Overcoming Time-Management Challenges
...ls a need to check your priorities and organize accordingly. In many ways, a semester of work for a student is similar to installing new light fixtures in your home. If you identify your needs, prioritize the different places to search for the fixtures, set time goals and budget our money, the fixture buying process can be a successful and rewarding experience. This is the structured and non-spontaneous method. You could plan to purchase your light fixtures through just entering the nearest fixture store and buying whichever fixture looked like it might work. This is the casual and spontaneous method. It seems, unfortunately, that many students use this strategy. College then becomes a very exciting, but usually overwhelming semester of missed due dates, late nights, and stress. In keeping with our comparison to the actual planning of a semester like purchasing and installing new light fixtures, which fixtures you are replacing and who will install them, how much money you have to spend and if electrical permits are required. Along the same lines, you must use time management within a semester and focus on the “Big Picture” by laying out your important assignments, due dates, and other personal concerns which may influence priorities at any given time. Pre-planning could keep you from owning and purchasing the wrong type of fixtures for you installation and hiring an unlicensed electrician to install them for you. Appling the same technique, plan your college life, set you goals and boundaries, specifically choose the course study that applies to you. Set aside blocks of time to study each subject, if you don’t finish, just set aside another block of time and continue with your other your scheduled tasks. Don’t over schedule or you will never have time to relax and or spend personal time with your friends. Some students’ sign up for too many classes, don’t do this, organize before you sign up and use the planning tools available on the Del Mar Web page to help you succeed. The actual purchase of your new light fixtures, planning for the installation by a licensed electrician and expenses are the final items to complete your new lighting improvements job. A daily planner or down-loadable calendar, is an important tool for monitoring the doable, task oriented goals of your day. You can purchase daily planners at the Del Mar Book Store or local stationary store which can be effective at helping you monitor your daily tasks. Your daily planner should have sequential days, showing time from morning to night. It should include visual aspects ...