Making the Most of Your Time

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Making the Most of Your Time

• COL 103
• Chapter 2
• Professor Jackie Kroening
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Time for Success

• You can not escape time
• If you ignore time it still moves forward
• Who is in charge of your time?
• YOU ARE

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Learning Where Time is Going
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• Time Log
• A record of how you actually have spent your time
  including interruptions (Page 32)
• Record time for everything
• Personal Care
• Food
• Classes
• Studies
• Work
• Recreation
• Other personal
• Sleep
• Others

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Black Holes

• What is eating up your time?
• Long phone conversations
• Watching that extra TV program
• Staying up to late so you get up later in the
  morning then you should
• Washing your car instead of studying

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Set Priorities

• Tasks and activities you need and want to do
  ranked in order from most important to least
  important
• Identify priorities for an entire term
• What do you need to accomplish
• Specific
• Measurable

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Identify Prime Time

• Know your body clock
• Day person
• Night person
• Difficult tasks in your prime time
• Easy tasks in you worst time

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Mastering the Moment
O
rganize

• Organize yourself to take control of your time
• Master calendar shows all the weeks of the term
  on one page
• (include every week of the term and seven days
  per week)
• Weekly timetable days of the week across the
  top, hours on the left hand side
• A daily to-do list portable calendar that
  includes every day of the week

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Master Calendar

• Course assignments and due dates
• Exam dates
• Writing assignments due dates
• Dates from personal life

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Weekly Timetable

• Transfer dates from Master Calendar
• Pre-class session study times
• Exam study times (shorter periods rather then one
  long block of time)
• Writing paper time

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Weekly 24-7 Planning Sheet
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To-Do-List

• Now complete your daily to-do-list
• Complete your daily to-do-list a day ahead of
  time
• List all the things you need to do for the next
  day
• Do not schedule every single minute of the day.
  That is counterproductive

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Things-To-Do-List
My Goals forthe Week
Things To Do List ___________ (today's date) Item
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academic goals
personal goals
my values
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Controlling Time
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• Do not be hard on yourself, thing happen!
• Control you time
• Just say no
• Get away from it all. Go to the library
• Enjoy the sounds of silence
• Take control of your communications
• Let your fingers do the walking
• Expect the unexpected.

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Procrastination

• Break large tasks into small ones
• Start with the easiest and simple part of the
  tasks, then do the harder parts
• Work with others study groups

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Balance school and family

• Provide activities for children
• Make spending time with children a priority
  (quality time)
• Enlist your childrens help
• Use television appropriately
• Find the best child care that you can
• Accept that studying will be harder with kids
  around

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Balance school and work

• Make to-do lists for work
• Study during slack time
• Ask about flextime
• Accept new responsibilities carefully
• Keep in mind why you are working

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Checking Your Time
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• Check your to-do lists to see if you are using
  your time correctly
• Check off is important provides objective
  record of what you have done and when

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Reflecting on style of Time Management
R
ethink

• At the end of each day
• How did you accomplish your to-do and why
• Why did you not accomplish your to-do and why
• Should you do less?
• Should you do more?