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Time Strategies

Hi again!

Here we are. It is Sunday night and just like the professor said not to, I am sitting and doing all of the Friday Assignments in one sitting. How appropriate then that this assignment is about time management. This is irony at its finest here folks. Seriously though, who is good at time management? I would like to think no one, but I have met at least a few people that do it better than me. How they do it is a mystery to me, but that is what this post is going to be about: How to have some better time management so that this semester doesn't eat me alive.

Do I sound panicked? I hope not.

Anyway, my schedule is supposed to be

 Saturday: 2 hours. Reading A, Reading B
Tuesday: 2 hours. Story, Blog Comments
Friday: 2 hours. Project, Project Feedback

Which turned out to be a great plan, in theory. Although I do generally spend time on Saturdays doing homework, in the past it has been reserved for group meetings where I work on specific homework with my classmates. By the time that is done, it maybe a long shot to assume I will sit down and do another 2 hours of work, as my schedule would suggest. Sunday is looking like a much more likely scenario there. Tuesday seems like a pretty good option, because I have an afternoon gap, but Friday might be difficult to motivate myself into. For now I think I will move my Saturday work to Sunday and see how that goes for next week.

Really if I could just get more motivation I would do a lot better, but wouldn't everyone? For now, I guess I will just have to manage the motivation that I have a little better. Which finally brings me around to the time management tips.


After looking over the time management articles, "How to Beat Procrastination" and "The Psychology of Checklists" I realized that I already know/do some of the things that the articles talk about. I know that short term benefits are more motivating than long terms ones and I know that checking things off of a list makes me feel good. Unsurprisingly though, I am still not an expert. 

What I did learn is that breaking my large goals on my checklist into just as meaningful small goals can help me spread that bit of motivation a little further and that overcoming my procrastination can be aided just asking myself why it is I am having a hard time starting. I think if I can focus on these two things in respect to this class as well as the semester in general, I may have more success in managing my time. 

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