The Six-Step Program for Improving Your Time Management

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The Six-Step Program for Improving Your Time
Management

• Step 1 Why am I in college?
• Step 2 What are my plans?
• Step 3 What are my actions?
• Step 4 What is my master timetable?
• Step 5 What is my weekly timetable?
• Step 6 What is on the To-Do list today?

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CONSIDE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR TIME

• Sleeping
• Showering, dressing, grooming
• Meals, family responsibilities
• Commuting, travel time, errands
• Classes and work
• Television
• Studying

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SCHEDULE STUDY SESSIONS THAT ACTUALLY WORK

• Make study times during your best time of day
• Dont schedule overly long sessions
• Allow for 5- to 10-minute study breaks
• Reward yourself when youre done studying

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FIGHT DISTRACTIONS!

• Establish a couple of places where all you do is
• Establish a good study environment
• Fight electronic distractions
• Avoid multitasking
• Fight telephone distractions

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FIGHT DISTRACTIONS!

• Fight people distractions
• Fight boring assignments with short
  concentrations of effort
• Fight long assignments by breaking them into
  smaller tasks
• Fight difficult tasks by tackling them first and
  making sure you understand them
• FIGHT PROCRASTINATION OTHER NEGATIVE REACTIONS!

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The Really Big Time Wasters

• TELEVISION WATCHING
• PARTYING
• INTERNET ADDICTION
• THE COMMUTER RAT RACE
• WORKING TOO MANY HOURS WHILE GOING TO COLLEGE.

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Giving Yourself the Extra Edge Developing
Staying Power in Your Studying

• ALWAYS CARRY SOME SCHOOLWORK USE WAITING TIME
• USE YOUR SPARE TIME FOR THINKING
• JOIN A STUDY GROUP
• MAKE TAPES OF LECTURES LISTEN TO THEM
• REVIEW NOTES ON A LAPTOP COMPUTER