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Why does exercise feel like a chore? – Ensuring you have the right motivation to conquer the everyday!
Hi, you lovely people! This week I am giving you my 5 top tips for focusing on motivation – how to get it and more importantly, how to keep it! Personally, my motivation came when I realised how poor my health (both physical and mental) had become during lockdown. It took a long look in the mirror to decide that I needed to make myself the priority in my life, which included treating my mind and body with the respect it deserves – something which I had never done before. Good news though! You don’t need to be in the position I was in before change can occur. All you…
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My First Steps in HE – Kieran’s Story
Now that I’d completed phase one, it was time for phase two. My first couple of weeks at University. On the first day of Uni, I was really nervous for a multitude of reasons. Not only was I going there as the first in my family, but I was also going there as someone who’d never really been to Worcester before. I’d also never travelled on the train by myself before. Don’t be afraid if you feel the same when you start University. It’s natural. For me, I was only going to a city that’s 45 minutes away from where I live, but for others, it could be that you…
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Hi, I’m Charlie
Hi, my name’s Charlie (if you hadn’t have guessed from the title!) I now work on behalf of a project, Aimhigher Plus, that talks about different education routes and next steps. I’ve created this blog, alongside some of my friends and work colleagues, to share their stories about the realities of education and to show the stories of how we got where we are. But you want to know more about me, because this is probably why you’re here, reading this… I’m an only child which means my parents were particularly protective over me and lived a pretty sheltered life. I admit I’m particularly fortunate that that side of things…
