Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to s

pend your week more productively.

Treat your brain well. Commit to identifying and fixing at least one physical object(in the places where you spend the most time) or a feeling that makes you less productive by distracting your brain or making you uncomfortable, no matter how small. For example:

Physical object: Your trash bin is full-taking it out!

Physical feeling: Sadness-meditation for 1 minute

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“I've noticed that we link our productivity to self worth, even when we're not doing okay and it's out of our control.

That my friends, is toxic productivity.

The Instagram millionaires screaming "THE MORE YOU ARE AWAKE, THE MORE YOU MAKE"

as much as it's some sort of motivation, it does more harm than good.

And we have awakened a conversation about mental health and self care,

but this constant productivity mindset completely goes against what mental health advocates have been trying to eradicate.

I have fallen victim of this mindset.

In fact, in the beginning of the year I was addicted to energy drinks and coffee because I was depriving myself of sleep so I could do more school work.

I wish I was joking but it was a serious problem that I went through because of the hyper productivity trend.

I would get about 3 hours of sleep for an 8 hour day of school and I would find myself constantly exhausted because I felt as though i wasn't doing enough and had to work more.

In September I was writing my prelim exams or "mock exams". It was here that I only really got in the hang of allowing myself to rest.

I was getting more sleep, not 10 hours but enough to get me through the day and taking naps whenever necessary.

This was the term I did the best in academically and that's because I took care of myself and my health above all else. “

Source: https://www.voicesofyouth.org/blog/toxic-productivity

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

Can you relate to the author’s story? Why?

What can you take from the story to your own life?

Critical-thinking questions:

Is the “ THE MORE YOU ARE AWAKE, THE MORE YOU MAKE “ mindset always bad? When can it be good?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What actions do you take to make yourself healthy?