SuperMe

Drawing porno versions of the rich and famous is not a solution that will help get your languages coursework done, but writing something, anything, will help get past that first road block.

Famous artist Gustav Klimt had a trick he used when creating his paintings. He would start out by drawing his subject, not as they were posing but in an imagined - and normally quite filthy - scenario instead.

He would then paint over these debauched sketches with the final 'respectable' version. The people the portraits were for, normally only ever saw the dignified results, until one day, one of his high society clients demanded to see his sketches of her. She got more than she bargained for.

So, how to apply this to that essay: Just begin it. Get down what you know. Make bits up in the areas where you get stuck.

Fill the page with an essay on how King Alfred famously invented ping pong, married Katy Perry and won the UEFA cup. Then overwrite it with the respectable version: King Alfred famously burned some cakes, married Ealhswith, before becoming the first King of all England.

And don't get caught, like Klimt!

Photo by Sembazuru

Speech Debelle's greatest achievement wasn't winning the Mercury Music Prize. It was finishing her first album.

Watch Speech's story, here.

Getting to the finish line is hard, and you need grit. People who are able to be gritty are more likely to be happy and successful, than those who get distracted and leave things half done.

How gritty are you? Take the test, and score some extra SuperMe points.

Is what you're doing counterproductive, needless, and delaying?

Endlessly tidying up, fiddling with your phone, making your fourth cup of tea in an hour... unless you work in a teashop, you're probably procrastinating.

Trick yourself into action

1. Organise the 'thing' into a set of smaller tasks that are easier to do.
2. Guess at how long you think it should take to do each one.
3. Make a list of the mini-missions and check them off as you complete them. Mmm, satisfying.

Writing lists will help you figure out what you need to be doing to get you started, but remember to stop writing the list. If your list has gone onto three pages of A4 on both sides - it's probably not a useful list any more.

Hey, are you doodling? We can see you... now get on with it!

What would happen if you’d said yes, no, kissed that guy, gone out that night?

If we knew all the answers would we ever take the first step?

No one knows what will happen tomorrow so get on with it, take that leap, leap into the unknown.

Written by Holly Brown and submitted on the Facebook Group

Photo by Andrew Jalali