Really? And why not?
It's not easy to keep the books front and center because it's hard work. But your education is a gift --one that you are giving yourself. It's holiday time now. This is a better gift than any you will find wrapped and boxed. It's a gift of power and opportunity --that will be with you for a lifetime.
Why don't we want to push forward, to puzzle through understanding easements and covenants, to figure out res judicata, to get finally how to apply Van Camp and Pereira?
Why? Study is like exercise. Do you want to go to the gym? Do you want to run, lift weights, stretch, sweat? Some of us do! (Some have gotten to a point where that movement and hard physical work starts feeling good, and where our body misses it if we don't do it.) But others of us really don't want to.
I recall reading a passage by a famous bestselling author describing aching moments of procrastination when facing the screen to work on chapters in her novel. Everyone and everything was more interesting, she said! She told of times that she found herself picking lint off the carpet with her fingers rather than digging in to the next scene or dialogue. Distraction!
Why do we, especially those of us who are motivated and doers by nature, procrastinate? Why do we make it more painful than it has to be to just pick up Con Law or pick up Civ Pro?
I'm not sure I have the WHY. (Readers, your thoughts???) What I am certain of though, is the recipe for success. Break through. Do it anyway. Lose the distractions, pick up the work, and go! Just do it.
And while doing the work, remind yourself that you are giving yourself an incredible gift by being in school. You are not in elementary school being forced to sit through a teacher you find annoying, or worse. You are choosing to master skills that will allow you to obtain a professional degree that gives you credibility, a voice, a path to earn a living, and perhaps even the tools to make the world a better place.
