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I am a full-time university student with a demanding management job, a relationship, family commitments, and just life stuff in general. I've been trying so hard to balance everything and focus on my LSAT prep, but it is just so draining at times. No matter what I do or how many sacrifices I make, I feel like I never have enough time. And when I push through regardless of my exhaustion, I end up doing poorly on everything I'm trying to balance. Any advice to deal with this kind of lifestyle?
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In the same boat. My best advice is to have a planner and schedule your days by the hour. Review your schedule every morning. Here's an example of a typical day for me:
7am Walk & Breakfast
8am-10am LSAT & Homework
10:30-12 Class
1:00 Work
6:30 - 8:00 Extracurricular obligations
8:30 - 10:30 Friend time (dinner, dessert, wine night)
You need to make time for yourself. Take weekends off. If that is not feasible, then spend at least a couple hours in the morning/night doing things you enjoy.
My best practical advice: I live and die by block scheduling.
I'm in a similar situation and I need you to remember that there's substantial value in the consistency of the grind. If you've just begun, don't hold results too tightly yet.
A few agreements I've made with myself about LSAT prep ( in a subsequent study journal) :
Show up regularly. Have a minimum time block planned, but remember that progress is cumulative. In my view what matters is not how long I can sit, but what I can justify when I stand.
Time alone does not count. Each session should have me walking away with added experience, a corrected error, a cleaner diagram, or a better explanation than what I had before. THOSE ARE ALL WINS.
Daily return keeps the work alive, protected focus deepens it.
Good luck, friend.
You aren't alone.
The first time I took the LSAT was under similar conditions, I was working 70+ hours a week and working nights on top of my day job. I performed very poorly, even in comparison to my diagnostic test. My advice isn’t really about how to maintain studying with the lifestyle because I wasn’t able to, I had to take a step back and sacrifice some things so I could have the time I need to increase my score.