2. This is not school

Your time is precious. As adults who have decided to study at university you are likely juggling many areas in your life. Work, family, your interests and basic needs. School was directed and university, especially distance learning, is largely self directed, so it requires discipline and consistency.

To add or include tertiary study into the mix and be successful at this type of study, as adults, we need to work smarter not harder.

In saying that we also have to be very clear about our vision, goals and planning. Prioritizing your 24 hour, 7 day a week clock may be a challenge initially.

  • In each 24 hours of a day we have to sleep, recommended approximately 8 hours.
  • Eat, preferably local seasonal, home cooked and healthy, personal hygiene.  Let us call that at about 11 hours.
  • If we work that could range from 2-8 hours generally, we are at 16 hours.
  • Add in exercise, 1-2 hours, 19 hours, now we are left with 5 hours. 
  • We have not even mentioned transport, children's schedules, homework, housework or elderly parents, carers roles. 
  • As you can well imagine there is not a great deal of time in the day for adult students.

So how do we do this? Well some areas of your day should be negotiable.

  • Television, social life, social media etc, none of these are necessities.
  • These need to become your rewards once you have completed your work each day and week.
  • A Trimester is normally 11 weeks long, this is relatively short period of time to gather new knowledge, so something with that knowledge and be assessed on that outcome.

Did you know that people with university degrees earn more, have better quality work lives and their work choices are more diverse.

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Together let us look at some ways to approach this for success!