Life, pressure, UGH!
Sooo... I'm doing Cert III in Children's Services at the moment, which is compulsory to retain registration as a family day carer (I have only been a FDC for 18 months, crossed over from Accounting, of all things!) and I'm finding motivation for study to be elusive... I mean, I want to do it, I find the information really interesting, and relevant, and I know it's important and will help me be even better at what I do, but after all day working with children, and with my husband's uni and work commitments making time with him limited and all the more precious, I just never seem to want to study find a time for study.
At the end of my workday, I want to spend time with my husband because he's always working on weekends. On the weekend, I'm tired from working all week and want to sleep in, potter around the house, and just bludge a bit. Maybe spend time with friends/family, read some fanfiction, etc. Oh yeah, and cooking and cleaning and caring for my husband (who never really gets a day off), as well as maintaining my home at a professional childcare level, have to get done too. And then there's the paperwork... UGH! I thought I'd left paperwork behind when I left accounting. Apparently not...
Yes, I know, I'm whinging badly, and there's a lot of people way more busy than me who still get it all done (my husband included, I don't know how he does it really), but the real problem is, I just never feel like studying, my brain's exhausted, and I feel a little overwhelmed at the volume of work involved. Also, it's online/distance/self-paced course, so I don't really have anybody hounding me to hand anything in, and it kind of gets pushed to the bottom of the list. And I'm a natural procrastinator.
Life was so much easier during uni... I lived at home and my mum did EVERYTHING for me (really, she's the most awesomest mum in the world, I rarely ever got asked to do chores of any kind, cos she felt my studies should come first); I worked, but they recognised I was a trainee so accommodated time for uni classes and exams etc; I was single so didn't have another person I was really accountable to time-wise, which meant I could study whenever I wanted, and spend all night at the uni computer labs if I wanted/needed to; and I had no life to speak of, so no other real demands on my time. All I had were work and uni, a few work-related social events, and some family commitments, but they weren't too frequent to really get in the way.
Now though, I run my own business, which takes more of my time than just the hours of booked care I work, and is more energy-draining than accounting, even if it is more fun; I don't live at home anymore, so I'm the major housekeeper, which means way more chores (and having been mollycoddled my whole single life, I'm not the most enthusiastic of housekeepers either, in fact I hate it); I don't go to any classes for my course, so I'm not in a constant study mindset; and I do have someone else who requires a significant portion of my time now (not to mention wanting to have a baby... Like I have time for that! Crazy, aren't I?). I still have no life to speak of though (well, does an online life count??) :P
ENOUGH WHINING!! (Sorry, just needed to vent really... My life's pretty good on the whole, so I don't know what I'm whinging about to be honest!)
Anybody got any good motivational ideas they've used to enthuse themselves about the less exciting obligations/chores of life they had to get done?? Cos I really need to get back in the swing of things, the course is really important, not just for FDC, but also for more flexibility in future employment opportunities in the childcare industry, in case I don't want to work within my own home forever (the regulations can be a bitch sometimes... And a pain in the ass for the hubby too). Plus, it really is interesting, I love doing the reading, it's just the assessment tasks that are getting me down, and I'm starting to feel a little bit overwhelmed... SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!! :D