Being an adult is hard at times. This is known already. There generally aren't enough hours in the day.
I've talked a number of times about auditing your time, and really getting down into the nitty gritty of your day and see where opportunities lay.
That's something I've started to have to do on a weekly basis now. Each week, look at my shift pattern, plan for 3-6 hours in the gym, 30 hours of study, and obviously sleep. Because being an adult is hard, in fact, being anything is hard if you don't have a proper plan.
Just having the plan isn't enough though. You can have the best plan in the world, but without any action, its just words on a scrap of paper. Making yourself follow up on the plan is the hard part. Why? Because at the time 5 hours of study after a 10 hour shift sounds like a good idea, but when it actually comes to it your brains fried, your knackard because you've been working for 10 hours, and all you want is a cup of tea, a bit of chocolate, and something funny on the TV. Making yourself do more work is the last thing your body wants, and if you force it, you'll quickly become disenfranchised with the whole affair and lose the will.
See, this is where the reevaluation comes in. Where you can stop and go over the last week. Figure out what worked well and why, and then what didn't work, and why. Maybe instead of a 10 hour shift going straight into 5 hours of study, I was to cut that back to 3 hours of study, and have a couple of hours off in between, just to reset. So I didn't feel guilty about drinking pint after pint of tea while binge watching a few episodes of friends.
Because the best plans take time to come together, and need constant work.
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