Swallow The Frog
What part of viva prep are you not looking forward to? What task do you wish you didn’t have to do?
An old piece of productivity advice centres on a sort-of analogy: “If your to-do list for a day included swallowing a live frog, wouldn’t you do that first to just get it out of the way?”
I.e., if swallowing a frog was the worst task you had in a day – and you had to do it – then doing it first would mean that everything else would seem easy by comparison.
When it’s time to prepare for your viva, what’s the frog in your situation? What do you have to do but not look forward to doing?
Do that part first. Get it out of the way or, if you really can’t, do something towards moving that task closer to completion. Don’t be simply frustrated. Don’t look away.
Get the frog task done and the rest of your viva prep is just work.