Hey, If you’re having problems with managing your time and need to figure out how to use your time more wisely this a great place to be. In this blog, I’ll be talking about my top 4 choices of methods that worked and hopefully will help you now and in the future. I will also list my experience using those methods and give you a few great ways to start each one of the methods listed in this blog.
The first method that may help you is to think of how great it would feel once you take 5-10 minutes of your day to know what times you can relax, which days you have to do the work and what day exactly you would finish it on. From my experiences this helped me a lot because of how much it convinces me to just take 5-10 minutes from my day to know exactly how long it would take me to complete multiple assignments, one specific assignment or even study for an upcoming assessment/test.
My second method that may help you with time management is to identify the things that distract you easily or are straight-up time wasters. To simplify this, remove things that distract you or waste your time unless you finish everything or need a small break. The best and easiest way to begin this is to identify the distractions and put them in a place further away that won’t let you get easily distracted or give it to someone you trust to keep it away from you until you’re done entirely. From my experiences, this helped me by being able to focus on that one task well and being engaged with it.
My third method that may help you with time management is breaking down your schedule into more simpler steps. In simple terms focus on one assignment and try not to worry about the next assignment and worry about it once you get the assignment. I don’t have a great way for you to get started except just start doing something sometime, then start doing it often, and eventually it just becomes a habit. From my personal experience, this helped me out so much because half of the time I wasted on an assignment was worrying about another assignment and thinking of how I can do the other assignment. You may find this skill useless at first but once you get further on in life, it’s a great tip and skill to have.
My last and final method is simple but also makes a huge impact on time management. The method is to take breaks. This skill only applies to people who don’t get distracted and start getting worn out for working way too long. This method is extremely useful because you save more time than getting distracted every five minutes. I found this to be extremely useful because sometimes if I didn’t understand the problem (specifically math but can apply it to all) and tried every single thing I knew, once I took that break I had a well-rested brain and found it easier to solve it. The amount of minutes I would recommend for breaks is between fifteen to twenty five minutes varying on the amount of assignment and the length of them.
Overall, you can conclude that the four methods that helped me and may help you were thinking ahead of the results, Identifying the distraction you have and removing/avoiding them, breaking down your schedule and making it more simple, and taking breaks. I used to be extremely awful at managing time, I didn’t even use notebooks, calendars, nothing. But once I decided to give it a try, I thought I would just automatically become better at it which was far from the truth. I had to figure out other things that I had to do and luckily these were most of the things that I had to get better I did but I’m not perfect at it and no one will ever be perfect at it.
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Oleksii Babiuk- St. Patrick- DMSF Class of 2028