Dealing with school stress

I was going to say it's getting that time of year with exams where school becomes so stressful, but that's a lie because from day one school is stressful and unfortunately will be until the day you leave. I thought as I am near the end of my secondary school experience and soon to do my exams and leave I would give some helpful tips on dealing with school stress.

1) Good sleep! Have some quiet time away from your phone and everything, read a book or magazine or have a nice drink before bed. This way nothing will be on your mind when you go to sleep causing less worrying about it.

2) Motivate yourself. Okay, this one is hard but tell yourself in the morning "I'm going to have a good day" If you tell yourself you're going to have a bad day you're pretty much putting yourself down to fail and have a bad day. Even if you don't believe persuade yourself!

3) Do homework on time. Yeah this one is hard too, but honestly if you leave it till the last minuet you might not have a clue what to do and stress over it, but if you get it done the day you're given it you can get it done straight away and if you don't know what to do you can ask the next day.

4) Pace yourself with work. Teachers set a lot of work in lessons so pace yourself, even if they moan you're not doing it all or you're being slow. You're taking it in and working it out as it comes, rather than all at once and stressing and panicking and not knowing even the simplest of work.

5) It's okay to time out. If you're stressed about work or school in general, close your eyes count to 10 and start your work again. This calms you down and decreases the stress levels to a level you can cope with and still get work done. You could also ask a teacher if you can stand outside for a minuet, then close your eyes and breathe and go back into your lesson and try the work again.

6) Have breakfast. Irreverent ? No it's really not, if you don't have breakfast your brain isn't awake so when you come to your first lesson of the day *poof* you can't do anything. Having breakfast kick starts your brain so your brain will be awake and able to work, instead of you being stressed, stuck and hungry.

7) Ask for help. If you're struggling with work ask a teacher for help, they're not going to say no. Unless it's an exam and you should have revised, in that case see number 3. They can talk you through it again in a different way you can understand better.

8) It's okay to say you're stressed. It's okay to tell a teacher, friend, mom, dad, brother, sister or anyone that you're stressed. It's okay to say "look I'm getting really stressed, can I have some help". From the stage of life statistics 75.5% of teens are afraid of poor academic performance or not getting good grades. This means that 75% of your year group is probably stressing about school work so ask for help! There are teachers in school whose purpose is to help young stressed teens, they're there to help.

I hope you're not all getting too stressed about school work, I know it's hard and it sucks but there is such a good feeling at the end when you receive your good grades and go onto better things in the future because of it. Remember, stress happens to everyone at some point in their life so never be afraid to ask for help. I really hope this post is helpful to some of you, good luck in all your school work.

~ xo Gee

P.S Sorry there was no post last week and this one is late, I have so much revision I'm literally living in books!!

February Playlist

In-case you didn't know, I've decided for each month I'm going to post the top 10 songs I've been listening to that month, so maybe you lovelies can find some new songs you might enjoy.  Check out my January playlist if you missed it. I  know some of these songs are not new but I have been listening to them non stop in February so here they are;

Lights - Running with the boys

The Story So Far - Clairvoyant

PVRIS - St. Patrick 

Kodaline - Honest 

PVRIS - Mirrors

Sleeping With Sirens - Go Go Go

Issues - Never Lose Your Flames

Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

Ed Sheeran - Photograph


Brand New - Jesus Christ

P.S I will be back to my usual posts without awards next week, now they're all out of the way. But I hope you enjoyed two posts tonight!!

-xo Gee

Best Blogging Buddies Award

Hello lovelies, I know I've uploaded a lot of award posts lately so another post will follow this one today!

Recently Eve at Pen and Key nominated me for the 'best blogging buddies award' I loved reading her post so I'm very excited to do one myself. So thank you for nominating me lovely!!

The rules;

Make a post to show the award on your main blog.

Thank the person who nominated you and take the owl with you!

Nominate all your best buddies, and the people you want to be buddies with.

Ask at least 15 questions for the buddies you nominate.

Answer the questions your buddies has asked for you.

My question from Eve;

1)Favorite sweets (this includes chocolate)

I don't really eat sweet too much, or chocolate, but I do like chocolate from time to time, so anything containing chocolate would be my favorite!

2)Write a sentence describing a moment of your childhood.

A moment of my childhood I can remember so clearly goes like this.

I used to do dancing when I was younger and the younger girls and the older girls were split into different dressing rooms for shows, and my outfit was in the older girls dressing room and I had to get changed in there and I was so terrified of the older girls I ran back to the other dressing room in tears!

3)Something you learnt recently, not related to your school curriculum.

I recently taught myself how to do a winged eyeliner, I hope this counts. I've been learning how to do winged eyeliner for like 3 years now and I've only just manged it.

4)Favorite breakfast cereal.

I love the mini chocolate weetabix, but I'm also liking the new coco pops porridge, how can I choose??

5)Favorite clothing brand.

Ooo, this is difficult I hardly do any clothes shopping. I'm not even sure what would class as a clothing brand, but I do shop mostly at next and h&m.

6)Favorite make up brand.

Rimmel london, all the way. Most of my products are rimmel london, although I also love seventeen products very much.

7)If you had to live in another era, when would you live?

I think I'd like to live in the 90's, I was born in 99 so I just missed out. But it sounds so good, like I like the sound of everything about the 90's.

8)What would you want on hand in a zombie apocalypse, you have 5 items.

A "how to survive a zombie apocalypse" book, do they exist? I don't know but it would be handy! Also a generally good book because If i'm hiding I could do some light reading.

Silly string, because if a zombie came near me I could spray them and run away.

I would like a car on hand because I could keep driving away until I found some other survivors, I can't drive but I'll try.

Maybe some equipment to build a raft, zombies can't swim, right?

9)Flying or sailing?

Flying, flying, flying.

10)Early to bed and early to rise, or lie in and stay up till 3 in the morning?

Early to bed and early to rise! I used to be the opposite, but now I feel like I miss the day so I'm always early to bed and early to rise.

11)Favorite hobbies, besides internetting?

I love reading, like love love reading. 

12)Whats your superpower and would you use it for good or evil?

Well my superpower would be flying, like imagine how cool that would be. I'd use it for good to save people and capture the evil villans.

13)Biggest nightmare or fear?

The dark but also spiders, I guess they come together. I just hate the dark like, it's so scary. Yes the dark is my biggest fear, it's an all round nope.

14)If you could play god and change any aspect of humanity, what would you change?

I would make everyone be nice to each other, can you imagine walking down the street and everyone was so nice and complementing each other.

15)Do you like trying new foods? Whats the most bizarre thing you've tired? Did you like it?

I'm not really into trying new foods, expecially as I'm a person of not trying new foods at all. This might not be bizarre but on holiday last year, I had this fish which still had bones in, they said It was okay to eat, I'm not sure it was. But after I ate it I said really loud "This fish is trying to eat me because I ate it" I do regret saying that out loud, but it was the last time I touched fish with bones in!!

My questions;

1) If you were to blog about something you've never blogged about before what would it be?

2) If you could be famous for one thing, what would you be famous for?

 3) You have £100, what do you spend it on?

4) If you were given a youtube channel, what would your first video be about?

5) Radio or TV channel?

6) Facebook or twitter?

7) What is your favorite item of jewelry

8) If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be?

9) Rain or sun?

10) Stay at home and do things, or go outside and do things?

11) What shop do you most want to shop in? (it can be anywhere in the world)

12) Do you like the little things in life, the big things in life or both?

13) Do you like painting your nails bright or nude?

14) Write a sentence describing your dream future life

15) What are your top 3 websites? (not including your blog)

I nominate;

Maya at ohemgeeitsmaya

Tiffany at withhopesuphigh

Lauren at livefortodaytomorrowisnthereyet

Lucy at openletters14

- xo Gee