So the end of semester is near, assignments are piling up, and today I found myself searching the word ‘motivation’ on Google and YouTube. On Google it was mostly fitness motivation, on YouTube it was very broad, unhelpful stuff just screaming ‘BE CREATIVE’ at me.

Normally, I try not to express that i plan to do something until i am absolutely sure I will do it/ have done it, because it leads to awkward situations when I don’t follow through, and this has happened in the past*. But here is my advice for all of you who are procrastinating, pick up your phone right now, text one of your best friends, and tell them a list of the tings you are going to accomplish today. Don’t make promises, don’t tell them to force you to do something (that’s why you aren’t telling your parents or teachers this list, pressure, ew), but just share a list with them of the homework assignments that you have, that you should be able to accomplish in that day, and trust me, motivation will come. When you complete as many of those tasks as you can, text them back, tell them, they will congratulate you, and it will feel awesome.

*A few years ago, someone commissioned a painting from me, or at least, they wanted to. I said I would take it on, and they gave me a description of what they wanted, though it was pretty broad and they weren’t very descriptive, so I just ended up being scared to do it as there was a high chance its not what they would’ve had in mind. Two years later, I finally painted something for them. Its took me two days. I spent two years agonising over this task I said I would do, leaving them waiting, and I could’ve done it in two days. Needless to say, I didn’t accept payment.

This was it, recreated from a magazine picture I saw.