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Time Management
Time management is paying attention to how you are spending your most
valuable resource (time) and devising a plan to use it more effectively.


Goals for Today’s
Lesson:
• Assess/examine how you are
currently allocating your time
• Understand the importance of
managing your time
• Understand different strategies on
how to use your time efficiently


Goal Setting
• In order to know what you should be doing with your
time, it is important to know what you are working
towards
• Long term goals = Life-long goals (usually take a year or
more to accomplish)
• Short-term goals = Stepping stones (less than a year to
accomplish)


Goal Setting,
Give it a shot!
• Write a short-term and long-term goal
• Your short-term goal should be a ‘stepping stone’
on the path to achieving your long-term goal
• Make sure both goals are:

– Specific
– Measurable

• Volunteers?


Where does the time go???
• Make a list of 10-15 observable activities
you have participated in during the past
24 hours.
• Estimate how much time you spent on
each activity.


It is all connected- Goal
Setting & Time Management
• If your goal is to increase your GPA you will need to
be well organized to allocate sufficient time for
study or visit your professors office hours
• Knowing ahead of time what your main priorities are
can help you attend to those tasks first
• Are you allocating the necessary time in achieving
the short-term and long-term goals you set earlier?


Why is Time Management
Important?
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Prioritize your tasks
Accomplish short-term and long-term goals
Increases productivity
Experience the success of accomplishment (fulfillment)
Feeling of self-control
Balance
Aids in money management
Reduces stress
Prepares you for the “real world”


Consider your Values
• You will put more time and energy towards what
you value, enjoy and love.
• How much do you value your education?
• How important is it that you succeed in college
and get your degree?
• If success in college is a high value for your life,
you will make more time for your studies, your
classes and projects.
• We all spend time on what we value!

What is Time Management?
• Not just about managing your time,
it’s about managing your attention
• Attention Management = ability to
focus on a designated activity
• Without attention management,
time management is pointless
“To manage your time you must manage
yourself: your energy, your behavior, your
attitudes, you”--- Constance Staley


Get Your Priorities Straight!

Covey, Stephen R. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.


Which Quadrant Are You In?
• Go back to your list of Observable
Activities:
– Write each activity into the appropriate
Quadrant on your graph.
– Using the time estimates you wrote for each
activity, circle the Quadrant in which you spent
the most time (you may have a tie!).


Priorities Are Personal
• Sleep may be Quadrant IV for one person and

Quadrant I for another.
• In which Quadrant did you spend the majority of
your time?
• Which quadrant is the best? (for studying?)
• What happens if you spend the majority of your time
in Quadrant I activities?


Performance, health & happiness are grounded in
the skillful management of energy” Jim Loehr and Tony
Schwartz, from the Power of Full Engagement


How to use time wisely
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Electronic or hard copy day planner or calendar
Schedule Fixed Blocks of Time First
– Start with class time, work schedule, child
care
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Schedule DO & DUE dates
Work Backwards
Use syllabus!

Schedule study time every day--- at least 2
hours (if you have breaks between your
classes, use it!)
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Some classes require more study time than others

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10 minute study breaks after studying for 1 hour


How to use time wisely
Hours you should be spending studying:
Units for less demanding classes:____ x 2 hours=___ hours
Units for typical/average classes:__ X 3 hours = ___ hours
Units for typical/average classes:__ X 4 hours = ___ hours

Expected total study time per week: ____ hours


How to use time wisely
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Set aside time for the day to day tasks that
will bring you a step closer to reaching your
goals

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Update your schedule everyday

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Break larger assignments into smaller tasks
(exp: final term papers)

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Avoid scheduling marathon study sessions
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Three 3-hour sessions are more productive than 910 hour sessions


How to use time wisely
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Schedule time to study for tests and to review
notes (set a regular place to study & a
specific subject)

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Schedule time for errands

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Plan for the unplanned

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Double your time estimates (tasks can take
longer than expected)

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Take time for you! Don’t forget yourself and
your needs (sleeping, nutrition, exercise)


How to use time wisely
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Set priorities

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Be realistic

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Allow for flexibility in your schedule

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Schedule time for fun!

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The final step is to act on the schedule you
wrote down


• When you say “I don’t have time, what
you are really saying is “I have other
priorities.”