Wednesday 24 February 2016

Overcoming issues of procrastination

One of the areas I realise I need to develop is more of a sense of urgency.  How does one push themselves through uncomfortable thoughts of - I should do this, get this done, read this, or analyse that without feeling so overwhelmed by it all.  I actually have more time than those in more full time work, I plan to study, analyse or read only to go and do something else in the middle of it and not get back to it - e.g., my office has never looked so organized!  Its the feeling in the back of my mind that I still don't really grasp what I'm looking at in my research - or is that what I should be writing about - the process of not understanding and then hopefully the light will come on at some point.

I have a goal to finish all my writing over the next four weeks having already done the research and data collecting last term; at least that's my 'plan'.  Anyone else go through this? I was working at the time the January presentations were available on skype link and would have loved to have seen that process. I feel that I am preparing for something that seems a bit of a mystery to me - will my process of research be worthy?  I think it's time to contact my tutor - hoping for more clarity as soon as possible.  I have taken distance learning courses and a degree for over 10 years and yet I at the moment need to have some structure to what I'm doing now so that it doesn't remain a dark room I keep stumbling through! I suppose I just have to get on and do this - no one else can do it for me!