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Effective Time Management Strategies

This document provides tips and strategies for effective time management. It emphasizes that time is a limited resource that must be managed properly. It encourages the reader to assess their various roles and commitments, and evaluate how they currently spend their time. The document then offers specific time management tools like calendars, planners, and to-do lists to help organize one's schedule. It also introduces a time management matrix to categorize tasks as either urgent/important or not urgent/important in order to prioritize how time is allocated. Finally, the reader is challenged to identify a poor time management habit and work to replace it with a better one over the course of 32 days.

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Effective Time Management Strategies

This document provides tips and strategies for effective time management. It emphasizes that time is a limited resource that must be managed properly. It encourages the reader to assess their various roles and commitments, and evaluate how they currently spend their time. The document then offers specific time management tools like calendars, planners, and to-do lists to help organize one's schedule. It also introduces a time management matrix to categorize tasks as either urgent/important or not urgent/important in order to prioritize how time is allocated. Finally, the reader is challenged to identify a poor time management habit and work to replace it with a better one over the course of 32 days.

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TIME MANAGEMENT

Ideas for Managing Today, Tomorrow,


and your Future
Why is Time Management
Important?
 Time is a limited & scarce resource
 You need time to get what you want out
of life
 You can accomplish more with less effort
 Remember: You can’t control time, but
you CAN control what you do with it!!
What do you have on your plate?

 What roles do you play?


 What duties/obligations do you have?
 What have you committed to?

 Take a few minutes to consider what’s on


your plate…
 What time constraints do you have?
Assess Your Time-
Management Skill Level

 Where Does the Time Go?


 Consider what’s on your plate!
Enhancing Academic Performance
through Time Management
 Think of school as a Full Time Job
 Schedule study time between 8a-5p
 1.5-2 hours outside of class
 Plan study time right before or right after
class
 Plan for breaks (45-15-45)
Tools for Time-Management

 If you say you can remember it all in


your head, then you must not have much
to do…
 Semester or Monthly calendar
 Day or Weekly calendar
 Planner
 To-Do List
Self-Management Quadrants
Urgent Not Urgent

Quadrant 1 Quadrant 2
Important
Important Important activities done
activities done without
under pressure pressure
Quadrant 3
Unimportant Quadrant 4
Not
Important
activities done Simply time-
w/ a sense of wasters
urgency
4|7
Utilizing Quadrant II

 How would you categorize the things on


your plate??
Urgent Not Urgent

Quadrant 1 Quadrant 2
Important Important
Important
activities done Activities done
under pressure without pressure

Quadrant 3
Unimportant Quadrant 4
Not
Important activities done Simply time-
with a sense of wasters
urgency

4|9
Time-Savers

 What helps you save time?


-on-line bill pay, making lunch night
before
 Share ideas with each other!
32 Day Commitment

 Some behavioral psychologists suggest


that breaking an old habit or starting a
new one requires about 32 days
 Think of one time-management bad
habit…
 I challenge you to create a good habit in
32 days!
Thank you!!!

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