Hi Tom,
This is Li Hua, how you doing?I really hope that everything's fine with you.Thanks for the email, I received it last week.I'm sorry to hear that you're not in a good state of learning.
Here are some tips may bring you back to a better condition.I used to take it as the self-motivated approach. You may use an appropriate way to do the following:-
1. Spend fifteen minutes to do your favourite activity, e.g. listening to music, reading story books, that will help us to release tension as studying can be very boring.
2. Carry a pen and paper with you when you're on the go.Write down at least one thing that make you feel proud of it.That's the important thing that I use to motivate myself.I'll stick those paper in front of my table, whenever I feel down, I'll take a look at those note to make myself fee better and of course to gain confidence from it, at least I know that I have something that are so much better than others.
3 Stop the negative thinking and focus on solving those learning problems.as all of us know that "A negative thinker can never be successful“,instead of being so negative towards our live, why don't we live happily and spend our time on something which is constructive.So, let's be positive and optimistic.
I hope the above-mentioned will somehow help you in your study, as I was facing the same problem like you, but eventually I've sailed through the difficulties and I really hope that you may do the same and achieve a better result in your exam.
Take good care and I am looking forward to hearing from you agian.
Warmest Regards,
Li Hua