Day 11 of 29: To Do Three Essays, Two Presentations, Technique Analysis Video, Ethics Submission

I am currently on day 11 of 29 in a critical phase of my masters course.  The sports and analysis season was officially over 12 days ago with the All Nations Volleyball Tournament.  What was left was a mountain of coursework I neglected and had to get through.  It essentially have to:

1.  Write three essays totalling 13,000 words. 2.  Prepare and present two presentations. 3.  Edit a technique analysis video. 4.  Complete and submit an ethics application.

It doesn’t sound much but the three essays are all subjects that I have very little prior learning and thus have to learn from scratch.  In the middle of all that, I have my 30th birthday to celebrate (twice too – one in London and one in Cardiff).

The workload is immense and the stress levels are high.  Thankfully, my coping strategy is to work harder to complete all tasks.  I have adopted 10 hour working days, 7 days a week.  I work hard because I want to do the best I can in everything I do (that is important to me anyway).

So why am I here writing a blog post and not working on those essays or presentations?  It’s because it’s important to step back and reflect.  Not reflective practice as I have learnt (like considering your emotions etc.) but stopping for a moment to peek my head over the parapet and seeing the bigger landscape.

What have I seen?  I am behind schedule big time!  I can feel the pressure building and it only serves to increase my motivation to mass those hours to get the job done.  I have rearranged my targets so hopefully I can stick to it.  The first target: finish my work experience essay by Saturday afternoon.  I have a tough two days ahead of me folks.  Lets get cracking!

See links at day 11, 20, 30, 33 and 36.