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

So much to do in so little time? Manage your time wisely!

It is extremely important to know how to manage your time wisely because if you don’t, everything will get crammed together.  It isn’t easy to make time for everything in your life when you have a lot going on at once.  School, jobs, friends, family, sleep, and food are all very important priorities and you should put a  good amount of hours in for each of them. 

I have a lot of difficulty managing my time because I have so much going on.  I have two jobs, a ton of school work, a boyfriend, and family I have to worry about.  That doesn’t even include all the other things such as sleeping, eating, talking on the phone, going on AIM or facebook, or watching tv.  When I am at home I spend most of my time either texting or on the computer.  I never feel up to doing my homework or studying because I would rather talk to my friends.  I need to learn to manage my time better because I am a huge procrastinater.  I leave most of my assignments and studying until last minute and that isn’t a very good habit.  Even though I believe that I work well under pressure, I need to manage my time more wisely and spread everything out rather than leaving it for last minute.

Time management is a personal skill and only you can control your schedule.  Organization, prioritization, and scheduling are the three big steps in helping to manage time.  It is a good idea to organize your schedule for each day or for the week because that will allow you to take it one step at a time and do what is most important.  Making a list of what you need to accomplish will help quite a bit.  Once your list is created, you can organize them from the most important to the least important.  The last part is taking your list and fitting it into your schedule for the day.  It is important to make sure you are giving a good amount of hours for each priority and especially for the most important ones.

How are you spending your 168 hours a week?  There is a formula you can follow to help see how many hours you are putting in for certain priorities.  That will help you realize the priorities that need more focusing on, and the priorities with which the hours can be reduced. 

To learn more about manageing your time check out the website www.studentactivities.uconn.edu

There are also some books you can check out about time management. 

Beat Procrastination and Make the Grade: The Six Styles of Procrastination and How Students Can Overcome Them   By Linda Sapadin and Jack Maguire

Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time  By Brian Tracy

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People   By Stephen R. Covey

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