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Study Helps > Time Managing Tips
Developing and perfecting Time-Management skills is critical
to your success as a college student. College students' abilities
may vary greatly, but all students want to succeed. The difference
between success and failure is often the person's ability to organize
and manage time and to set priorities. Effective Time-Management
can elevate an average student's performance significantly. Time
Management is a set of related common-sense skills that help you to use
your time in the most effective and productive way possible.
What Is Time?
- Time is unique.
- Time is an equal opportunity resource.
- Time can not be saved or stockpiled, like wood.
- Time is a non-renewable resource.
Time Evaluation Tools
Evaluate your own personal time management techniques
and see where your time goes.
Time Management Can Help
Time Management can help in some major ways. It can help you spend
your most valuable resource in the way you choose. With Time Management
you can determine which of the things you do are important, and which
can be dropped. Use your time in the most effective way possible.
Increase the time in which you can work productively. Control
the distractions that waste your time and break your flow. Increase
your effectiveness and reduce stress.
Reduce Stress With Time Management
Reduction of stress through Time Management can be easy. It involves:
Being more in control of what you do; Being productive; Enjoying
what you do; Giving yourself more quality time to relax and enjoy life
outside work.
Why don't people manage their time?
People do not manage their time for some specific reasons. They
may not know about it. They may be too lazy to plan. They
may enjoy the adrenaline buzz of meeting tight deadlines. They may
enjoy crisis management.
Time Management "How To" Areas
Time Management is often broken down into major "how to" areas. Some
of the more important "how to" areas covered here include: Evaluating
your use of time; Focusing on your priorities; Planning for effective
use of time; Using time more effectively; Creating more time; Avoiding
distractions.
LAP's 25 Ways Of Maximizing Now
Priorities
Sometimes you need to be in several places at once, but of course you
can't be. In order to make these situations less frustrating,
you must learn to set priorities. Place a 1 by those items that
absolutely must be done on this day if you are to avoid a major crisis.
Place a 2 by those items that should be done today if possible because
they are important, and further delay of these items could create a stressful
situation and become a major problem. Place a 3 by those items that
could be done today if time permits, but have no major bearing on your
overall goals and objectives.
Planning
Planning can be considered to be an investment in efficiency and success.
Planning is the process by which you work out what you want to achieve,
and think through the who, what, when, where, why and how of achieving
that goal in the most effective way possible. Concentrate on only those
tasks important to achieving your goal.
Guidelines To Effective Planning
SSS's Printable Weekly Planner
SSS's Printable Weekly "To Do"
List
Work Guidelines
Work as long as you continue to be productive and don't feel that you
are getting stale and performing inadequately. Many people
are able to concentrate on visual or auditory stimuli for only about 20
to 30 minutes before they begin to make errors. Cramming rarely
works. Some people are able to concentrate effectively for longer
periods of time, and some people for shorter periods. You will need
to determine your own ability to concentrate, and plan your study sessions
accordingly. Keeping up too strenuous a schedule for a long period
of time will lead to a burn-out from stress. You will do what you
feel like you need to do to survive.
Distractions
A lot of things can affect your concentration. We call these
things distractions. Some of the more prominent distractions
include frustration, time of day, noise, hunger, and environment. This
is in no way a complete list of distractions. They can take on any
form.
Some Useful Time Management
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