Keys to Effective Time Management To master your time is to master your life Alan Lakein

LIFE IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL

Time is Life It is irreversible and irreplaceable To waste your time is to waste your life Time is Life It is irreversible and irreplaceable To waste your time is to waste your life

The more I consult my feelings during the day, tune into myself, to see if what I am doing is what I want to be doing, the less I feel at the end of the day that I’ve been wasting time. -- Hugh Prather From Notes to Myself

What Do We Do With Our Lives  Spend 27 years sleeping 27 years sleeping 3.3 years eating 3.3 years eating 5 months waiting at traffic lights 5 months waiting at traffic lights 8 months opening unwanted mail 8 months opening unwanted mail 1 year looking for misplaced objects 1 year looking for misplaced objects 2 years attempting to return phone calls 2 years attempting to return phone calls 4 years doing housework 4 years doing housework 5 years waiting in lines 5 years waiting in lines 13.8 years working 13.8 years working

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past. Richard Bach

1 year of college = $15,000 5 years = $75, years out of the full-time work force = $90,000 TOTAL = $180,000 Cost of your “TIME” Investment in College

Value of a College Education Today? $1,500,000 or more over your working lifetime

Time Wasters  Dropping a 3 credit class = $750  Dropping 1 class each semester = 8 x 750 = $6000  One additional year of college = $15,000  One lost year of professional wages = $ ,000 Total Cost = $56,000

Four Factors that Affect How We Use Our Time???? 1.What we value. 2.What our goals are. 3.What our priorities are. 4.What our actions are and how we use our time.

Time Circle Values Values Time Priorities Goals

Friends?? Friends?? Family?? Family?? Education?? Education?? Do we go to class?Do we go to class? Do we do our homework?Do we do our homework? Do we study before we play?Do we study before we play? Do we actively seek to learn on our own?Do we actively seek to learn on our own? What do we value????

What Do You Value? Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach

What are your Priorities??  College success and career preparation  Family/Children  Money/Survival  Friends/Relationships  Work  Athletics  Play time/Having fun

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours. Richard Bach

What are your goals? 1.Short term - one day 2.One week 3.One month 4.One semester 5.One year 6.Graduation/Career Path Discovery 7.Career Goals 8.Lifestyle Goals

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

How do we Avoid our High Priority Tasks???  Convince ourselves we deserve a break today  Socializing, visiting, ing and telephoning  Reading the unimportant stuff, magazines, etc.  Doing things yourself that others could be doing for you. What’s your favorite escape???

How do we Avoid our High Priority Tasks???  Solving other people’s problems.  Overdoing it. Taking a break to watch TV and watching it for 4 hours.  Running away. Shopping, coffee with friends.  Daydreaming about... the weekend, vacation, etc.

Procrastination: Do you suffer from it?????  Reasons for procrastination: Fear Fear Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Lack of proper priorities Lack of proper priorities Lack of direction/goals Lack of direction/goals Lack of value clarification Lack of value clarification

How to Improve Time Management  Keep a record of your time for one full week--168 hours.  Make a realistic time budget sheet.  Make daily to do list -- use the A, B, C system to prioritize the list: A’s must be done today A’s must be done today B’s important but not A’s B’s important but not A’s C’s would be nice but… C’s would be nice but…

How to Improve Time Management  Keep a daily planner  Keep a calendar  Use reminders -- notes. Post- it notes.  See time as your life!!!!!