bilis_money Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 anybody would like to share your time management secret? just hoping someone will give a reply. thanks in advance. -i don't want to waste my time anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelmanronald06 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I don't have a time management. I go to class at my scheduled time, go to work at my scheduled time, and in between i A) Program b) surf net c) watch tv d) party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balmung-San Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I wake up real early. Then I go to work, where I spend my days pretending to write PHP code (well, I do actually get some things done), and posting on these forums. Then I get home, eat dinner, and usually go to school. If I don't have school I either go over my girlfriend's (if she's not working), or sit around playing City of Heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilis_money Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 ha, ha, ha those are HAPPY GO LUCKY time management... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I have a hard time with this. I work from home and attend school, and so MWF I'm at school in the morning and then TR, I'm at school in the evening, so it's hard to keep a steady schedule. You just have to be aware of what you're doing. I found wearing a WATCH helped me a ton because now if I spend too much time goofing off I realize it and say to myself okay, you have a paper due tomorrow and it's 10pm, GO WRITE IT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effigy Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Turn off the TV and feed your curiosities. Doodle them on a note card you can carry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 SECRET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Sit down and write everything down as a want vs. need, and prioritize accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilis_money Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 thanks crayon... i think i need to google it. i'm looking for a good model for this. so that i can follow it easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Well seeing as how everybody's day to day activities are different, I don't think you are really going to find any solid one-size-fits-all "model." Time management is the same as working toward any other goal: write it down, allot a timeframe for it, and do it. Make a list of all of the things you need to do during the day, decide which order it should all go in based on any number of things, allot x amount of time for each thing, and follow the schedule. Don't keep doing the activity if you run out of the alloted time; move on to the next thing. Period. If that's not possible, then learn to do it faster, or adjust your schedule to a more reasonable time next time. Because if you don't, then there's not point to the whole time management schedule thing. Making it is not the hard part. Sticking to it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilis_money Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 WOW!!! I found it using google. I think this will help me a lot, to be more productive and not to waste my time and to earn more money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgmyr Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 How about this... 1. Who is paying you the most? 2. Who NEEDS it now? 3. Who isn't a pain in the a**? ...that's who gets your attention first. or you can use a model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustinnoe Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Checklists. Shows progression when you start checking things off which helps reduce procrastination. Oh, and make sure the items are small bits and pieces of everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 You need to categorize everything you do as a priority or a non-priority. My priorities, in no particular order: spouse, family, hobbies, work, some aspects of school My non-priorities: everything else Now you need to determine where you want to spend all your time; for most people this is a no-brainer. I like to spend as much time as possible engaged in priorities, which means anything else I do I try to do in minimal time. I'm an extremely efficient person; I constantly analyze my procedures for accomplishing tasks and try to find ways to cut down the number of steps or total amount of time required. I live by a very simple rule: Don't spend any more time than is necessary to complete a non-priority task. As an example, given two equally difficult school assignments for equally difficult classes, one in computer science and the other in history, I would always spend more time on the computer science assignment. Computer science is my priority, history is not; I do not factor my GPA into this at all. If I know that I have approximately 10 hours total to work on both of them and I can spend 2 hours on the history assignment and guarantee at least a B, then that's all I'll spend on it. That leaves me 8 hours to spend on my priority (or less if I feel that I'll receive an A after only 6 hours of work). You also need to learn how to multi-task. Everyone has a certain amount of dead time during the day when they're not really doing anything. Time spent driving, waiting in traffic, taking a bath / shower, at the gym, sitting on the toilet can be put to good use. I almost always read while sitting on the toilet or taking a bath. If you have a regular 1 hour commute to and from work, that's 2 hours you can spend thinking about what argument you want to make in a paper or how you want to solve a particular programming problem. Same thing with the gym if you're on the treadmill or elliptical. Another important skill is evaluating how long you have to work on something. If you're looking to kill 30 minutes before you start working on homework, don't engage yourself in an activity that is likely to go over 30 minutes. I also find it helps to spend a good amount of time doing nothing. A lot of times I think people might set out to do something that would only take them 30 minutes but really takes an hour because they're tired and their mind is consequently distracted. Taking a 20 minute nap and then completing the task in 30 minutes saves 10 minutes overall. The most important thing to remember though, is that we're all gonna die at some point, so don't sweat the little things. They're really not that important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weknowtheworld Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I think Time Management is Personal Goal Setting - Planning to live your life your way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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