I need motivating

yully

Hi,
have you guys got any top tips on how I can motivate myself to do my uni work. I've applied for a deferral on my course work due to extenuating circumstances but really want to make a start on my work but just can't seem to gets going.
I've applied for EC's 'cos in the last 6 months i've been in hospital twice for spinal surgery, my father-in-law, my mum and younger brother have all unexpectedly died and my grandad became really ill and i've had to organise residential care for him. My kids have had to see a bereavment counseller and my hubbie is off work with depression. I've also had to deal with all the practical side of things (insurance, clearing my mums and grandads house, paperwork etc)
Uni have been great and really understanding but I've just got a constant niggle in the back of my mind that if I don't get started at the end of the year I'm going to have my work than I can handle but I just can't seem to get going, any help would be great!!XX

La-Cara

sorry to hear about all your problems yully, it's good that you've decided to carry on with uni rather than give up. I know it's obvious but I just want to say that the sooner you get started the sooner you will finish

oh and if you're writing an essay, never write the introduction first, write it once you've finished. If you try and do it first you'll just get a mental block because you've not yet written the rest of the essay which is being introduced.

rjl89

Just do a little bit, just half an hour or something. You'll feel a lot better once you've started. Then you can do a little bit more later. It'll get easier once you've started. Or just make a plan for your coursework, its a lot easier to follow a plan than have to think what to do next all the way through.

Just think that every hour you spend now is one less you'll have to do in future.

Or think about how happy you'll feel when you get your marks back and its the mark you want to get.

And think about what you want the degree for.

I find getting started the hardest thing, its when work seems most daunting, but sometimes once you get into it, it can actually be quite interesting.

That's just what helps me anyway.

bestpud

Why not take a year out, get yourself sorted and then go back?

Usually a deferral means you miss a semester, or whole year, and when you return, you start where you left off.

Or, when you talk of work piling up, do you mean you have outstanding assessments for which you have claimed EC and been given an extension?

If that is the case, why not look into retaking the bits you have yet to submit an assessment for?

But if you really want to keep going, do you have any fellow students you can call on for some support and/or motivation?

Or could you visit your personal tutor/lecturers and have a chat about the work? It may help you get back into it?

Or would it help if you went to the uni to work rather than try from home, where there is always something better to do?

Sorry to hear you have had so much going on.

Nickynoo1

Try doing just 10 minutes. Read just 1 page of chpter, then go and make a cup of tea. While your making the tea reflect on what you have read, and try to say ou loud to yourself what you think you read. Once you have done that your probably want to go back to look at the page again to see if you got it right.

I found the motivation to finish 2 essays by reading someones thread on here where they had to finish a dissitation and didn't want to do it. The positive reply's made me finish one the very night i read it.

Good luck