Productivity and learning - tips?

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Okay, so. Short story time. The more important part is bolded, if you can't be bothered reading it all.

I did a course in organics which finished back in July. Next year in February I'm going to be studying Agriculture.

I have spent the past four months doing nothing "productive" (aka, I've been earning no money nor received any formal education.)

Recently (and I don't know how it happened, it just did.) I've improved my sleeping pattern and been getting enough / close to enough sleep (I have insomnia, I usually take 2-3 hours to fall asleep). I've been having a reasonably healthy breakfast and having lunch as a separate meal, and I'm drinking sort of 2-2.5 litres of water a day. (And I gotta say, what a difference this all makes to the brain, it's great!)

But it's actually kind of hard to tell how much I'm in my other world, because I don't have anything I have to focus on. I don't know if I'm daydreaming more or less than I did, and I don't know how my concentration actually is, let alone on something I'm told by someone else to learn.

Plus, because I haven't really learned (at least no formal education) anything in the past few months, that will, from what I've heard, make it harder to learn again.

So, would anyone have any tips on what I should do about this? Like, I want to do some of my own learning, but not formally, so:

-Do you know of any good websites for learning things for free (preferably things that aren't practical, as I likely won't have access to tools and equipment.)

-Any good methods of how to teach oneself, and/or test oneself on what's been learned?

-Anything you can think of that should make it easier for me for next year?

-And anything else that might be even a tiny bit relevant?

And if anyone's curious on some of the stuff I'm kind of looking at learning about (and maybe why)

-Maths: there is some stuff I should remember but don't (because I learned almost nothing in the last year I took maths, in 2011) and also because Mum asked my brother and I a reasonably simply maths problem and I went to get a pen and paper. (it was "what's 5% of 400,000. I went to the paper to divide it by twenty.)

-Genetics: I want to learn a bit more about them. I dropped out before last year finished so I didn't learn but I scanned the notes in our book so I have those yay

-Plants: I know a fair bit about plants but mostly I want to learn more of what's edible and what's high in what nutrients, and medicinal uses of herbs and things

-Web design: Okay, so my brother's doing a course in this so I can go it him with questions, but I gotta say, I was NOT good at this at school. The lack of sleep and motivation didn't help. Now I have some motivation.

-Ptolemy's 48 constellations: Because Homestuck.

-And I wanna get better at drawing but that's just practice practice practice!

You know what, I'm going to try. I'm going to try and set up a schedule to follow. Not an especially busy one, else I'll never do it, but I'll do something.

I think.

I think I will spend one hour every day learning, and I will spend one hour every day creating something. (The creating could be drawing, painting, photoshop or sewing my cosplay project.) Chances are, if I start on it, I will spend a while on it quite happily. Mostly the problem at the moment is getting off of tumblr to do things.

[Aquarius]

Look up KhanAcademy or Coursera

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Thank you! So far I've done a bunch of maths and can now  successfully simplify equations and semi-successfully solve linear equations. So I'm actually doing the maths stuff, but for some reason the creative things.... I don't know. I think they're a bit more daunting for some reason.

Yeah, the routine makes sense. At the moment, my routine is mostly just , have breakfast, shower, hop on the computer. So yeah. I just gotta try, and keep trying.

And I'm hoping to cosplay God Tiered Jade Harley (or Dog Tiered, if you wanna stick with the dog puns) from Homestuck at Armageddon in March next year.