Back to School for GrownUps

One of the tasks that pretty much every student - mature or otherwise -will need to master at some point is setting priorities.

We older folk can quite often excel in this area - comes from having more life experience than a lot of the young uns - but on the other hand, we also quite often have a whole lot more juggling to do.

Carrying a full load of coursework and perhaps a part-time job can be challenging … toss in families wanting dinner, kids wanting their mommy or daddy, bills wanting to be paid, parents in need of support, etc. etc. etc… oh - and you still wanted time for yourself too? Good luck with that - unless & until you decide that your own mental health gets a spot on the list of priorities.

For many of us, that’s the tough one.

We feel as though we have to do it all and be it all - and do well at school … and we have a tendency to think that school IS the thing we do for ourselves - and because we’re doing that, we don’t also get to take time for doing that which supports us.

We feel as though we are depriving our families of our time & attention in favour of our education - and often, we try to make it up to them by going overboard … and in the process, losing sight of not only the end goal - but also our own mental health. Bad plan.

You are not jumping through all those hoops only to fail, right?

That would be a bad plan.

I’ll be writing a lot more about setting priorities on this blog …but for starters… how about some homework? Are you in school?

Take a few minutes to jot down a list of everything you need to do over the next week. And don’t forget to include at least one thing that supports you.