Plan for life goals

I have succumbed to the fact that no matter how hard I try I just cannot study using an A5 planner or notebook.  It just is not big enough for me to express all I want to get written down and turns out to be pages and pages because they are just too small.

So, I have decided to use an A4 pad - I did look at A4 planners but they are just too big and cumbersome I think to use practically and realistically - so I will be filing the papers away into a ring binder as I can't get away from the fact that I love to insert different things and I cannot cope with the whole spiral bound thing!  I guess that's the result of using a Filofax for so long, I just don't know how to deal with the fact I will want to do my own inserts and dividers and the dread of messing up a page fills me with fear so much that I never actually get started!!  So, the file idea is a good one from that perspective.

I have already designed some pages with inspirational and motivational quotes and images, whether I will make those into dividers will become apparent once the system has evolved a little.  I think they probably will although I like the idea of using some fun sparkly dividers just to jolly it up a bit - I mean the subject is Insurance Law and Liability Insurance and you can't really get any duller than that so it may need an injection of something!

As I have spent all morning designing special pages I have done no studying at all - I hope though that at the end of the study this will look like something worth looking at!  I am hoping that by making a dull thing interesting that it will keep my motivation going - or get it started - and that I will start to enjoy the whole experience rather than the feeling that it is just draining me of everything!!

I will be using my pocket Kate Spade or maybe Chameleon for flash style cards, I think they will come in very handy at holding those kind of index cards and it will give them a purpose, plus I get to use a Filofax in my study plan!

I have no photographs to share yet as I haven't printed out my special pages, my printer is low on ink and the one at work is much better quality so that's when I will print them out.  I will update on the progress of my new Study File and Flash Style Planner as soon as I have got them looking anything like interesting.

But here's a sneak preview of some of the delights that will be included:

Always work better with caffeine!

Something that relates to anything and everything

This case established the modern law of negligence and established the neighbour test!

And here's a pic of my newly set up Flash Style Planner, these index cards were really cheap (I think £1 for 50) and they are going to be great for study use on-the-go...

Let's hope this all works out otherwise I am back to square one!  I have TWO exams in October as I didn't plan my study time and as a result I failed an exam that I took in April by just 13 marks!  If I had taken the time I needed to study properly and effectively I would have easily passed but cramming it all into the three weeks before the exam was both extremely stressful and stupid.  So to keep within my 'game plan' of passing four exams by October 2015 I have to now do two in October - and pass them!  Then I will have another one in April 2015 and the last one in October 2015 - I will then be qualified!

And then I will truly and honestly be able to say...

Until next time, take care xxx