TIME MANAGEMENT

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TIME MANAGEMENT

• Ideas for Managing Today, Tomorrow, and your
  Future

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Why is Time Management Important?

• Time is a limited scarce resource
• You need time to get what you want out of life
• You can accomplish more with less effort
• Remember You cant control time, but you CAN
  control what you do with it!!

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What do you have on your plate?

• What roles do you play?
• What duties/obligations do you have?
• What have you committed to?
• Take a few minutes to consider whats on your
  plate
• What time constraints do you have?

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Assess Your Time-Management Skill Level

• Where Does the Time Go?
• Consider whats on your plate!

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Enhancing Academic Performance through Time
Management

• Think of school as a Full Time Job
• Schedule study time between 8a-5p
• 1.5-2 hours outside of class
• Plan study time right before or right after class
• Plan for breaks (45-15-45)

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Tools for Time-Management

• If you say you can remember it all in your head,
  then you must not have much to do
• Semester or Monthly calendar
• Day or Weekly calendar
• Planner
• To-Do List

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Self-Management Quadrants
Urgent Not Urgent
Important Quadrant 1 Important activities done under pressure Quadrant 2Important activities done without pressure
Not Important Quadrant 3Unimportant activities done w/ a sense of urgency Quadrant 4 Simply time-wasters
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Utilizing Quadrant II

• How would you categorize the things on your
  plate??

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Urgent Not Urgent
Important Quadrant 1 Important activities done under pressure Quadrant 2Important Activities done without pressure
Not Important Quadrant 3 Unimportant activities done with a sense of urgency Quadrant 4 Simply time-wasters
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Time-Savers

• What helps you save time?
• -on-line bill pay, making lunch night before
• Share ideas with each other!

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32 Day Commitment

• Some behavioral psychologists suggest that
  breaking an old habit or starting a new one
  requires about 32 days
• Think of one time-management bad habit
• I challenge you to create a good habit in 32
  days!

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Thank you!!!