Postgraduate?

After taking a long time to decide whether to start post graduate studies this academic year or leave it another year, I finally applied and was accepted to the MA in Contemporary Art Practice at ECA. When is the “right” time to embark on further studies? I don’t have the answer as it can depend on a number of distinct things and situations in your own life and artistic practice. It is maybe not even the “right” time for me but I am determined to make it so. I think the hesitation came as I had only graduated one year ago and sometimes feel like the developments in my practice have not perhaps been as solid as I would have liked. But in spite of this, or perhaps as a result of this, it will give me once again a full time focus on my practice and the opportunity to engage with the aspects of the course that I think I didn’t take advantage of in my undergraduate studies and the things that consequently I’ve learned about since then.
The last year has not been as unproductive as I sometimes make it out to be but it’s difficult not to be self critical when you set yourself high expectations. Being a bit self-indulgent by allowing myself the time to complete this course will have a great long lasting effect on my practice, as I feel I have the right attitude – which goes a lot further than having the right timing or any other set of circumstances.