Time Strategies: My Thoughts
Through both my successes and failures, college has naturally taught me through life lessons on the importance of time management.
I loved reading Tim Grahl's article, "The Myth of Too Busy" about the importance of prioritizing one's time (click!). Oftentimes, I find myself wasting more of my time stressing out about how much time I don't have, rather than using the time I do have to get stuff done.
My eyes were opened to an unique technique of choosing what to prioritize in the article, "Eat the Frog First Thing in the Morning," by Thomas Oppong (click!). This method includes completing your most daunting task of the day first. By maximizing our working capacity at the beginning of the day, it will motivate us to finish the easier, yet other necessary, tasks that follow during the day. Afterall, if you can finish that massive paper at 10:00 AM, then your laundry seems like a break from all the hard work you've accomplished previously in the day. I am definitely going to start incorporating this into my schedule. However, the biggest challenge for me in this is my sleeping schedule. In fact, I find it so ironic that as I am typing a Time Management post, it is already midnight.
Something I have found to work for me is to have achievable goals for each day. Although it seems that you can miraculously accomplish 30 things on the next day, the reality is that life gets in the way. While creating eager challenges for yourself can push you to attack new goals, it is also important to be reasonable in what you can accomplish so that you will not inevitably get disappointed when you only get halfway through the long list at the end of the day.
I loved reading Tim Grahl's article, "The Myth of Too Busy" about the importance of prioritizing one's time (click!). Oftentimes, I find myself wasting more of my time stressing out about how much time I don't have, rather than using the time I do have to get stuff done.
My eyes were opened to an unique technique of choosing what to prioritize in the article, "Eat the Frog First Thing in the Morning," by Thomas Oppong (click!). This method includes completing your most daunting task of the day first. By maximizing our working capacity at the beginning of the day, it will motivate us to finish the easier, yet other necessary, tasks that follow during the day. Afterall, if you can finish that massive paper at 10:00 AM, then your laundry seems like a break from all the hard work you've accomplished previously in the day. I am definitely going to start incorporating this into my schedule. However, the biggest challenge for me in this is my sleeping schedule. In fact, I find it so ironic that as I am typing a Time Management post, it is already midnight.
Something I have found to work for me is to have achievable goals for each day. Although it seems that you can miraculously accomplish 30 things on the next day, the reality is that life gets in the way. While creating eager challenges for yourself can push you to attack new goals, it is also important to be reasonable in what you can accomplish so that you will not inevitably get disappointed when you only get halfway through the long list at the end of the day.
Time is Ticking, Etsy
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