Motivation Hi there, I'm currently writing my motivation letter in order to join University, it's a pretty high-leveled one. As I want to be an undergraduate, I need to pass an exam. 2 months remaining !!! I find it hard to focus on my revisions, and there's such a big deal. We were told that we ought to read the anglo-saxon press everyday in order to catch up phrases and economical, political vocabulary. Well, I don't reckon my method is the best one, marking each unknown word takes so much time. How can I encounter the best new words ? These I really need to be the one who'll make the difference ? Likewise, I don't know how to keep up the words stick in my head. Lists, Anki, Audio Listening + repetition, writing using them ? If anyone have the perfect technique to spend less time on searching words (occurency lists, phrases books... ?) and much efficient time on memorizing them ? I'm well-motivated, but paradoxically I'm too perfectionnist, and it appears to me that it is also a pretext not to do my job. I can find a lot of excuses, not the right way to do it, not efficient, not that... And at the end, I have never done anything. Then follows procrastination which gives me frustration. Thus I lack motivation and I don't do anything else. What a vicious state of mind, willing perfection and doing nothing. That's hard, I really need to do this, even if it's not perfect (perfection doesn't exist anyway), at least I would have done something. I also find myself planning whatever I need to do, but that's more an excuse too, because I merely spend time planning what I won't do. I think I'm there in order not to do my work, and I have lots of stuff yet. If anyone has THE tip, please give it to me. How can I switch on my momentum ? Thanks