Hi guys.
I'm really struggling to find the correct amount of time and motivation to get going.
Although not the most time-challenging course, English Lit - Making Sense of the Arts has got me reading and thinking things I haven't in a long time.
How can I get started? I don't want to waste my tutor's time anymore than I do my own, but how can I get going?
HELP!!!
I hope that by now, you are well on your way to having found your motivation, just in case ......
Decide you are going to do two chunks of time each day of 1.5 hours. Give yourself two days off, do this for one week. If you work full time (as I used to do) get up at 05.00 (as I used to do). Make a pot of tea and start OU work at 05.30, pot of tea at the ready. Then at 07.00 let the day take over. Repeat at night when your family/work/life balance allows.
That way, over a five day period, you will have done 15 hours. I always follow the course study guide and work my way through week by week.
Discipline is hard, a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Motivation has to come from within. The OU requires an unimaginable amount of self discipline.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and decide that you WILL start and continue until the pattern has been set.
Don't want to sound too OTT, but the only one who can do the work is you.