Sometimes, you just can’t make yourself start. You’ve tried looking at your vision board, you’ve tried setting self control apps on your computer and phone, you’ve tried imagining yourself as a traveling hobo if you don’t study. 

And yet here you are. Staring at your ceiling. Days before your final. The night before your quiz.  

How can you trick yourself into beginning?? Don’t worry,  my young padawan. As the laziest of them all, I can assure it is actually possible for anyone to succeed. Below is my guide for how to make yourself study. Bookmark this post and thank me later.

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Study with a luxurious home-spa session

Products: Bath bomb – Lush, Hair mask – Aussie, Nail polish – Essie, Candle – Etsy, Face mask – Victoria’s Secret Pink, Bathtub Shelf – Amazon. (Example textbook is Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s by Dale Dubin, which is an excellent resource for learning how to read EKG’s.)

Buy tea lights, a bath bomb, and a hair masque, and settle in with your study materials. Even better, use a bathtub shelf to help make sure your textbook stays out of the water. (Caution recommended with this tactic – holding a rented textbook above a bathtub is only for those who like to live on the edge).

If you have taped lectures to watch, you can set up a laptop on a chair and multitask shaving your legs and learning about the Spanish-American War. 

I like to call this tactic tricking myself into studying. I can’t be learning, I’m having fun! Setting up the spa gives you some procrastination time and when you actually get into the tub, there’s nothing more interesting to do, so you might as well look at your study stuff.  Without even noticing it, you will have started absorbing material while your hair absorbs deep conditioner.