dealing with time

It is so difficult all the time to deal with the day's hours.  They just drag on and on and it's always a matter of what has to be done and what doesn't have to be done.  So long as I'm running on another's watch I always feel like it's just another thing that I'm required to do.  I stop enjoying it somewhere along the way but I'm not upset about this.  It isn't a sad thing to acknowledge how little I enjoy showing up to places when other people request it or being prompt in responding to an e-mail.  Rather it's just the way it is right now and I'm okay with that.  So how is it right now, you ask?  Right now I am trying to get myself motivated to study for a class that I'm already thinking I'm going to do poorly in.  That isn't the best way to start out studying for a quiz now is it?  The better way is to start by thinking that I can do this and this can be done.  That's the way that will get me some place.