/improve/ - Self Improvement

>>1390
>Work usually leaves me with 10-17 hours
Not to sound like a retard but by this do you mean in a week, excluding school and work you have 10-17 hours of free time left over for the week?

>>1391
Usually throughout the day.

Do you actually like doing any of those things or do you feel obligated to do them because they are part of your identity? Can you recall the last time you were truly interested in something without worrying about productivity? I find that usually, those things that take me out of time and space, are what I actually like and want to be doing compared to things that I think I like or should be doing. Does that make sense at all?

>>1397
Don't worry. I understand you clearly.

I really do like drawing, video games, and my job. But they really take me out of time and space anymore as a kid. I just feel obligated to do schoolwork, but not for your reason I think.

Last time I never worry about productivity was some time before my sophomore year at high school. Despite having an overwhelming amount of work to do, I at least had an art class to go to during freshman year. After that year, I was constantly nagged at to make deadlines to a lot of work that my high school would put on me. By then, I lost the feeling to have fun and became obsessed with time and schoolwork. It was like using a double-edged sword and I didn't realize it until my senior year. I tried to have fun again. I tried to be creative again. But at the same time, I was failing college courses that I didn't need and was forced to take. As of now, I've graduated from high school and is currently trying to fix an already crappy GPA to go as a transfer student to a university.

I feel that my perception of time has changed drastically throughout high school that I've become scared of it. I know it sounds crazy, but it's the only explanation I can find by myself.

Sorry if this answer was way too long, I just figured that I'd explain why I'm the way I am.

>>1409
Note: I went to a college-prep school

Yep. It's the reason I'm probably going to get kicked out of uni this year.

>>1390
Okay. First of all write down from most important to least important all the tasks you need to get done in your free time. This will be the order in which you will do your tasks.

For study and art, my advice would be to split up the work into many parts to make it less overwhelming and much easier to do. Make a weekly study schedule from now till your most important exams, outlining what you will cover each week. Make it in excel. Next you should make a monday to sunday schedule, outlining what subject you will do at what day. Make it in excel as well.

Initially getting into a habit of studying will be hard so start small, for example, divide your daily study into 30 minute blocks. So in the first day of starting study, use 2 blocks, so 60 minutes a day. After a week, add in another 30 minute block, keep it for a week and then add on another 30 minute block etc. The embedded video covers this better than I can, and even though it's a tedtalk, this one is actually pretty good and the idea in it has been fundamental to my improvement.

>List most important to least important
>Make a weekly schedule outlining what you have to have covered
>Make a monday to sunday schedule
>60 minute study, 10 minute break and once you get used to this, 90 minute, 20 minute break
>Watch the video and follow the idea to know how to integrate this new study habit into your routine without dropping it