Order your priorities

To engage with this discussion, we also need to be realistic about our abilities. Your life cannot be reduced to an optimisation problem and it would be disingenuous of me to tell you to focus on your holistic development while you can barely focus on anything. What I am suggesting is to list a handful of non-course related goals which you can take practical steps towards fulfilling and treat them with importance. These objectives can be anything from learning a new language to learning a new recipe. Now, I am not suggesting that you quit your job because I told you to make learning to dance your new priority. This is to guide your available free time. I believe that by having a framework to work from, you will be more likely to not just visualise but stick to commitments that can easily be disregarded.