{"id":2273,"date":"2020-05-01T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/?page_id=2273"},"modified":"2020-05-01T20:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:45:53","slug":"e-getting-started-dont-give-in-to-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/e-getting-started-dont-give-in-to-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"E.\u00a0Getting started \u2013 don\u2019t give in to procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Drawing up and\u00a0sticking to your one-week timetable does require effort. Often the greatest\u00a0difficulty is simply getting down to work \u2013 making the start. Sometimes you may\u00a0not feel like working after a long day in school. If you immediately give in to\u00a0this feeling you will not accomplish very much that evening. Instead of giving\u00a0in, try the\u00a0<b>15 minute rule<\/b> \u2013 an idea based on the six-minute rule in athletics. Go to your table and work on your favourite subject for 15 minutes. If you feel fine after this time, continue working. However, if you are still\u00a0genuinely tired take an easy night. Just complete your written homework. Ask\u00a0yourself why you are tired \u2013 too little sleep, anxiety, overworking, not eating\u00a0well, \u2013 then deal with the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Finally, remember\u00a0that if you have the personal qualities of self-motivation, commitment and\u00a0self-discipline you will make your study plans work and end up getting your\u00a0just rewards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing up and\u00a0sticking to your one-week timetable does require effort. Often the greatest\u00a0difficulty is simply getting down to work \u2013 making the start. Sometimes you may\u00a0not feel like working after a long day in school. If you immediately give in to\u00a0this feeling you will not accomplish very much that evening. Instead of giving\u00a0in, try the\u00a015<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/e-getting-started-dont-give-in-to-procrastination\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2273\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metc.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}