Managing time

How to manage yout time…:

You need to manage time effectively if you’re going to be successful. All other things being held constant, better time management skills can improve your grades, help you keep stress in check, and help you be competitive in the career you undertake following your university education. The purpose of this document is to teach you how to manage your time to improve your academic and personal performance. This text discusses time management strategies to help you adjust how you think about time, improve your awareness of how you use time, and make change for peak performance.This text is the comments of the teacher assistants.

Time management “systems” often fail because they are born of perfectionism and unrealistic expectations. For instance, some people don’t initiate a time management approach until they’re already falling behind in their work; they undertake time management as a means of catching up. Their initial plans tend to cram in everything they have to do without appropriate regard for the time required. The unrealistic plans that emerge from “catch-up time management” amount to little more than an expression of renewed motivation for change but without the structure to support it. Those trying to follow crammed schedules often fall seriously behind their intended pace and abandon the plan altogether, resulting in continued time trouble. Some conclude somehow that these strategies of planning don’t work for them. But, what is important isn’t being perfect, it is making and using a plan that helps you accomplish your goals.

What are your goals? Really, what are your goals? It might help to divide your goals into time frames (immediate goals, short-mid-term goals, long-range goals) but you don’t absolutely have to do so for the exercise to be useful. And, you don’t have to have firm answers to those gripping questions about what you want to be or do when you’re done at university to make this work; your goals are likely to shift and change over time anyway. All you need to do right now is think of a handful of goals to get started. Write down a list of goals now before reading further.

Take a look at your list of goals. How many of the tasks you intend to do today contribute to accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself? Are you actively working on these goals? Are you putting any of them off for a later time? What would you have to change in your life to make it possible to work on these goals?.

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