Getting a graduate degree is tough.  Between classes, work, TA duties, research, and your personal life, BURNOUT FEELS INEVITABLE.  And if you’re like most of the grad students in my community, you don’t feel like there is any room to drop one of your responsibilities to lighten your load.


And you’re thinking that if you could just get ahead by working over the weekend or during an academic break, then you could manage the next week better.  Then you could breathe again.  


But the next week is exactly the same.  More work.  More all-nighters.  And no time for YOU.


And none of this is your fault.


The truth is that the amount of work on your plate isn’t the biggest issue.


The biggest problem is the belief that everything you are doing will make the same amount of impact on your graduate experience and life.


But that’s just not the case.

If you could learn to focus on the tasks and responsibilities that align with what YOU want for yourself, then you could spend less time on the things that don’t matter as much...creating MORE TIME for you to spend with yourself and your family.

But if you continue to try to do everything perfectly, you will always be stuck in a cycle of overwhelm, procrastination, and burnout.  

And since you are here, I know that being stuck in that burnout + procrastination cycle is not what you want, is it?

 
 

“Before this program I often worked at the last minute and was extremely overwhelmed by my workload”

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Laura, Master’s Student in Sociology

Toyin has taught me so much about managing my time to become more productive. I’ve learned how to prioritize my to-do lists based on my larger goals for the semester and how to work in productivity chunks.

Before this program I often worked at the last minute and was extremely overwhelmed by my workload.

Toyin’s guidance has made things so much more manageable and I’m definitely much more consistently productive with way less stress. This has been especially helpful with all the online learning happening this year. Thanks so much Toyin!