1. Joe Cuseo, PhD Aaron Thompson, PhD Michele Campagna, EdD Viki Fecas, PhD

3.  To help you appreciate the significance of managing time and supply you with a powerful set of time management strategies that can be used to promote your success in college and beyond

4.  College schedules differ greatly from high school schedules, leaving students with more free time outside of class.  Students are expected to do more academic work on their own outside of class.  Research shows the ability to manage time effectively as playing a crucial role in college success (Erickson, Peters, & Strommer, 2006).

7.  Break down your time and become more aware how it’s spent.  Identify which tasks you need to accomplish and when you need to accomplish them. Use planners and calendars.  Rank your tasks in order of their importance. Determine urgency and gravity of tasks.

8.  Regular routines assist us in organizing and gaining control of life by doing things by design rather than leaving them to chance or accident.  Planning time increases the likelihood that things happen for us rather than to us.

9.  A good time-management plan should have several time frames: A long-range plan for the entire academic term that identifies deadlines for reports and papers due toward the end of the term A mid-range plan for the upcoming month and week A short-range plan for the following day

10.  Reserve time to take care of the unexpected  Balance of work and recreation  Flexibility

12.  The philosophy of a procrastinator is “Why do today what can be put off to tomorrow?”  Adopting this philosophy promotes a perpetual pattern of postponing what needs to be done until the last possible moment, which results in rushing frantically to get it done (and compromising its quality), getting it only partially done, or not finishing it.

15.  Fear of failure  Perfectionism  Indecisiveness  Thrill seeking

16.  Continually practice effective time-management strategies.  Make the start of work as inviting or appealing as possible.  Make the work manageable.  Understand that organization matters.

17.  Recognize that location matters.  Arrange the order or sequence of your work tasks to intercept procrastination when you’re most likely to experience it.  Learn that momentum matters.