Make time for success!

Try not to stress about being so busy and not having enough time for everything.  If you write down a list of your priorities, arrange them from important to least important, and fit each one into your schedule you will be fine.  I need to start organizing my priorities because I am busy all of the time, and I don’t have a lot of time to get my homework or studying done.  Since I work and babysit during the week that uses up a lot of my hours.  That leaves me less time for school work, family, friends, sleep, and eating.  A good idea would be to cut down my hours at work or say no to babysitting once in a while.  I have many priorites in my life and even though they are all very important to me, I have to learn to put the most important one’s first.  I believe that family and school work should come before everything, and since that is most important to me maybe I should put more hours into those. 

Try not to procrastinate!!! It is very very bad! People procrastinate all the time, and they do it because they would rather do something more enjoyable or something they feel more comfortable with.  These people don’t really understand the difference of an urgent task and an important task.  They would rather do something that they think should be done first rather than what NEEDS to be done.  This then leaves less time for the important tasks to be done, and that is what procrastinaters do the important tasks last minute.  Three steps to stop procrastinating are, 1. realize you are procrastinating, 2. work out why you are procrastinating, 3. get over the fact that you do it

Making a list of your priorities and how many hours a day you put towards them really helps you realize how much time u put in and are suppose to put in for each.  It will help you see how you are using your hours of the day, and think about the priorities you need to put more hours or less hours into.  I took a little bit of time to make a list of how I use my hours during the week and I need to put more effort into my school work rather than socializing. 

So try not to stress to much about how you are using your hours.  Try making a list and see how that goes.  Hopefully it will make you realize what priorities are most important, and that they should have the most hours put into them.

Here are some sources you can look at or go visit about managing time

http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/studytime.shtml

www.leadership.uconn.edu

or you can visit the involvment office =)

By Rachael Hepworth