Course Name : Study skills

Task : Time management

Submitted to : Stephan Davis Trevathan
Submitted by : Ali Abbasi

Questions:
1. What is your time management profile?
2. How do timetables, diaries, wall planners and listing compare as
organizational methods?
3. How does establishing routines help in effective time management?
4. Identify two tips that are effective and two that ineffective in dealing with
procrastination? What has or has not worked for you?

Answer:
1. As a student, I have been really concerned to manage my time both effectively and
efficiently in order to achieve good results. For that, I needed to establish a time
management profile, First, and after doing some research on tools that can help me
manage my time perfectly, I got into the Covey Eisenhower’s Time Management
Matrix. The idea here is about to focus on things that are both important and urgent
which will generate a reactive response or behavior based on what must be done as
an action to that matter right now, instead of focusing on things that are important
and not urgent or not important and not urgent. This tool has helped a lot on
prioritizing the important tasks as I can class each one into the right quadrants and
see the degree to which it is important and help me identify the time wasters.
Furthermore, I try to be proactive and put first things first by prioritizing the
important tasks instead of constantly reacting to urgencies.
2. Well, time management can be increasingly challenging especially for adult learners
who juggle different priorities in life such as academic studies, work and family.
However, tools like timetables, diaries and wall planners have shown good results on
efficiency when using them as an organizational method. For instance, wall planners
are the best when it comes to time commitments as they make much more visible as
well as more realistic. In the other hand, diaries are convenient and the important
things about them is that they are portable so that an advantage to have them with
always with you. What a person needs to know is that each tool of these serves
different purposes and depends on the nature of tasks and some might also prefer
to use a combination.

3. Personally, I think when establishing routines, you get familiar with the stuff you are
going to do and after days pass you get more effective doing them. We cannot deny
the fact that routines provide a very encouraging well structured to daily life. It
offers stability and you be more committed and realistic about time. Moreover, it
saves time by helping you to keep from wasting it, as routines help you to settle
down to work more quickly. Furthermore, routines help to achieve a good balance
between work, studying and other life tasks, it helps people to work steadily toward
there personal and career goals while understanding what they can achieve
realistically with their time.

4. First if we have to understand that procrastination is not a time management

problem, rather, and most of the times it can be a result on having difficulty
managing negative feelings and most of them can be related to anxiety and
boredom, from that we can realize automatically that the first effective tip can be
not catastrophizing it or making a big deal out of it instead the procrastinator should
look for the whys and forgive themselves for procrastinating, this helps to feel more
positive and can reduce the likelihood to procrastinate in the future, Moreover, to
overcome that, procrastinators should not keep focusing on short-term and long-
term consequences of doing a task since they can only think bout how that task can
be stressing in short-term as well as they will get stressed over not doing it In long
term, instead they should focus on why they have to do this tasks and the benefit
that will comes after completing it. The second tip will be having an attractive
reward system that meet one’s preferences of course. For instance, when someone
devote some of the time to work on a project or a homework, they should reward
themselves to make it more enjoyable and not get into boredom since
procrastination is a result of a bored emotional state. However, there is some tips
that I think they are not effective when it comes to using them to deal with
procrastination. For instance, to give a deadline in order to finish the project in time,
this can turn out to the wrong direction since procrastinators can be easily stressed
by any similar factors that generate stress which will make them not working on the
project but instead, they must make a goal to achieve or work in some parts by a
given a time. The second ineffective tip is that people may think working alone can
save time for them while working on a task but especially for procrastinators that
cannot work effectively since they have to ask for someone or one of their peers
because peer pressure can have a good results on self-monitoring and relieve the
stress coming from working on tasks.