Was studying for 3-4 hours, now mind begins to wander and I lose the will to keep going.

I was recruited to work in a finance company as a Financial Advisor/Insurance Agent. The pay upon being hired is about $800 per week for the first 13 weeks and $400 a week for the 13 weeks after. Hopefully enough to move out and start a new life. I made some plans with my significant other on moving to an apartment and eventually getting married and living like normal adults.

I am required to pass the state insurance license exam, and complete the investment license afterwards.(Employer will not allow both courses and exams to be taken at the same time)

The Insurance course, which my mother loaned me $144 to pay for the online 40 hour course.

I want to finish this course as quickly as possible to take the exam, pass it and move on to the investment license.

My plan for this 40 hour course is to commit to 8 hours a day on this course, and to get this course done with in a week.

I found that there are 21 lessons in the online course in all, and 39 units in the book. I broke it down to 2 hours per lesson, 4 lessons per day.

Here is the situation I'm facing:

• I am on medication and cannot sustain focus for more than 2 hours.

• There are days where I am not motivated to do anything at all. That includes the course and other very important tasks.

• Forcing myself to focus on the course at hand makes it harder to stay on task, and causing my mind to constantly wander and not want to continue.

• Reading course material, especially textbooks are especially hard. The length of the chapter of the textbook determines my will to even bother. If a chapter is about 20 pages long, then it's hard for me to get started or even finish it. My mind would sometimes wander even when I'm reading, causing me to forget what I just learned.

• I cannot take good notes for the life of me, and taking notes is a huge pain in the ass even when I have to do it. Notes such as copying texts from the book or course material word for word gets boring and painful fast.

• My bedroom is the only place I can study peacefully. I can regulate external distractions easily when on medication, but it's the internal distractions, such as my own thoughts and daydreams are what's difficult.

• Pomodoro technique was attempted for 1 hour for a task, and 15 minutes for a break. Even during a pomodoro my mind wanders during a lesson.

As a result of this situation, this has caused me to take substantially longer to finish the course than initially planned. It's very frustrating and time is short.

I need some advice of how to sustain and keep working for at least 8 hours.

What am I doing wrong? And what can I do right?

TL:DR

• Have no motivation to continue course, even when I have to.
• Forcing myself to focus on a task when it's required makes my motivation to do the task worse.
• Have issues taking notes.
• Can't sustain focus for as long as desired.
• Has no idea what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it.