One of my (very few) talents in life is being a huge procrastinator, which when you get to my level of procrastination becomes a talent. Being a teenager generally involves a lot of work, you know there's that thing called schoolwork and your education to focus on.

Motivation is that terrible thing that leaves you just when you need it most, and trying to work when all you want to do is stare at a wall for hours can be really hard. Even right now I should be revising for my GCSEs but instead I'm hiding behind my phone writing this chapter while my revision notes glare at me.

I am one of those people that get sucked into the spiral of infinite random videos on the Internet and when I start watching them I can't stop. I have spent four hours straight in the past just watching movie trailers; not actual movies, just the trailers. I mean I've spent whole days binge-watching twenty two episodes of a series in one day but who hasn't? I feel like purely watching movie trailers for that long is pretty tragic.

Actually working can be hard when life has so many amazing distractions like a parrot singing Rihanna or that fly trapped inside your room that you're too lazy to let out. You have all those talks from your teachers about how to effectively work and revise, and occasionally those awkward talks from those over-excited twenty year olds telling you how 'cool' studying can be. Nothing can make compound inequalities and surds interesting to me.

The one piece of advice that I've implemented in my life from one of these lectures about studying is making to-do lists. I find this so effective because when I have stuff written down and a structure for the day I find I'm so much more efficient and work more. Learning how you work best can take time, but I think most people work best when you study for .

If you've ever tried to work for three hours straight you'll know the struggle of trying to focus your brain for that period of time; your eyes start blurring and your mind wanders to the most menial and mundane things. If you revise in something like 45 minute slots but do a few of those a day, you'll get the same amount of work done but you won't bore yourself to death.

Actually getting yourself to do work can be harder than doing the work (unless it's f*@cking physics and in that case nothing is harder for me), so get off your bed, put down your cold pizza and fries that you've had stashed in your room since last week and do your work.

JUST DO IT. (If you don't get the reference I don't get you.)

So rule four of surviving Teenagehood: yes I can tell you what new movie to watch but that is at the expense of my grades; doing your schoolwork doesn't need to be agonisingly hard- unless it's physics. (wow I have so much pent up anger against this science damn)