to learn to love yourself before loving othersLOVE YOURSELFtrust yourself firstdon’t run from your fears, overcome ityou have to spread your wings and flyyou are the only you there isnobody can take that awaylive however you want, it's yours anyway.don't try too hard, it's okay to lose.. . . . . . . . “kill them with success and bury them with a smile” - RM