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I'll admit high school is hard. You’re not going to pass your four years of high school education by doing nothing. A couple of times here and there we get lazy and don’t do our work, but here are some tips and tricks to help you get through high school and to keep you motivated. This informative article will be broken up into groups.

Study Tips-Studying for academics can take some time, so here are some tips and tricks to manage your study time.

· Keep your shoes on when you’re at home studying or working on your schoolwork. Keeping your shoes tricks your brain that the day isn’t over and your busy. When we usually get home, we take off our shoes and kick back and relax, so our brain associates no shoes with relaxation.

· Another way to trick your brain to work more productively at home is to not work on a bed or something that is asking for sleep. This reason is that our brain associates our bed with sleep. Your bed will tempt you to stop working and sleep.

· Here is a trick to read faster. If you want to read faster, then try chewing some gum. Chewing gum occupies your vocal cords and stops you from pronouncing words. Your brain will begin to focus in on the words.

· Don’t try to study for ten hours straight. Instead, break up your study session into 25-minute increments and in between each 25-minute increment take a 5-minute break. Take these 5- minutes to grab a snack or to use your phone.

Organization-Being a high school student can be very stressful and overwhelming. Organization can help dial down these overwhelming and stressful feelings. Here is some advice to stay organize or how to be organized.

· Have a planner or agenda. Having a planner or agenda can help you manage and keep track of all your class assignments. I wouldn’t recommend using your calendar or planner app on your phone because our phone tends to distract. A planner is very useful because a planner isn’t just a calendar it has note pages, check/to-do lists, password pages, and contact pages.

· Don’t forget to organize your afterschool schedule. This will ensure that you have time for everything in your day and that you take care of your schoolwork.

Health-Your health plays a big part in school. Here are some tips to improve your health.

· Sleep is very important. If we don’t get enough sleep then, of course, we will be very tired throughout the day. If you are not sleeping, identify the reason why you’re not sleeping. If this reason were to be your phone, then maybe before bed put your phone on airplane or do not disturb mode. This will eliminate social media as a distraction.

· Try waking up early. Waking up early can benefit your health extremely because you’ll have time to eat breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; it is what gives us energy for the morning. You can even take this extra time in the morning to finish up your schoolwork. You even have time to pick out that perfect outfit for the day. Did you know waking up early can help your skin?

Motivation-How are you going to push yourself throughout the school year? Here is some guidance to help you push through the school year.

· Ask yourself from being here at school what will benefit my future? All the classes you have served a purpose. Your electives should be like your hobbies or your interests.

· If you don’t know how the school will benefit your future, then maybe think of who you are trying to make proud by giving it your all. Is it yourself, mother, father, maybe your girlfriend or boyfriend?

· If you don’t really like a class, then try interpreting all your favorite things into that class. For example, if my favorite color is purple then I will try to get some purple notebooks for that class because purple is one of my favorite things, but that class isn’t so I made it a little bit better by adding something I love.

Stress Relieving Tricks-School can be very stressful. Here are some tricks to get rid of all that stress.

· Try taking a relaxing warm bath. A warm bath will soothe you. Try adding a bath bomb for maximum relaxation mode.

· It won’t hurt to lay in bed and watch a little bit of Netflix. Just don’t get too lazy.

· Try hanging out with friends. You’ll be too busy catching up on the gossip that all that stress won’t be on your mind.

· Don’t be a drama llama. Save you the headache.

Here are some tips and tricks to improve your high school experience. I recommend that you apply at least one of these tips/tricks to better prepare yourself for high school. Thank you for reading this article, I hope these tips will help you out.