Many a times we as students have a great deal of things going on with our lives and time to time get distracted and loose our focus and get behind on things that are to be done by us. Module 7 talks about useful strategies that could help us to stay motivated and focused to finish tasks at hand in a timely manner. One key skill that was reinforced when going through the module to me was in order to find motivation to maintain our learning habits we could try and link the topics we are studying to their application outside of the scope of the course in say for example at a job. Learning about say the impacts of global warming in a science course can help one in the long run if for say they become an environmental engineer and have to find ways to curb the impacts of global warming. I like that idea of considering our own relevant knowledge as skills for keeping one motivated to study more, thinking about the future applications with the acquired knowledge.
The module also talks about other strategies and techniques on to how to manage interruptions and avoid distractions and one particular video that I found helpful in staying focused. https://youtu.be/AAv0ko2pelEThe video talks about apps such as calm, and other background noise cancellers and generators one could use to maintain focus. It also talks about strategies to avoid distractions by creating two accounts one for study and work and other for social media so that while studying we are not bothered by notifications. I found these strategies to be helpful and something I would like to use in future studying times and also advice my fellow peers to try them out and reap the benefits.