“I have no time to study"!”

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I have no time to study.

I’ve got to go to work.

I’ve got caring responsibilities.

There just aren’t enough hours in the day.

I’m just busy, with, you know, stuff! 

How many times have you said one or more of those things?

It is difficult to find the time to devote to your studies. Life gets in the way! Work, childcare, commitments, responsibilities, obligations.

Trouble is, the study tasks you should be doing regularly aren't often urgent, so they slip down the priority list. Then they mount up and become urgent. Then you're pulling an all-nighter to turn in a paper in or revise for an exam! Avoid this stress and anxiety by doing the following things to find time to study.

1.      Get a weekly scheduler and write in your fixed, unmovable, got to do commitments.

2.      The slots that are left are potential study time. So, note down the details of them. When are they? Where will you be?

3.      Write down a list of the tasks you need to do for university, how long they’ll take, how important they are and what do you need to be able to do them – a particular book, do you need to go print something off? 

4.      Now, go back to those study slots you identified and make a detailed plan for each of them. What things do you need to prepare, what do you need to take with you, what stuff are you going to work on? Put them in your calendar. Make an appointment with yourself to do some university work.

And there you go, you did have time to study! Sometimes, it’s just a case of sitting down and taking a few minutes to map it out.

Check out my YouTube video on this very topic below, and let me know your thoughts on finding time to study!

My “No Time To Study” Power Planning pack is available right here, to help you get started today.