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Hey,
I'm feeling extremely stressed and overwhelmed with unending workload of ongoing tasks. Despite prioritization, time management, making a weekly planner... it seems impossible to keep up.
I need to meet deadlines and the time available, despite being on summer vacation, is never enough. Things already feel unsustainable as is, and I feel I may have to cut out the time I give my passions and free time too. I wasn't able to pursue my passions in the past, and I feel when I enter university the cycle will simply continue.
I need help getting out of this rut.
More details below.
The following are my commitments:
1) University Research
I need to look into universities, apply, study for admission tests, plan visits to the university with my parents, check all requirements and make sure I do everything before their deadlines.
If not halted by other things, I look at 1 or 2 unis daily. It takes me an hour (including checking emails and previous unis for the rest of the procedure).
2) Future Career Research
I need to look into the process of how I could practice as a psychologist in the US or Canada, as I want to settle there in the future. Currently the main thing is to look at education requirements, look into individual states and provinces, mail them about equivalency and comparability to APA accredited programs, and also to the NACES centre for equivalency. There are a lot of states/provinces. Sending out all the mails is very time consuming.
3) I'm dealing with what was once an addiction
I'm not "addicted" anymore but it still affects me and I need to spend time thinking about it / researching this as well
4) Faith Research
I think there's a good chance an afterlife exists and I need to be following a certain religion, and I'm looking into it from a theological / logical perspective. It's very cognitively intense, and requires hours of thinking. Technically one could delay this, but I'll just keep delaying it forever then, and I want to finalize this and build my life around a firm decision based on the existence or non existence of god/religion, and I also don't want to face consequences in the afterlife, which is eternal unlike this life. I'm never gonna be "more free with my time", I'm always swamped with stuff, and I believe I make the best use of my time as I humanly can.
5) Other dailies and things to think about
Passions and personal projects (exercise, language learning, etc)
I have a job offer and I may really need the money but it will deduct a further 10 hours from my day.
I'm already unable to manage everything, I don't think I'll be able to manage with this.
This also assumes I never struggle with my emotional health and never need to process or cope with shitty people that I'm stuck with for now, or other things from my past that bother me.
I also have things that keep coming up in the daily.
6) Time to just breathe and rest
(excluding the 5 min breaks I take between tasks)
.........
I have a planner which I follow about 80 percent daily. Can't seem to follow it perfectly but I do my best daily. Just don't know what to do...
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