Time Management Take control of your time

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Time ManagementTake control of your time

• Presented by
• June Harper, Counsellor
• Prepared by
• Joanne MacDonald
• Holland College

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You have 86,400 to spend..

• What would you buy with the money?
• You must spend all the money.
• You are not allowed to bank any of the money.

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You have 86,400 seconds every day!

• Do we plan our time as carefully as we plan to
  spend the same amount of money?
• Is time more valuable than money?

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Questions to ponder..

• If we dont decide how to spend our time, who
  does?
• If we waste our time, what happens to it?
• What would you do if you had more time?

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Time Management

• Time Myths
• Slight Edge Law
• Prioritizing Organizing
• Fighting Procrastination
• Prime Time
• Self Evaluation
• Steps to Good Time Management

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Myths about time.

• Myth No one ever has enough time.
• Fact - Everyone has all there is.
• Myth There are many ways to save time.
• Fact Time passes. It cannot be saved.
• Myth The longer you work, the more you
  accomplish.
• Fact The smarter you work, the more you
  accomplish.

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Slight Edge Law

• Easy little disciplines done consistently over
  time add up to the biggest accomplishments.
• Success comes from a hundred insignificant
  decisions we make every day.
• What are some of the decisions you make
  consistently everyday?

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Stephen Covey TM Guru

• Whats the point in finding the fastest way up
  to the top only to find we are leaning against
  the wrong building?
• The key is not to prioritize your schedule, but
  to schedule your priorities!

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Prioritize and Organize.

• Distinguish between important and urgent.

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Urgent, Important or Not?

• A project that was assigned in class today and
  due in 2 days.
• Picking up someone at a pre-arranged time.
• Arranging to have the car repaired next week.
• Doing your laundry.
• Getting your assignment started.
• Making plans to go to the movie.
• Following a schedule for studying.
• Going home to watch TV.

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Procrastination

• The art of putting off something that needs to be
  done.
• Postponing a task until a later date.

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Procrastination

• Procrastination has little if anything to do with
  laziness
• In fact, most procrastinators busy themselves
  with many (unimportant) tasks in the process of
  avoiding bigger tasks
• Ever do this yourself?

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Procrastination Personalities!

• Perfectionist
• Dreamer
• Worrier
• Crisis Maker
• Defier
• Overdoer

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Strategies to conquer Procrastination.

• Use the balance sheet approach..weigh the
  benefits of completing the task versus the
  effects of procrastinating.
• Set reasonable goals.
• Get started.
• Break the task into smaller parts.
• Ask for help with tasks and projects.
• Dont expect perfection.

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Prime time

• Know and use your peak productivity time. Do you
  know what yours is?
• Studies show that for most people, the time when
  physical and mental energy is most likely to come
  together is 1030 am.

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Self Evaluation..

• What are your time-robbers?
• What is your personality when you are
  procrastinating?
• What strategies that you learned today will you
  be trying to weave into your life?
• What areas from the Time Management Assessment
  will you be working on?

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Steps to developing good time management skills

• Do it now.. try the ten minute ticker.
• Say No Remind yourself of your goals.
• Use your class time well
• Start projects as soon as they are assigned.
• Divide each task into small, manageable chunks.
• Use small pockets of time well.

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Steps to developing good time management skills

• Use your prime time to your advantage.
• Dont put off until tomorrow what you can do
  today.
• Turn off the television and the Internet.
• Ten minute ticker
• Stop studying!
• (Source Making your Mark)

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And Remember..

• To control your life, you must control your time
  and have specific goals
• If you dont control your time..it can lead to a
  lot of stress.
• If youre going in the wrong direction, speeding
  up doesnt help.

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Thank you for participating in todays
presentation!!