This month’s newsletter is all about action. It’s all about things you can do to ward off anxiety as you get closer to exam day. This material works before any exam and will work best if you practice on the small fish before you get to the White Whale.
Practice and work will go a long way with what I teach in these pages, but don’t despair. By page 5, you’ll already have plenty to work with and plenty to think about. I’ve got you covered.
Here’s just a small taste of what you’re going to learn when this issue arrives in your mailbox:
– Six simple techniques for annihilating test anxiety (Pages 6 – 15)
– How Francis the Monkey proved one of my favorite theories on test-taking (Page 7)
– A strategy I learned from the most decorated Olympian of all time for controlling your mind before a HUGE event. I mean, the guy’s got 23 gold medals hanging around his neck. It probably makes sense to take a look at what he’s doing.(Page 15)
– The exact script to use when your brain just won’t let you sleep. These twenty-one words will take you from tossing and turning to snoring and snoozing.(Page 12)
– Ten things (you don’t have to use all of them) you can do to improve your odds of getting a good night’s sleep the night before a big exam (including my absolute favorite on) that helps you prove to your doubting brain that you’ve done enough work and now it’s time for sleepy time.(Pages 13 – 14)
– My very not-secret-or-sexy four step bedtime routine that helps me get to sleep fast.(Page 15)
-A four-step process for calming the mind, taught by world renowned Buddhist monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hahn.(Page 8)
– One way, that takes no time at all, to trick your brain into thinking that you are ready for any test. As that feeling washes over you, it becomes much easier to sit in that chair and focus. (Page 6)
– How a dead smelly foot and a truck load of garbage bags helped me build my surgical skills up to a point that surgeons actually wanted me in the room.(Page 1)
Along with many ways to out-perform your cohort on exams, rotations, job interviews, presentations, your first day of work, and even meeting your in-laws for the first time, one of my favorite things about this issue is that the techniques and methods we discuss inside have so many applications. Yes, they will help with your exams for sure, but they will help with any situation where you need a little EXTRA.
The deadline on this one is nightfall tonight. Click the link below. You know what to do.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace