Thoughts on Time Strategies

This semester I had to learn to apply time management strategies in order to ensure that I am going to stay on tasks and be caught up in my classes. Once I get settled in and comfortable with my class schedules, I plan to take advantage of the schedule plan laid out for me in this class and the ability to work ahead. I have quite a bit of time in between my other classes which I will be using to work on assignments in this class.

The first article I chose to read was Four Questions to Help You Overcome Procrastination by Peter Banarjea. I always struggled with procrastination, it has become habitual since high school and I have wanted to overcome it since I started attending OU, but I still procrastinate to this day. I plan to incorporate these four questions every time I get the urge to put something until later. The final and fourth question in this article is the one I tend to glaze over the most. I know that procrastination will not be beneficial in anyway, but I continue to do so anyway. Now that I know that I need to stop and think about the consequences, I will probably be more useful with my time.

The second article that I read was The Psychology of Checklists: Why Setting Small Goals Motivates Us to Accomplish Bigger Things by Lauren Marchese. In high school, they made us buy a planner so that we can utilize it to manage our assignments and projects. I understand the importance of checklists, which is why I bought myself a planner to use this semester. The idea that the satisfaction provided when finished a checklist is what drives to finish it is incredibly interesting, and true in my case. I will definitely be organizing my assignments, from this class and others, into checklist in order to ensure that I am managing my time appropriately. 

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