1. Time Management

2. What You Will Learn How to set goals and priorities
How to create a time-management system
How to assess your energy level and time wasters
How to work in alignment with your learning style
How to overcome procrastination
How to handle interruptions

3. Barriers to Time Management
Factors that affect time management:
Your attitude
Your energy level
Your ability to concentrate

4. Assessment Where Does Your Time Go?
You can divide time into three areas:
Committed Time
Maintenance Time
Discretionary Time

5. Committed Time
Committed time includes activities involved in achieving your immediate and long-term goals
School
Studying
Work
Commuting
Family time

6. Maintenance Time
Maintenance time is the time you spend maintaining yourself
Eating
Sleeping
Bathing
Exercising
Maintaining your home

7. Discretionary Time
Discretionary time is time that is yours to use as you please
Use discretionary time for things you value most in life
Building relationships
Contributing to the community
Contributing to your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being

8. First tip—focus on priorities Not activities
Managing Your Time
First tip—focus on priorities
Not activities

9. TIPS first rule of time management is to set goals
are Your days a treadmill of activities, crises, and endless tasks?
Do you you focus on the important as well as the urgent?
Time-Management Strategies
Write A daily to-do list.
Make a project board.
Do the tough tasks first.
Break projects down into smaller tasks.
Consolidate similar tasks

10. Time Management Study Tips
Study at your high-energy time.
Study everywhere and anywhere.
Study in short segments throughout the day
Get organized
Be flexible, patient, and persistent

11. Organizing

12. Organizing
Organize your office, study area, and activities to achieve your goals
Use positive reinforcement to motivate yourself
Monitor your attitude, behavior, expectations, and the results you are creating
Keep all your class information in one place
Organize your computer files so you can find them easily
Don’t sell you books back, many times you can go back to texts and use them to complete assignments throughout the program

13. Organizing Set daily priorities. Break the project into small tasks
Interruptions steal your time—find ways to work for shorter times
You may need to schedule frequent breaks but negotiate with family members to not interrupt for minute intervals
Don’t let the telephone and other people control you, let phone calls go to the answering machine for short periods of time.
Combine socializing with exercising or eating lunch or dinner

14. Organizing
Create an organized place to study, well lighted
Create a good time to study—schedule it on your calendar
Create quiet time.
Study in the library.
Do first things first.
Just say no!

15. Juggling Work Load Be flexible Communicate expectations
Increase your energy
Find good daycare
Create positive time
Delegate and develop
Create a support system
Get organized
Balance your life

16. Counting hours There are 168 hours in a week Sleep Grooming
Study—reading, writing, researching
Work
Commuting
Shopping
Paying bills
Going to class (plan 203 hours for every UNIT you are taking)
Family and friends time
Other responsibilities

17. Rules of Managing Time Be realistic! Be kind to yourself
Take responsibility for only those jobs that are your responsibility
Learn to say “NO!” Nicely of course
If you are faced with a decision, always pick the choice that brings you closer to yourself, your loved ones