Time Strategies

A resource that must be managed well in life

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My thoughts on Time Management

As any student knows whether it be Secondary School or College, Time Management is one of the most important skills you could ever have. Ensuring you have enough time to allocate to the tasks you need to complete is integral to success especially in a course such as CDM which is mostly reliant on CA which involves the completion of multiple work/submissions per week to make up your grade for each of the modules you do each semester. Without effective Time Management it is very easy to become overwhelmed and lose not only important points towards your grade but also your knowledge of the course will suffer as you scramble to finish all of your work at once which I know from past experience can be both disorienting and disheartening for your own head space. If you can manage your time well and complete tasks as you receive them instead of putting them at the back of your mind to "be finished later" you will be much more successful in the course and in the future in areas such as the job sector as it is a respected and desired quality in an employee.

For this module I feel out of all the skills you should have and develop time management is the one that will result in you getting a good grade at the end of the year. If you can make a reasonable attempt at each of the tasks required each week to the best of your ability, even if you struggle with some areas the effort and skill you used ensuring you had enough time to have a crack at each of them will result in you having a stockpile of points which contribute toward your final grade.

The two supplied articles I read where "3 Steps to Recapture Time" and "Four Questions to Help Overcome Procrastination" I felt that the advice provided in these articles is very practical and can easily be applied by any individual such as student to ensure they can have enough time to get important, necessary tasks done while also avoiding dreaded procrastination while trying to complete these tasks. For me procrastination is one of my biggest faults when it comes to completing tasks. It's like I will always find some benign task to do instead of dedicating my time to the important task at hand. These two articles I felt were important in combating two faults I see in myself "Not having enough time to do what I want to do" and "Falling into the trap of procrastinating"

A simple tactic I have for managing workload is to just start. Once you start working you tend to get into a groove while you do it until you complete it. Even if you would rather do anything else simply starting to work can change your mind. It's true what they say: 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Viktor Reznov