Time Strategies

Time management is very important to succeed!

Time management is kind of an interesting thing for me. I get distracted easily. Sometimes I can be super focused and on a roll for hours at a time, but sometimes I can't get two minutes of work in without looking at my phone. Another hard thing for me is scheduling specific times for specific work I need to get done. My work load changes on a daily basis, and none of my classes besides this one have a "this is what you need to get done and when" feature. my professors assign things irregularly and as they go, so sometimes my daily workload is next to nothing and sometimes its 50 things at once. 

I am a master to do list-er, but I am kind of terrible at properly planning my time so I am most efficient. Usually it is just "Well I don't have class for another hour, I might as well get this assignment done." It usually works out well for me though, I never turn in assignments late and I rarely wait until the last minute either. I like to work ahead as much as I can to get my work out of the way, but I feel like I have a never ending list of things I could be doing, so it is hard for me to find time to properly relax, because there is always something else I can do to get ahead. 

One good time management tool I have found though is to do no work on Sundays. I know this is a religious thing for some people but it isn't for me. It's just the best day for me to relax. Saturdays are for my friends and every other day is for school. Sundays are for laying around watching Netflix and doing a ton of laundry. I also like to attempt to plan out my week and also grocery shop. 

The two articles I read were: 

Both of these articles were very informative, and I already use a lot of the suggestions they list. Like I said, I use to do lists constantly. However I could be better about implementing some of the strategies listed in the second article. 

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