Hi, my name is Portia Gooch, and I am a Senior Coach at HSC CoWorks in Bondi Junction and Regional Ambassador for the HSC CoWorks’ Virtual Campus. However, in my time outside of the office, I am also a psychology student and a youth mental health worker with a passion...
With many students mid HSC Trials right now, we wanted to discuss a very common obstacle that students tend to face in a couple of weeks: the post-trials slump. Yes it’s a real thing! After (hopefully) working very hard in the lead-up to trials, and an intensive exam...
The key to staying gritty through the post-trials period comes back to our first and most important student key behaviour ‘Engage your vision’. No student wants to re-work an English essay or complete another Maths past paper. However everyone wants the benefits of...
Streaks (By Seth Godin) Today’s the 11th year in a row of daily posts on this blog. Nearly 5,000,000 words since my first post twenty years ago, and I haven’t missed a day (given some time-zone wiggle room) since 2008. Streaks are their own reward. Streaks create...
Before we introduce the daily rituals, let’s just do a quick recap of the number of hours a typical HSC student’s day to highlight the importance of planning out each of these precious hours. 9 hours for sleep 7 hours for school 1 hour for travel time 3...
