Posts filed under “Productivity”
My minimalist morning routine
Just because I’m a minimalist, doesn’t mean I’m an early riser. Are you surprised? I used to be a strong supporter of the idea of waking early (I still am) but I have discovered over the years that I have so many reasons not to (even though I very much admire people that do). For [...]
10 Ways the Minimalist Ethos Benefits Business
Welcome to the first guest post on Minimal Student! If you have any ideas for a guest post, please send me a message via minimalstudent at gmail [dot] com! I don’t really talk about business much on Minimal Student but I think that it is one of the most interesting areas one can incorporate together [...]
Minimalist surfing with chrome
A few months ago, I did a post about minimalist web surfing. Back then, my primary browser was Firefox, although I was using Chrome intermittently. Since Chrome released extension support, I’ve fully switched over and have been happy with Chrome for a few months now. Here are the extensions I use to keep surfing minimal. [...]
5 inspiring ways to feed your soul
After working on the same boring thing all day, no one can blame you for taking a well deserved break. Distractions can be valuable because they give your brain a chance to recharge and concentrate even better when you continue. With the amount of content and information now accessible to the average person, choosing what to [...]
5 minimalist principles to help you study
Right now, I’m in the midst of exams, so you could say they’re on my mind. I thought I’d share some ways minimalism helps me make studying easier. 1. Get rid of the unnecessary. Use the 80/20 rule as a guideline: probably only about 80% in the syllabus will actually come up in the exam. [...]
5 tips to create and maintain a minimalist desk
Despite many aspects of university education becoming digitalised, students are still not completely free of paper. And it will probably be a long time before we are completely done with it, if ever. Paper – worksheets, assignments, data, sources, references, extracts, forms and letters obtained from professors, coursemates, friends and our own research – can [...]
5 Ways to Reclaim Ten Minutes a Day
As a student, there is no such thing as ‘free time’. The time you think is ‘free’ – you could actually be using to do something else that is productive, such as finding a book on the course reading list, writing up notes or reviewing the last lecture. Every minute we are encouraged to cram [...]
The Recipe for Student Success – Ingredient Three : Great Health
Whenever I fill in a form that asks for my occupation, the answer I always put is ‘student’. That’s because being a student is a full time job. Unlike a ‘real job’ where you do what you’re paid for within set hours, as a student from the moment I wake up to the moment I [...]
Measuring Time
For about a year, I worked in a cinema and my pay was exactly £5 per hour. Soon, over a couple of weeks, I started to develop the habit of measuring time in hours – and then translating that into money. If I ever received money, I would rejoice at how many hours I would [...]
5 Great Habits of Successful Students
If you look at the kind of people who have achieved ‘success’ in their lives, presidents, Olympians, millionaires, great artists, world leaders, you will find that there are a few things they all have in common. Now, there probably isn’t a secret ingredient to success (if you find one, let me know) but rather ‘success’ [...]