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Unit 2, 4th reading, practice, test, disaster, it may be over

Well, this may be the end. For the second quiz in a row, I failed and this time failed miserably. I thought I knew the material but evidently not. This is not really how my brain is wired. Too many details for me to process and at age is working against me. I lost the drive somewhere in the middle of Taxation course but was able to get out alive. No such luck here. I just can't process it. Sad, but true. I gave up 6 weeks at the beginning due to my lack of interest and now I have failed two quizzes and am 6 or 7 units behind. It does not make sense for me to continue at this time as I won't have a full amount of time to complete it. I guess I am burnt out. This sucks. I hate to be a quitter especially on the last (well, second to last nowadays) course. For now, I will withdraw, head in hands, slightly ashamed, feeling stupid. I am especially not happy with the College for Financial Planning for making this incredibly difficult course the last one. I feel like I got through the ...
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Unit 2, reading 3 even better

Not having any false confidence here. This is a foreign chapter. My first reading was abyssmal. My second reading much better. Now, my 3rd reading I actually understand all the concepts but it is pretty much a scramble of many things hitting me at once. The next reading will be when I write it out and I am not going to go as crazy as in the past as it gets me nowhere. All shall start tomorrow. Although I would like to have this unit completed by the weekend, no promises there either.
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Unit 2 a Bit Better

I am really making an effort to understand this unit. Each page I try to read with the most comprehension I could muster. As such I have been somewhat rewarded for my efforts. I understand it a lot better than the first read which is my MO anyway. As it is a 45 page unit, there is still a lot to retain but I feel like I made a lot of progress over the past few days. Moreover, just like athletes go back to the basics or the approach that got them to where they are, I started going back to reading in the dining room. Glad to see I still have some attention span left in me! Tomorrow I start the highlighting read!  
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Tortured Unit 2

I am really giving it the college try. Just finished reading #1. Awful. This unit is laughably difficult. I assumes I understand certain estate jargon (which I don't) and assumes I understand all of the writing (which I don't). It piles on gift and estate information without letting up and I am so lost. I am going to revert back to my 4 reading approach to see if I have a prayer with passing the quiz on this unit. If I don't there are serious things to consider. Shame on this company for making Estate Planning, the very last course in the sequence, so difficult. I wish I would have known this up front.  
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Zero, zip, nada motivation

Wow, after almost two full years of going through 5 courses and now my 6th, I have truly hit the wall. I am disinterested, unmotivated, and lack any power of retention. I started unit 1 mid-November and did not even look at it again until a few days ago. I find this course incredibly boring and so not interesting that I don't know if I want to move forward. The only thing that is keeping me in this course is my unwillingness to feel like a quitter, that's it.  Yesterday I took the practice quiz and even with open book, did not get a 70. Today I took the actual quiz and also with open book, got a 63. Never happened to me before in any quiz of any course. Moreover, 98% of my prior quizzes did not involve an open book which makes this even more pathetic. What I will do now is start unit 2 and see where that gets me. If I end up failing that, it may be the end for me. 
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Here!

Not that interested thus far in the course and the book was delivered. Unlike the last few courses which barely registered over 200 pages, this one is like 340. Well, I technically have 150 days to do it so here goes...
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Ordered

Yesterday I ordered what used to be the last course in the series, FP516 - Estate Planning. Of all of the courses, next to the Risk Management course, I am least interested in this, at least on the surface. I may be surprised!
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