Self-directed Learning Theory

I have been reading articles on self-directed learning and ran across this quote:
"In sum, SDL entails the ability to assess learning needs, effective planning, and time management, a critical evaluation of the literature resources, as well as a critical evaluation of their own SDL skills. Personal autonomy, self-management, and learner control hence clearly play a role in the PBL learning process”
It seems to me that this is what our program is based on. The expectation from the design is to provide us with a framework within which we can select our own readings and directions. The portfolio allows us to reflect on the process as well as the reading. That's what I am using this blog to accomplish. I should also be using this blog to reflect on my own skills. To that end, let me think out loud about where I am at this point in time:

* I have an overwhelming sense that I am not doing enough reading and that the month of November is going to do me in.
* I feel like my studies take time away from my family obligations and that when we are all at home, doing any studying is not what I should be doing for them...it feels like something that I am doing very selfishly. Does this mean that I am being a bad person, wife, mother?
* I feel like I need to spend time reorganizing and reprioritizing and not making headway. But, when I look back on the list of tasks for the semester, I have made some strides...I wonder what it will feel like when I look back on the semester?
* I want to make sure that I take the small steps now that will set me up to accomplish the big goals at the end of the semester and not be left freaking out...to whit keeping up this blog and doing the annotations along the way.
* There is just too much to do and not enough time in which to do it!