Time Strategies

Time management will be crucial in my success for this class. Over the alst few years I have learned that by far the biggest piece of time management with my courses is allotting enough time to thoroughly read the assigned material. Reading is a static time category, in that it will always take me (at minimum) a set amount of time to read something. Unlike studying flashcards or other rote memorization, reading is something that will always come at a fixed rate. There is no way around it. Peter Banerjea's Four Questions to Help You Overcome Procrastination and Thomas Oppong's Eat The Frogs First Thing in The Morning (And Other Better Work Habits) shed some supporting light on this for me. Banerjea's helps me with the "addrenaline" issue of working. That is, a lot of times the hardest part of getting work done is the part about getting started. Once I begin and find a groove, work gets a lot easier to complete. So Peter's idea of picking what to start with and going form there will be pretty helpful. Oppong's advice feeds off a device that I have recently found to be helpful in my academic (and household) life. That is, I always phrased it as "Do as the waiter does." That is, when you see something that needs to be done, just do it right then and there. With house hold things this applies to dishes, clothes, and lots of other materials. Just like school work, if you notice something that needs to be completed, just do it right there. There really is no better time, or at least no more comfortable time, to complete work than at the present time. That is, it is never going to be any more enjoyable. So you may as well do it when it makes itself evident.

Just like Tennial thinks, there is nothing worse than being late. (From Wikipedia commons)