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Motivation. So shoot in the comments. Shoot in the comments. What are your favorite motivation techniques? We will discuss them.

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The Philippines, my peeps. That would be really fun. So what problems? Let's start with problems. What problems do we have with motivation? Friends.

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We're talking about motivation, which is a good topic for a Monday. Everyone getting. Getting started for their week. So go ahead and shoot in the comments. Are you motivated? Have you been losing motivation? What is causing this? And what are your favorite motivation tips and tricks and techniques? We'll talk through it.

Not much motivation sometimes. Currently my last semester, so I guess the problem is burn.

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Okay. So yeah. Where are you guys at in your like, relation to your program? Are you just starting your nursing program? Are you almost done with your nursing program or where are you at also in your terms? So, you know, I was kind of thinking today. Well, okay, so January, like, I know a lot of our members, right, are kind of like middle of their term, so most people start in January, like Junior. What was it this year, like 20 wealth or something? Like the second week of January. Most of our members started nursing school that second week of January. And then, you know, depending on if you're on a quarter school or a semester school or a trimester school or however long your terms are, kind of, you know, are you in the middle of your term or did you just start? Because there's. There are also those schools that we were just talking about a couple weeks ago on a live that have like January off. So if you have January off, then you're like just starting your term. You know, you come like the first. The first week of February or something is when it starts. Ulta. Last semester.

I am in my last semester. Okay, so a couple last semesters.

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Congrats and welcome.

Currently my last semester. So yeah. Oh, wow. Several of you in your last semester. Wow. Both on YouTube and on Instagram. My.

So is that a thing? Is burnout a thing on the. During the last semester as part of the motivation drop? Or is that. Or is it the other way around? Whereas, like, it's your final semester, all pumped up and ready to take the nclex.

You're like, I am so done with this.

I am so done. Let's. Let's do it.

And like, you find the energy at that last, you know, final push.

Losing motivation. Too much research. Okay, all right. Very cool.

Losing motivation.

Yeah. Yeah.

And test.

So just, just. It's gone on so long and I just want to be over.

But just so done.

But yeah, I'm just so done.

But.

But I am not motivated.

Find that little piece of energy deep within you to keep going. So I was 120 hours away from graduating, but ended up withdrawing. Oh, was it because of lack of motivation and burnout? I'm curious now. Or was it other things? So I think. Okay, jam with me here, friends. I just want to talk through this, because my opinion. I think that there's kind of two parts to motivation. I was thinking about this.

So hold on. Before we do that, I do want to jump in and ask you your experience, since we have a lot of people in last semester. What was your experience when you were in last semester? Did you have the lack of motivation, or did you go the other way and get pulled. Pumped up?

I was pregnant.

I was like, well, that's another thing. That's another. That's a whole. Another candidate.

I think I was just tired. I was in my. Yeah, I was in the preceptorship, kind of what some schools called, like, capstone, you know, your last terms. And so that was a lot of hours. And I was like. We were due, like, right after I graduated. So that was. That was. I was, like, really pregnant. Lot of hours at clinical, you know, trying to. My. I think. I think I was just tired. But I think, like, for me, personally, I am very, very good at just finding whatever's left. Would you agree with this? Like, there's just. There's just. I just have.

That is very true.

I don't like that just doesn't. Like. I can find. Doesn't matter what's going on. I can. I can find. I can dig deep. I can dig deep and find it. And you would never know that I was super exhausted.

All right. Yeah. I was just curious because we do have a lot of people in the last semester. So wondering what your. Your personal opinion of that.

Yeah, I mean, the last semester is tough, right? So y'. All. A lot of you guys are in your last semester. So what are you doing right now in your last semester? Like, what is going on? Are you in your capstone? Are you doing a ton of clinical hours? Are you. You know what's going on? Tell us. Tell me all the. All the details. Do people say deets anymore?

Probably it's shorter. Anything that's shorter.

Tell me all the deets.

Yeah, the details. Kimila Kamala. Pumped up one day, motivated the next, tired and overloaded next. Yeah, so it kind of switches off day. Day in, day out. So. Yeah, I understand that.

Yeah, for sure. And I think it's also like, okay, if you have an exam tomorrow, you're gonna be, you know, hyped up and a little more stressed. And then the day after the exam, you're like, oh, okay, kind of settle back in. You know, it just. It does kind of ebb and flow depending on what is going on. Right. Like, you always kind of have this. I think in nursing school, we just get used to this new level of baseline stress, you know, or baseline. Maybe I don't say stress, because some people are not stressed in nursing school. Maybe I should say baseline, like, elevated. You've elevated your baseline mental activity. That is probably more accurate because there's just a lot of things to be thinking about and doing. Thanks for all the hearts on Instagram. Super appreciate that. I really love the hearts, especially if they're the ones. They go all the time.

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All right, so sorry about that, but jumping back to your discussion on.

So good to see you, Red. I missed you. You okay? Sorry, that was sidestep. Two parts of motivation. I think that I just. Like I said. Okay, talk through this with me. Okay. I think that there is one type of. I don't like to say. I don't like that word energy, but, like, a type of, like, feeling that you have where you can push through it. So like I was saying before, like, you can find it within you to stay motivated. And then there's also the time where you are motivated and almost, like, burned out, and you actually have to stop and take a break. So there's, like, those two kind of parts, right? Would you guys agree with that? That there's, like, kind of those two parts? You can. Either you're. You're either experiencing a lack of motivation because maybe you're just stressed in your mind, but you can push past it. Or is it a lack of motivation because you are physically exhausted, mentally exhausted. You have, like, been through the wringer, right? And now it's just time to step.

Back and take a break.

Break. Does that make sense? Would you guys think, like, is there any other aspect to motivation? Because I think those are kind of the two types of times where you would have to find the motivation to. To keep going or to take a break, I guess. Danny, you say consistency. Yeah, I think. Oh, that's a really. Actually, that's a really Good point, Danny. I think we can get burned out when we are on this roller coaster. And nursing school is often considered a roller coaster, right? It's a roller coaster ride. You're, like, high here, then you're low, then you know, like, you're. You're stressed for your exam, so you're, like, feeling not so good, but then you get to your exam and you do really well, so you're, you know, emotionally pumped about it. And then you, you know, something else happens at clinical, and you're like, oh, this is, you know, why am I here? Like, this stinks and I want to quit and all these. So it just keeps going on that roller coaster. So, Dani, I think that's a really good point to stay, like, motivated and have, like, be a little more resistant to burnout and preventing burnout. Maintaining kind of consistency in your emotional state can be very helpful. And consistency probably with your schedule, too, because if you're just. If everything's erratic in your life, like, nursing school is pretty erratic. I've never thought about it this way before, but let's talk through this. I think this could be a really good helpful point. Is nursing school is unpredictable. You can't, you're not in control of that. And so if you can control other aspects of your life as much as possible, that will help. So you can't control where your clinical is going to be next term or, you know, what patients you're going to have next week at clinical. You can't control. Like someone was saying earlier, nursing instructors, you know, you can't control their behavior or, you know, what assignments you get or how your, how many care plans you have due this week. You can't control that stuff. But, Danny, I think you make a really good point with consistency that you, even though nursing school is erratic, you can still control and maintain consistency in your life by keeping the other things consistent. You know, control what you can control. You can control, you know, kind of your home environment, right? You. You can, you know, get help with chores around the house or, you know, cooking meals or stuff. Like, you know, you know, things with your kids. You know, control what you can, what you have control over. So. Make sense. Danny, I don't know if that's where you were going with the consistency thing, but that's what I was thinking about. I hope that was helpful, but Danny, let me know. I'm curious what your thoughts are work consistency, because I actually really, really like that. I think that idea was really helpful.

So I've been a jam a little bit on that and really three parts that I wanted to jam on. One, what you're talking about stress. So step one, stress and how to deal with stress. Two, willpower. So willpower and motivation are very closely related. So I want to jam on willpower. And number three is as an anchor. So on Instagram, my faith in God keeps me motivated. So having that anchor that why or having that, that emotional drive that's bigger than yourself is really important. So I'll touch a bit more on that after everything, but just wanted to touch on that, that really having an anchor and really that driving force behind you and it has to be bigger than, bigger than yourself and it usually has to be very emotional. So that, that really helps a lot. So going back stress, what you were talking about, really the baseline of it is getting to know who you are and getting in touch with. Getting in touch with yourself. Maybe a little touchy feely, but really understanding how you feel in situations.

And I mean, how do you respond to situations and things?

Yeah, stress. I mean, we all say stress, right? But really there's really the two kinds of stress. There's the distress and there's the eustress. And understanding the difference between that and knowing how much stress is actually good for you, it's actually motivating you with pushing you towards something that you know is a little hard, but you can overcome it. Right? That's the eustress. Whereas the distress is that. That burnout feeling when you know that you know what, there's something more going on. There's a couple situations that were thrown out in the comments. You know that there's something more that you need to take a step back, that this isn't something that you can just grind through. And really knowing the difference between those two states is really, really key, is really just getting to know yourself and getting to know how you interact with these things. And I mean, there's a lot of people in the last semester of nursing school, so you've had all of nursing school to kind of know yourself, know thyself. But yeah, that, that's really. It is really understanding different kind of stress and understanding whether it's something to push through or whether it's something that you need help with and it's fine. If you need help, it is.

Okay, fine.

And that goes back to the third thing, the anchor, and getting, getting something above and beyond yourself to help you through things sometimes or others to help.

You through before you jam on that.

All right.

You don't know that you just opened a big can of worms right there with the whole de stress and eustress. How many of you have had nursing instructors tell you about those two types of stress? And then they're like, oh, no, nursing school. School is just all you stress. It's a positive kind of stress. I've got to tell you. It was like the first term of nursing school, and our instructors kept telling us, no, this isn't the bad kind of stress. This is a good kind of stress. And we're like, this is the bad kind of stress. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, we're like, frazzled. And nursing school is the worst. Oh, man, I gotta tell you, that was rough. So, yeah, yeah. Don't let anybody tell you if you're in eustress when you're really in de stress.

Yeah, that's true, too. A lot of it is you also. So you need to.

You as in Y O U, not eu.

Yeah, did I get that right?

You stress. Yeah, that's fun.

So, yeah, that is very true.

Riddle this.

No one can tell you where you're at. You need to tell yourself that and understand where to go from there.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah.

No one. No one can tell you. Yeah, that's true. That's a really good point. You have to know yourself and know how you respond, too, so that you can kind of preempt it. Is that a good. Is that a good way of. Of putting that? Okay, I've got to tell you, I was going to write a whole Instagram post about this. Maybe I'll do a YouTube video about it. Of things that I learned in nursing school that had nothing to do with nursing. There are a lot, and I think one of the biggest is that is how do I respond under pressure, under stress. And then what. What did I learn? Like, I am not literally. I mean, you know, the most, you know, because we were married, you know, before I went to nursing school and, you know, so you've seen kind of the whole thing. But I am. I don't think I'm the same person as I was, you know, before nursing school. Because you just. You learn how to cope better, hopefully better. I think I learned how to cope better than when. I mean, I don't really. I remember feeling stressed in fundamentals and stuff. You probably have. You have a different perspective because you were seeing it, you know, outside of me, you know, you were getting that external perspective, but you're not. Ideally, you're not the same person as going into nursing school as to when you graduate because you do do learn those things. You do learn the de. Stress. You stress, you do learn how you cope and what you know, how you respond to those certain situations. And okay, so I responded this way here. How can I respond better next time kind of thing. You're constantly learning and adapting and trying to get better. Does that make sense?

Yeah. And that's something we'll circle back on after these other topics is definitely. Once you get to that point where it is either eustress or distress, how do you cope? What, what are the ways to cope with that? To recharge your batteries? So that goes into my. My second part is willpower.

I literally have a battery, by the way, just throwing that out there. For any of you who don't know I have a pacemaker. Pacemaker jokes. Sorry.

Thank you. Willpower is a lot of times really closely related to, to this idea of motivation. And momentum actually is another term kind of all go together. But a willpower is. Is really an important topic to cover regarding this, regarding motivation. And so how I like to think about it is going back to consistency, going back to Danny's consistency, and going back to what we were talking about is controlling what you can control is really. Willpower is exactly that. It is a battery. Willpower is your tank of gas. And throughout the day, every decision that you make uses up a little bit of that battery, a little bit of your gas tank. Depending on how much energy you need to make those decisions determines how much willpower or how much of your battery you look up or you use up. Right? So if you can automate or if you can make decisions beforehand or get everything in order, keep your desk clean so you know how you study, where you study, you know your schedule, your routine, all of this, the more that you can predetermine those actions and make it a lot easier to make decisions, that means that you're going to be burning less willpower and therefore you can use more energy to motivate yourself, to push yourself forward when you need to. But if you're wasting time, wasting willpower, deciding what you want for breakfast and what you're going to wear and I don't know what Starbucks you're going to get, just all these little decisions that you make along the way, then when you need to make decision that really matters, you're not going to have that energy left to actually make those decisions. So really, it's using your. Your willpower tank correctly or efficiently so that you can save up that drive to push yourself, even if you're not motivated to push yourself forward. So you still have the energy left to do that.

That's such a great point. You need. It goes back to knowing yourself. How far are you down the empty tank, ladder road, whatever, how big, how full is your tank? And you kind of have to know, you know, you don't want to. Okay, so here's a good example. Like, you don't want to keep going and pushing through and pushing through and pushing through that you don't really realize how stressed you are or, you know, how, you know, how emotional maybe you are, that all of a sudden, you know, your spouse comes home and home and you just snap, you know, and you have like a big fight or something. Like, you don't want that. Like, you need to know yourself and to know, you know, okay, how am I handling this stress? Like, how full is my tank? You know, kind of. Kind of like those things. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Like, you don't want to. You kind of have to know your. Know, your priorities, like, guess.

Yeah, priorities. Yeah, that's another good. Good term. Or another aspect of this conversation is really prioritize what's. What's important.

Angela, you have a really good point. I looked up how to manage stress, and one word that popped up was gratefulness. So gratitude is huge. And so most of our community is Christian. So, you know, a lot of you have mentioned prayer. You know, faith, gratitude. You know, we, you know, wake up every day. You know, it's the. It's the, you know, you know, whatever you do, work it out with all your heart as working for the Lord and not men. You know, you're always working for God. And so I think that. That just in and of itself gives us. Gives us life, you know, so that can really, really help being grateful for what we've been given and. And, you know, moving forward and doing the actions.

Yeah, yeah. And then that goes towards my last point of this little journey. The anchor. What is the emotional anchor? What is your why?

Good segue.

What is your why? Why did you get into nursing school? Why do you want to become a nurse? And what is your why? And. And drive Again, Christian community has that driving force that is inherently above and beyond yourself. But if that's not the case, then, yeah, what is your anchor that's pushing you forward? What's your community? What's your emotional drive to help you get past that point where there is no motivation? I'm not saying that you have to have. Be motivated 100% of the time. It's just, just when you feel unmotiv. Unmotivated, Demotivated.

Unmotivated. No, it's unmotivated when you feel your.

Willpower tank getting low. How do you cope with that? And you go back, you go back to the basics. You go back to your starting point. You go back to, okay, why am I doing this? And that goes back to the gratefulness thing and look how far I've come. And be grateful for where you are at. And you know what? This is an off day. I'm not feeling motivated. Is this something that I can step back from for a little bit or is this something that I just need a little bit more willpower to push through it even though I am not.

Take a little nap.

Yep.

What do you call it? A napachino. Have a little nap. A chino. Yeah, Some espresso. Take a nap and then right back to it. Or you know, do you need a longer break?

Yes. Or do you need a longer break? And whatever your answer is, be okay with that answer too. Because if you, that's the other thing too. If you beat yourself up about the decision that you do make and you're like, oh, I really should be doing this, but I'm not going to be doing this. Well, if you know yourself and you've gone through all of this again, you make your decision and you move forward with it.

And that expels brain power too.

It does.

Like, you can't keep beating yourself up. Like, okay, how many of you guys have taken a nap in the past, like two weeks or well, just ever have you taken a nap? And then you're like, oh, I really shouldn't be taking a nap because I have so much to do. And then you try to take a nap and it's not a very restful nap. And then you wake up and you're still just asleep tired because it wasn't productive but you still wasted all that time. Right? Not efficient. So when we are like in that, in that kind of state, it's just not helpful. It does not help us at all. I also wanted to touch on something that you mentioned. I think a very, very common misconception is that motivation is required for action and it is not.

Yes, yes.

So you do not need to be motivated. I think this is a really big part of our like self care. Okay, you guys, if you guys have been on lives like, you know that I'm not. If you're in our membership community, like, you know that I'm not on the self Caribbean wagon, I do Not. I, I just, I think there's a lot of problems with it. So you. I think this kind of stems from that, though. Like, you know, we hear this kind of these cultural. Which is like this dialogue, this cultural dialogue telling us, well, you have to be motivated in order to do things or, like, make sure you feel good all the time.

What is your passion?

What's your passion? Do your, like, always feel good? Friends, life is not about feeling good. Like, God did not put us on this earth to feel good all of the time. Like, that is not the point. So we just try our best every single day. We want to get better every single day and take action every single day. So you don't, like, if you are in the camp of like, how you're, you know, how you're feeling. Like Matthew said, know thyself. If you can push past it, push past it. You know, just. You can find it within you. Yes, you know, you, you can. You absolutely can. Do not wait to feel motivated, because you will be waiting forever and ever and ever and ever.

And that's a funny thing, too. I don't know if there's any people that are avid exercisers out there, because I'm not.

Not us.

But then you do hear that too. That really, it's really a chicken and egg thing. What comes first, the work or the motivation? And a lot of the times it's the work that comes first.

And I, I honestly, I think that's how God designed it. Like, we need to be in action, friends. Like, we need to be in action to be doing things for. For, you know, doing what we know is right, what we should be doing. And then that is the blessing that follows that, you know, is the, Is that motivation is that, you know, connectedness with other people. Right. You know, like Matthew was saying, knowing yourself. So I don't know. Well, I'm glad this was helpful.

YouTube.

Ag on YouTube. Yeah, you guys are all saying that was helpful. Maybe it's more helpful because it's not really. Actually, this last part of the slide is not really a message that you hear all the time because. Yeah, I think that that's a really, really big lie. We should probably talk about that more. You do not need to be.

Who is doing work only when you feel like it.

Yeah, Yeah. I start with a list of things to get done and start. Then start one thing. There you go. Yes. I mean, that's.

Sometimes you just gotta push through.

Yes, you have to do it. Absolutely. You have to do it. Thanks, Africa. Yes.

And that goes on to probably the. The next part of this is. Is the momentum.

Oh, yeah.

Momentum. So we talked about motivation. We talk about how sometimes you need to push through it without motivation. And actually that. That act of pushing through it will get you motivated. You're. That. That action. What you're saying, that action leads to more action. I think that, that, that is. That. That is how it works. And that's. That is pretty much the definition of momentum is you need to. Once you get moving, it's easier to keep moving. I think that's a physics thing, right? That is definitely a physics thing.

That's what we were talking about last week is like, with New Year's resolutions, I think we were mentioning at last week, you know, like, how many of us. You start January 1st and you're like, I'm gonna, you know, do. Do this, you know, exercise. I'm gonna run every single day this year. And then you do it for like 6 days or 12 days, and then you take a day off, and then you never pick it back up again because you don't. It's the momentum.

Right?

You have to establish that momentum to keep going.

Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Africa. That is. That is a lot to go through. So, you know, we have so. So many of you guys are kind of pouring your hearts out in the comments both on YouTube and Instagram. So I want to touch on that. That, like, it's. It's exactly what Matthew was saying. Like, there are really hard things that we go through in life. Right. And so that's what Matthew is saying is like, know yourself and don't beat yourself up for whatever decision you make. Okay? So, like, Africa, what you're going through, if you need to take a step back, if that's what you want to do, don't beat yourself up. If you want to keep pushing forward and keep going, great. Don't beat yourself up. Um, who was it on Instagram, too? Who was just commenting too? I. I'm not going to scroll up because I can't scroll up too far because it. The comments get all messed up for some reason on Instagram. Sorry. But on Instagram, too, same thing. If you. Whatever difficulty we're going through, you know, just don't beat yourself up based on whatever decision you make. You know, God has blessings regardless. As long as we are doing what we think is right, what we think he would want us to do, that is all that matters for sure. Yeah.

Yeah. And getting into a little alarm clock.

Is starting to go.

Okay. Little brass tacks. Just really, really quickly is ag you were talking about. It's great that you, you find this really helpful and that this is snapping out of it and, and it really changing your perspective. But also if you do lose motivation, how do you get it back and how do you cope with that and how do you move forward? And again with momentum, the easiest thing to do is start small and then slowly build up. Right. You start off small, you take off little chunks. Someone mentioned making a list. Making a list and going down that list and then just following that list again. Trying to simplify your schedule and your life as at this point in time. So you're not wasting willpower so that you can use that willpower to push yourself when you don't have motivation, that's fine too. Yeah, so there's a lot of little things like that. So yeah, if you do feel unmotivated and you're done resting and you, you do need to get back to it, start small, take little chunks and then as you build up momentum, keep going with it. I'd say that that's probably one of the, one of the best things to do.

Yeah, absolutely. Small chunks. That's a really good one.

Yeah.

Like little goals. Right?

Little goals.

Little goals. I call them fun sized goals.

Fun size goals.

If anyone would like to go back on our blog to like the first blog post I ever wrote, it was all about motivation and I call them fun size goals.

David, the Bible is good.

Yes, the Bible is good.

That's a great recommendation. Yes. David, if you want another book about this, I'd say Take the Stairs.

Oh yeah.

By Rory Vaden. Yeah, Take a look at that. That is a, that's a really good book. Yeah.

So and the Bible.

And the Bible, obviously. Let's see, what else did I want to touch on? Oh yeah, you mentioned in Napachino.

Yeah.

And that is actually a thing.

We were listening to it on Caleb. Right. Because I, I, one of the Caleb pastors was talking about it like oh, is that a really, really thing? And you were talking.

It is really a thing. My, my friend. No, did a version of it. But basically what you do when you are ready to rest, if you need some rest, but you know that you need to get right back to work. Right. Right after you take a nap, what you do is you drink coffee, caffeinated coffee and then right after that you take a nap. Because actually it takes around 20 ish minutes for caffeine to get through your body. And so what happens is you drink that, you take a nap and all that caffeine and the rest from the nap hits you when you wake up and then you go 20 minute nap go back out.

Right? 20 minutes.

Yeah, yeah. So that is.

That could be helpful.

That is a thing.

That's what they were saying. It's like 20 minutes. Is that like the, the ideal nap time? I've heard that. So like 20 minutes is the ideal.

It's just basically one cycle is what you want to do.

Really? Because like I always forget if I take a nap. I always wake up in an hour and a half. An hour and a half is like my. I don't know. But maybe I have like, maybe there's like a 20 to 30 minute, you know, first cycle and then the rest, I don't know. But I always find that if I actually go to nap where I don't have a time limit on it, I always wake up in an hour and a half.

But that's part of know yourself. I'm sure everyone's nap cycles are different. So test it out. Figure out what your cycles are. Yeah, and definitely do that. Oh, that's, that's another tangent on, on motivation and just figuring out yourself and knowing yourself is figuring out when. When in the day you study best.

Yes, absolutely.

One hundred and lean into that for sure.

Yeah, yeah. I. Oh, here's what I would do in nursing school. Is anybody like me? Okay, tell me if you do this too. Several times. I would do this if I had a, like a big research paper. Like it literally like 15 to 20 page paper do. I would wake up at like 3, 4, 5am I would do the entire thing in a day. I mean just, just start to finish, get it done. Like, do you remember me doing this? Like I am just, I am a very much a. Like one track. If I have something to do, I am not going to be, you know, flipping back and forth between multiple different things. Actually, this goes back to someone on Instagram asked earlier and I just saw it very briefly before the comments scrolled up, but someone asked their program is going from a full. Did you see this? A full like 16 week program where you have four to five classes and then they split it in two. So you have two classes for the first half of the semester for the first eight weeks. Then you have two classes for the last eight weeks.

Interesting.

And when I saw that comment, I was like, that works for me because I am very much like, yeah, giggling girls. Okay, I have done that too. So I think it's just. That would be so helpful for me if I can Just have like, one or two classes for, like, four weeks because I'm focused on just learning that stuff. Like, you don't have to flip back and forth between multiple different topics. Does that make sense?

Yeah.

So I would just literally, like, I would rather batch things together, you know, I. I would just rather just get it all done. Yeah. Secrets to that. If you guys ever notice on our YouTube channel, like, I'm pretty much wearing the same thing for, like, stretches of videos because I batch them together. So I'll record like 4, 6, 8, 12 videos at a time for YouTube. So I'm like, weighing the same thing for weeks and weeks and weeks. But it's how. It's how my brain functions. It's how. It's how I. I work. And maybe that doesn't work for some people, but that is how I do it and it keeps me productive.

Yeah, if. If that's how that would work for you, then definitely figure out ways to do that. Batching is a really good way again, to reduce your energy.

The brain power.

Brain power. So that you can use that later on. Meal planning, meal prep. Cooking a whole bunch at once and then freezing it and then cooking or just heating things up. Things like that.

Alarm clock.

So.

Alarm clock.

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Since we're here and since the baby isn't totally crying yet, I have a really interesting question. This has nothing to do with anything, but because you guys are all here, if you don't mind just answering this question real quick for me on Instagram.

Okay.

On Instagram, I get a ton of DMs with really great questions that I would like to answer post publicly. So I know this is a really weird question, but. So I like DM people back their answer. But I was wondering if it would be weird to, like, screenshot comments. Like, I see people do this a lot on Instagram. Like, people screenshot comments in DMS and then post it to their stories and answer the question publicly. But the issue that I kind of have with that is, like, when someone DMs you, they think it's like a private thing, maybe. And I don't want to, like, I don't want to breach like, like a trust thing. Do you know what I'm saying? So, like, if someone DMs me on Instagram, like, would you guys be comfortable with that? Like, if I pull that over to a story and answer it publicly and also probably answer it in the dm, but answer it, like, publicly. Like, maybe get rid of their, like. Like, profile picture thing so it's just the comment. I don't know. Would that be weird? That's, like, weird question.

If it's questions that a lot of people have, and I'm sure it is. Yeah, that. That would be helpful. Just what would be the best way of doing it?

People say, just block out the username. Yeah, okay. That's what I was thinking. I just didn't want to, like, breach any trust or anything. I've been seeing people do it a lot, though, like, other nurses on. On Instagram, I think I've. I've been. Been seeing it quite a bit, and I think it's a cool idea if you just, like, screenshot the DM and then you can answer it publicly in a story. Just. Yeah, like you guys are saying, just. I. I was thinking just, you know, cr. Like, X out the. Like, it wouldn't. It wouldn't include the name or anything. I just didn't. And obviously I wouldn't, like, ever post anything that was, like, a personal. Like, personal anything. You know, if someone met DM'd me. Something, like, personal. Like a personal story. So, like, I wouldn't post that on, like. Because we get that a lot, too. I wouldn't post that on my stories, of course. But, like, questions, right? If someone's like, hey, how do you study pharmacology? Or, like, you know, I'm struggling with, you know, XYZ and med surge. Can you help me? Anyway, that had nothing to do with anything. I just figured that I wanted to ask, since y' all are here and I wanted your feedback.

Yeah. Block out the name, and those questions will definitely be beneficial.

That's what I was thinking because we get so many great questions on dms, and I was like, man, I really want to answer those publicly, but I don't want to, like, be weird, you know? Anyway, thank you for that. That was very helpful. Everyone said spine.

All right, sounds good.

I'll probably ask about it on my stories, too. Actually, I'm going to ask that right when we're done with here and my phone's gonna die and the baby's fussing. So bye, you guys.

Take care, everyone.

See you next time.

See you next time.

Probably tomorrow, right?

Yes, tomorrow. Tomorrow.

Stay tuned for the topic, because I don't know what it's gonna be yet.

Let us know if you have a topic.

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