Procrastination

GRRR, I truly despise my job, but I keep putting off my certification exam reviews! whenever I am at work, CompTIA and CCENT is all I think about then I get home and i dont do jack **** lol.

I am 27 yrs old, just enrolled myself to our local community college for an AS in Computer networking (starts this coming fall). I downloaded all of prof meyer's A+ vids in my ipad and listen to em every now and then at work for the past 3-4 months. I want to get A+ in less than 2 months, should I just go ahead and schedule the exam now? u know what they say "pressure makes diamonds" got that from the A+ all in one book Lol!)

sorry, just need to vent.. cant seem to focus on my goal!

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lhobley

Im sure you will be able to handle it all. Good luck

beads

Here's a couple of quick study hints with some overlap. Start small and take studying in small bites. Yep, those 800 page tomes take a long time to get through. Here's how to do it. Set aside small blocks of time - think an hour when your least likely to be distracted. Read and study for 20 minutes of time taking brief notes at the end. Why 20 minutes? Because humans have this short term memory thing going on. After 20 minutes your not absorbing new material. Take a break and think about what you just read and THINK about it. This allows your brain to ABSORB the material at hand and work its way to long term memory where you really want it to be in the first place. Great time to take a note or two. Any where from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.

Second. When taking notes. Learn to draw things out. Nothing fancy but if you can draw it - you will remember it. A great deal of IT revolves around some complicated, nebulous knowledge that doesn't necessarily translate into words in a simple and effective manner.

Third. Learn to take these complicated, nebulous concepts and explain them on the space of a business card to ensure clarity of the message. This will force you to communicate in an efficient and brief manner. This also helps cement knowledge and will make you a much better communicator as your IT career progresses.

So why are you really procrastinating? Most likely because of the frustration with the work ecosystem. The best way to get out of that type of ecosystem? Obviously to make yourself more marketable. Take control of you own destiny and do your studies, certify, pass and move on to a better situation. Sounds like you've outgrown your current situation as it is. Time to motivate yourself to the next level.

- beads

gadav478

good one... bookmarking this...

someasiandude

Thanks for all the inputs .. esp beads

Cerebro

Try the pomodoro technique. The focus booster app is pretty good, having a ticking clock in the background is a great motivation booster.

DevilWAH

Cerebro wrote: »

Try the pomodoro technique. The focus booster app is pretty good, having a ticking clock in the background is a great motivation booster.

I not quite sure I can deal with being this strict with my time, my mind is one that takes time to get going on a project or task, but once going it can carry on for hours, breaking away means restarting the whole process.

However I think the idea of saying to your self "right I am going to read this book for at least 25min" is a great way to start of. 25 min is not to long so even if you are not that interested in the task you can push on through knowing it will end soon, while at the same time long enough for you to "get in to it" in which case you will carry one for longer.

If you set a goal of only 30min a day, then that's still 2 - 3 hours study a week, which while not loads is a lot lot better than ZERO. But don't try to cram it in between other things. Say to your self, "right I will read this for 30 min, and then see whats on TV" if after 30 you are bord, put down the book and watch some TV, buts if you are enjoying the study you have the option of carrying on and don't have to stop.