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gluestickcherrybum · 5 years

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Procrastination Tip #2 - Time Management

Howdy guys! (>w<)/

Quick backstory, I’ve always believed that when we have less time we tend to appreciate it more, so in my university, I took the absolutely lunatic decision in joining and taking important roles of five different clubs just to fill up my mental space. I actually have more reasons for this but i won’t talk about it in this post. So i was a treasurer here, a president there, a secretary in this club and organizing events for that club. I know, its a headache but somehow i manage to plow through everything and still manage to do well academically. I’ve been wanting to share this for a while so here we go.

1. Know your priorities

You’d think academics came first for me, but I put my clubs first because they involved other people and not just myself. I attend almost every single meeting and make room for every club equally. Also other people get upset when you don’t put them first apparently. But hey, keep your objectives in mind when you do anything. Like I said, i had my reasons so I kept to that all the time. Second was academics. Keep track of due dates, assignments and never do things to the last minute and you’ll be okay. I put my hobbies third and before my social life because my hobbies benefit me and act as stress free breaks and I’m kinda antisocial anyway, but you do you.

2. Time blocking

Now that you know what’s important for you, you can visualize what you need to spend your time on. Make a schedule starting from what time you target to wake up (mine is 4 am) to when you plan to go to sleep (11:30pm). Make a mark at every 30 mins instead of an hour to better divide your time. Now block off the times when you’re definitely occupied such as classes, meetings, dance practice etc. and you should be left with spaces of time when you’re free to do other things. You can fill these spaces with Pomodoros chock full of tasks to accomplish or designate little tasks and set how long you think you should you should spend doing it (ie decluttering my room [10 mins], hanging laundry [5 mins]).

3. The 1.3.5 Rule

If you don’t have a specific schedule for the day like a weekend or when you’re free all day, do not waste it. To inhibit a productive lifestyle, you must be consistent or at least be able to keep up that momentum. But you definitely don’t want to overwhelm yourself by stuffing it with endless chores that would end up demotivating yourself. That’s when you use the 1.3.5 Rule meaning for each day you should do one big task in which if you finish this task, your day will feel complete and satisfactory (ie starting that one assignment, or mopping your whole house), 3 medium tasks to make your day feel better and more productive (ie laundry or revision or smth) and 5 small tasks that should only take a short amount of time to fill up the rest of your day (ie calling a relative, printing out something)

4. DO NOT neglect sleep or eating

This has been something that i desperately try to tell a lot of people, i know some people feel more accomplished because they're actually sacrificing something that seems like a luxury to them. Cut it out. That’s your ego talking. Sleep is important. Period. Some people even think im “carefree” for actually getting enough sleep but no. I sleep because I need it. It’s important. Make sure you eat healthily too. Eat them veggies, you’re not an incompetent 6 year old. Drink that water. Trust me, your body will thank you for it. Plus it will help you work efficiently and your body and focus will work optimally. It’s only damaging to regret these necessities. As well as this, if you’re a Muslim or any other religion will daily responsibilities, please please please, don’t neglect prayers, don’t forget amalan sunnah every now and again because they say if you make time for God, He’ll make time for you (in which for me means im less prone to distractions but Wallahua’lam). (>w<)

5. Know your distractions and yeet them

If you’re as antisocial as I am, then you can definitely check social media off your list ahaha (qwq). Whatever you do in your fun time, whatever de-stresses you and whatever isn't in on top of your to do list is your distractions. Use apps or extensions to limit using your gadgets and restrict them to your break times or reward yourself with them once you check off everything on your to do list. If you’re planning to do them as a break be sure to have time constraints too in case you go overboard. Remember, taking breaks is not the same as giving up on work. If things get too hard, take a breath and keep at it. I believe in you!

6. Be consistent

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Consistency is key. If you use a bullet journal, I’m sure you’ve heard of a habit tracker. Frankly, its a spread that keeps track of certain habits to have on the daily. But if you don’t use a habit tracker, the Seinfield Method works just as well. It’s a very similar method devised by the man, the myth, the legend, Jerry Seinfield. Jerry Seinfield is a comedian and he pressures himself to consistently write a new joke every single day. To keep up with this daily habit, he keeps a calendar on his wall with a large red marker beside it. Each day when he wrote a joke, he would mark an X on the calendar. His goal was to not break the chain of X’s on his calendar so to keep himself accountable of his own progress.

7. Find what works best for you

By now you’re probably thinking I’m a complete maniac with calendars and timings and strict habits and all that. Yes, I am a maniac and that is what works for me. For my finals i practically did repeated Pomodoros from 4 am to 11:30 pm stopping only to eat, shower, and pray every single day of revision month before the finals and my roommate thinks i’m straight up insane. Yes, I did lose touch of humanity and that’s why I don’t condone this behavior to anyone. Please find out what works best for you, i find that my head is a bit clearer early in the morning because i’m naturally a morning person, but some people prefer to study in the evening and that’s okay. Find when your brain feels most active and you can work on the harder tasks at that time. UwU

Okie dokie lokie. Sorry for the long post, as usual i try to explain stuff as much as possible. My finals are around the corner so wish me luck QwQ

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gardenstateofmind · 7 years

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i Have to finish this research paper today no option, and im hoping i can get done by 6 and then i Have to do music work which i estimate will take me two hours but if necessary i do have about an hour in between english and music that i can use to finish up work if need be. so im aiming for like 8 am to be done with the absolutely necessary stuff and from then until 9:30 i can just kinda see what i can do in that time. i want to turn in a reading response for english that was due yesterday, so if around an hour and a half will be enough i can get that done and then after music i have 4 hours free until asl, so i can probably get my flashcards done in around an hour, and i Think that's the only hw due, so i should be fine for that unless im forgetting smth and then once i get home it'll be around 8 and i work at 11 am the next morning, i have to wake up at the Latest 10:30. so really i should go to bed at 12 so i can get a Good amount of sleep before work especially since ive barely slept the past two days. in the four hours i technically have free, i should shower and possibly take a bath bc these long shifts have my leg muscles rly sore and i want to feel okay on friday. and i need to eat Something even if it's small. so that really only leaves me with two hours of complete free time. i need to turn in this assignment for music that's already late, so i cannot procrastinate but idk if i can do it in under two hours. and i really want to be able to relax just a little. so i might put it off then friday i get free from work around 7:30 and i dont have work on saturday (my first actual day off that's not bc of school since ive started there lol) so saturday i need to power through the rest of my assignments: two reading responses (parrot and tristan), do the music hw i'll have, and whatever asl i have. that's necessary. it should only be about three hours of actual, so that will probably take six hours. and then i can leave the rest of saturday for Myself. sunday i work 7 am to 2 pm so i have almost a full day free afterward. and i dont work until 2:30 pm on monday. so yeah i have basically a full day to myself, and i should use that to actually get ahead on some work, like my asl flashcards and get started on the next reading responses for english. i have my psych appointment monday too so maybe that's when i can get adderall and Hopefully that'll finally help ;-; and then tuesday i have music and english, which if i do what i need to between sunday and money i wont have to worry abt any homework. so i can take a lil off, and then wednesday is also 2:30 to 7 so it kinda eats up my day. thursday is when my classes should catch up to where i want to get ahead to. i dont have the schedule for next week yet so idk what friday will look like. but i really need to call rutgers so i can move on with my application and get started on fafsa. so like a week from now i want to be completely on track with my immediate responsibilities that i can actually focus on the extra stuff. and i want to have all my rutgers stuff ready to go by the end of april, which should be okay for my classes bc they dont end till like may 20 something, so april will be a work month, no big projects or tests during that time. so yeah this is my plan for the week and general idea for the next month also i guess concerta IS helping a little bc im able to write out these long ass posts, but this is at the max dose and im only barely getting some concentration, so yeah it's still not working well

#personal #i just took an extra half hour break to type out these last few posts #but it's okay bc i accounted for that im my planning #and gave myself like half an hour of wiggle room for if i got distracted #so i should still be oka for time to get the paper and music work done #even if i dont get the reading response done like i can deal with not doing that tonight even tho i really want to have it done #OKAY I HAVE LIKE FIVE HOURS LEFT BEFORE I HAVE TO GET READY FOR SCHOOL I CAN DO THIS #i got all my research links there i just need weave them into a paper #long post #to do list

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