It is worth paying less restaurants or buy clothes more cheap in exchange for someone to do the dirty work. At least during the months in which you need to concentrate on study. It is even advisable to estimate these costs and include them mentally in the cost of graduate school. Shielding your space that you do work from home or curses an online postgraduate (masters, PhD, specialization, graduates free virtual, etc) does not mean that you are accessible to anyone who wants to find you. You learn to not pick up the phone and say no I am. While you study and work, conduct yourself as if you were not, just as if you were physically at the Office or at the University.
Choose a corner of the House for work on the internet and requires that anyone bothering you during your hours of dedication, unless the House catch fire. If the computer is shared, acknowledges a schedule and asks that you respect to strictly. A time for each thing remembers the Bob Dylan song. There is a time for everything. Do not read emails or attend work calls, by urgent as they are, in the hours of study. Neither lose work time reviewing notes or by referring to the Forum’s virtual campus. The more planned and separated are your tasks, you most rendiras. Plan your leisure do not forget the advice you have given in the manual of survival: relax and have fun, even in small doses, is essential.
Not only for your health and personal well-being, but also for your performance, both professional and academic. Your family, your partner and your friends need you, and you to them. That Yes, announces of beforehand what your free hours and who are you going to spend. Same here goes the slogan a time for every thing. If you do, you will feel guilty while you are studying because you’re not with your children, and also when you’re with your children by not be studying. If you fall in that vicious circle, can not enjoy any two things.