The Past 6 Weeks

The main thing that has been troubling me over the last 6 weeks is staying motivated about school.  It has really been hard for me to stay focused because so much of my free time has been consumed by school.  I have no free time anymore, whenever I think about doing something different (other than school), there is this little guy tapping me on my shoulder saying, "Tuesday night is the deadline, and you need to get your work done, or you know what will happen, you will be a failure".  Fatigue is starting to set in and it is starting to worry me a little.  The classes are not getting any easier, and mentally, I am really starting to get tired and frustrated, with struggling to get my work in on time, without compromising the quality of it.  I keep reminding myself as to the reason I embarked on this journey in the first place, even that tactic is starting to get old.  But it is keeping me going, along with my determination to see this to the end.  Besides that, I don't see my life getting any better without a good education.  I don't have any quality free time anyway, so what the heck.  I will make this happen.

How is school influencing my life.

I think that school is influencing my life in a positive way.  Before I started going back to school, everyday of my adult life seemed to be wasted, because it always consisted of going to work just to pay bills and nothing else.  It felt as if I was just lost in the shuffle, with no sense of direction or purpose in my life.  But now that I am in school, with a goal of making a better, more productive life for myself, I can now say that I have a sense of purpose and direction in my life.  I no longer wake up everyday and ask myself, "Why don't you do something better with your life", because I am doing just that, and I feel great about taking charge of my life and moving in a positive direction.  Of all the things that can go wrong in this world, you can never go wrong by furthering your education.