12-22-2013, 09:03 AM
Great work! Lots of studies and improvement everywhere.
A word on the schedule:
It looks really good and I can't see anything to alter. However, reflect on your progress and on your well being after about a month of following the schedule. I wish someone would have told me this when I tried the whole schedule thing. Let me explain why. What I mean by this, is that everyone is psychologically different from the next person. Some people need to do lists, and even within to do lists, there are hundreds of different ways to create them (I would know, I have spent hours and hours reading about efficiency online). Some people need schedules, some people need to improvise. The underlying example here is that everyone needs to find the way that works best for them.
When I did a schedule like this (I still have it lying under a pile of art books) I failed miserably and it really got me depressed. Because I thought I was failing, and that I didn't have the control it took to follow a schedule. This wasnt to say that I wasn't working hard, I can see that looking back now, but the regimented schedule really hindered my process. With a study, I would set aside 1, or 2 or however many hours in my schedule, and I would finish it early, or go over, and even though the study was a success, I was a failure because I didn't follow the schedule.
So long story short, I experimented more and more, and the way I am most effective, is to split the day in two, AM and PM (and even this line gets blurred) and work out the night before what studies I will do in the AM and what personal work I will do in the PM. This has been working for about a month, and I am still working just as hard and feel good about myself as well.
TL;DR : Basically, don't get down if you find the schedule doesn't work for you. You know that you are working hard, it means the system is wrong, not the person using it. Just test it out for a month, if it makes it worse, get rid of it. We can all see you work hard even with out a schedule :)
A word on the schedule:
It looks really good and I can't see anything to alter. However, reflect on your progress and on your well being after about a month of following the schedule. I wish someone would have told me this when I tried the whole schedule thing. Let me explain why. What I mean by this, is that everyone is psychologically different from the next person. Some people need to do lists, and even within to do lists, there are hundreds of different ways to create them (I would know, I have spent hours and hours reading about efficiency online). Some people need schedules, some people need to improvise. The underlying example here is that everyone needs to find the way that works best for them.
When I did a schedule like this (I still have it lying under a pile of art books) I failed miserably and it really got me depressed. Because I thought I was failing, and that I didn't have the control it took to follow a schedule. This wasnt to say that I wasn't working hard, I can see that looking back now, but the regimented schedule really hindered my process. With a study, I would set aside 1, or 2 or however many hours in my schedule, and I would finish it early, or go over, and even though the study was a success, I was a failure because I didn't follow the schedule.
So long story short, I experimented more and more, and the way I am most effective, is to split the day in two, AM and PM (and even this line gets blurred) and work out the night before what studies I will do in the AM and what personal work I will do in the PM. This has been working for about a month, and I am still working just as hard and feel good about myself as well.
TL;DR : Basically, don't get down if you find the schedule doesn't work for you. You know that you are working hard, it means the system is wrong, not the person using it. Just test it out for a month, if it makes it worse, get rid of it. We can all see you work hard even with out a schedule :)