Stop looking at how far you still have to go. Take a deep breath, and take things one step at a time.
Look at how far you've come.
Don't look at that daunting "to do" list sitting in your planner that is getting longer and longer by the minute. Think about everything you've done in the past week. Heck, look at everything you've done in the past month, semester, year.
Every time you think "I've hit my breaking point" you get up with even more determination than you started with. You keep standing even when you think you're about to crumble.
Everything has been a learning experience, even if you don't think it is.
You're lightyears away from the person you used to be, and you're becoming the person you were meant to be. Everything is going to be worth it. Every long night reading all those "useless" readings for that class you didn't really care about, every caffeine induced frenzy is going to be worth it. Right now it seems crazy but in a few years, you're going to use all of it.
You need to keep pushing. Keep pushing yourself to be a better person. To finish that last assignment. To one day reach that dream job that you've been working toward. Take a moment and think about that dream job, your ultimate life goal.
Right now you want to sleep. You want to curl up in a ball and stop studying. You're tired - emotionally, physically, and mentally. But you have to keep pushing. There's a few weeks left and you've stopped running toward that visible finish line. At this point, you're crawling. You feel like stopping, but you're so close.
If you give up now, everything is going to be for nothing. All the coffee will have been wasted (and let's get real, do you really wanna waste all that coffee?) Throw yourself a little stress pity party. Yes, you're stressed, acknowledge it. No use in denying it now, right? Don't let that pity party consume you. Stand back up.
Drink that next cup of coffee, and stand up. Stop crawling toward that finish line, and start walking toward it. That walk, will eventually turn into a slow jog. The slow jog is going to turn into a run. And by the time the finish line is here, you're going to be sprinting across it - not thinking about those days when you could barely push yourself to crawl.
