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9 ways to focus a wandering mind

The time you have (in jellybeans)

Managing my time

Presentation created by Mark Kaderle and Ken Ong at Melbourne High School

Time Management app

Flora - Stay Focused Together - Flora is a gamified pomodoro timer, habit tracker, and to-do-list app that encourages you and your friends to put down the phones and be productive via tree planting.

RescueTime app - "helps you increase your productivity by monitoring your computer use and informing you when and how you're both productive and distracted".

GTasks : a simple and efficient to-do app with Google synchronisation 

 myHomework app

The Pomodoro Technique

 

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method invented by an Italian in the 1980s. Read and watch about how it works. 

Don't procrastinate - take control

Need to finish an assignment that will take you an hour? Study for an exam? That's if you don't get distracted by social media. Why not lock yourself out of your devices for a time you've decided on?

Download the Self Control app (for MAC)  or as a Chrome extension to make sure you don't get tempted!

Make sure you lock yourself out of ALL YOUR DEVICES.

How to overcome procrastination

Stages of Procrastination

Put Off Procrastinating!!

Wanting to stop procrastinating and build your willpower? Try 'Temptation Bundling'.

Overcoming Procrastination

These modules include information about procrastination and suggested strategies and worksheets for stopping procrastination.

Eight Tiny Steps to End Procrastination

5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Six Scientifically Supported Ways To Crush Procrastination

15 efficient techniques to get rid of procrastination and be more productive

Avoiding procrastination

Tim Urban : Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

Perfectionism in Perspective

Overcoming Perfectionism

These modules will help you understand what is helpful and unhelpful about being a perfectionist. They include information, worksheets and suggested exercises.

 

The Prison of Perfection