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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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P repare 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?
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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
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Specific
Measurable
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Identify Prime Time
Know your body clock
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Day person
Night person
Difficult tasks in your prime time
Easy tasks in you worst time
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O rganize
Organize yourself to take control of
your time
Master calendar – shows all the weeks of
the term on one page
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Mastering the Moment
(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
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Course assignments and due dates
Exam dates
Writing assignments due dates
Dates from personal life
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Weekly Timetable
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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
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
6:00 AM
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
9:00 PM
10:00 PM
11:00 PM
12:00 AM
1:00 AM
2:00 AM
3:00 AM
4:00 AM
5:00 AM
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To-Do-List
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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
Things To Do List
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My Goals for
the Week
academic goals:
personal goals:
my values:
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W ork
Do not be hard on yourself, thing
happen!
Control you time
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Controlling 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
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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
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Provide activities for children
Make spending time with children a
priority (quality time)
Enlist your children’s 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
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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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E valuate 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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R ethink
At the end of each day
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Reflecting on style of
Time Management
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?
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