Your brain—have I mentioned this already?—is part of your body.
You can’t expect your brain to do its best unless you take care of it. Junk food, irregular meals, inadequate sleep, cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, “recreational†drugs—all of these diminish your brain’s ability to work. All of them, too, are entirely avoidable—bad habits people slip into because they take the easy way, the lazy way. Be smarter than that.
And if you’ve already developed, or begun to develop, a bad habit in this area, break it now!
Skipping breakfast is a common error in today’s society. I’ve made this the topic of my sample goal. If you aren’t sure what a “proper breakfast†is, now is a great time to learn a bit about nutrition. Your parents and teachers may be able to help you with this (see Chapter 4: Getting Help from Parents and Teachers).
This article from The Guardian (April 2006) describes new scientific evidence linking adequate sleep with the ability to store new learning in our long-term memory. Bottom line: if you are sleep-deprived, you cannot learn properly.