Being mindful of this moment

The ethos of this book has been to encourage you to become more aware of how you can take responsibility for shaping your university experience. We’ve offered you various ways to experiment with different strategies to create the experience you want. Key to this experimenting has been to see what happens when you work from your ‘core foundations’, that is, working with a sense of vision, in alignment with your values, managing your Gremlins, recognising how you are as you set out for the day, and setting your intentions (what you are saying yes to, and what you are saying no to). Additional experiments have been offered around the themes of focus, motivation, confidence, creativity, relationships, and resilience. The word ‘experiment’ is important here: it’s an invitation to try something out and experience something afresh. Our hope is that these experiments have helped you become more aware of yourself, your choices and the possibilities that exist for you.