Enhancing personal and Academic Performance Through Time Management and Smart Goals

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 Time management

• Time management is the ability to plan and have control of the time allocated to a
specific work.
• I have chosen time management as a topic of interest because proper use of
allocated time leads to good performance in academic and reduces stress on a
personal level (Razal et al., 2018). Also, it reduces the workload and
procrastinations.
How I have used time management :

• I have been able to manage my own time in the following ways:

1. Through planning
- You cannot manage your time well without first planning the things you
will do within the allocated time.
- Before doing any of my academic work and assignment, I have thoroughly
planned the tasks to start with and the ones to follow.
2. Through prioritization

• Many students have that behaviour of starting doing the less important task first,
which hinder them from completing the more important task by the end of the day
(Alsalem et al., 2017).
• By prioritizing your work, one needs to identify the most critical work and do it
first.
• In my academics, I prioritize the works that need more attention and conducts
them first, and later I deal with the one's that require less attention.
3. Avoiding multitasking

• Multitasking is one of the things that greatly waste time and reduces productivity
in an individual.
• When multitasking, one thinks that one can accomplish many jobs simultaneously,
but you end up accomplishing nothing.
• In my academics, I avoid multitasking assignments, and I deal with those with
high priority first, thus avoiding wastage of time.
Benefits of time management

• Time management has improved my performance by reducing the stress caused

by accumulating works due to poor time management.
• It has also minimized the anxiety caused by finishing assignments late (Aeon et
al., 2017).
• It has also improved my academic performance because:
- I am now able to avoid late submissions of assignments
- able to do and complete my projects on time.
• In the coming future, I plan to create a schedule and include all my studies in it,
which will make me even more successful.
 Smart Goals

• Smart Goals is a framework that is used to attain the most important thing that
you want to be successfully in.
• SMART stands for
-Specific
-Measurable
-Attainable
-Relevant
-Time-bond
• I have chosen smart goals because it guides me step by step on the things to be
done to achieve my academic goals.
How I have used smart goals:

1. By being specific
• It means the goals which I have to set should be clear and concise.
• I should be able to explain why I am setting those goals and how I will achieve
them.
• I set my academic goals at the beginning of each semester by outlining the reasons
and how I will achieve them.
2. By choosing measurable goals

• Measurable goals mean that the student should tell easily if the goal was achieved
without having any doubt.
• When setting my goals, I focus mainly on the results which I want to get and not
the activities that I have completed.
• By focusing on the desired results, I have to be able to set the necessary goals.
3. By choosing attainable goals.

• The chosen goals should be able to be achieved when you make certain efforts.
• I set goals which I know if I work extra hard I can achieve them.
• The goals are supposed to make me stretch a little bit by the most achievable.
 4. The setting of relevant goals

• The goals to be set should make sense and be relevant to my studies.

• I usually choose and set goals relevant to my academics. By saying this, I mean
the things that I can achieve in my studies.
5. By having time-bound goals

• It means that the goals should be associated with a time frame for guidance.
• By use of time-bound I can specify the duration that I will take to achieve my
goals.
• By using time-bound, I can know how long it will take me to achieve a specific
goal.
 Benefits of smart goals

• I have improved my self-confidence and self-esteem through the setting of my

personal goals.
• I have also been able to learn new skills.
• The setting of goals has also improved my academic performance by:
- being able to complete my assignments on time
- gaining confidence by answering questions in class
- participating in discussions
• In the coming future, I will set more challenging goals and make sure I have
followed the smart framework to achieve them (Jina et al.).
 References

• Razali, S. N. A. M., Rusiman, M. S., Gan, W. S., & Arbin, N. (2018). The Impact
of Time Management on Students’ Academic Achievement. Journal of Physics:
Conference Series, 995, Article ID: 012042.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/995/1/012042
• Aeon, B. and Aguinis, H., 2017. It’s about time: New perspectives and insights on
time management. Academy of management perspectives, 31(4), pp.309-330.
• Alsalem, W.S.Y., Alamodi, L.A., Hazazi, A.T.M., Shibah, A.M., Jabri, S.A. and
Albosruor, Z.A., 2017. The effect of time management on academic performance
among students of Jazan University. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital
Medicine, 69(8), pp.3042-3049.
• Jina Sinskey, M.D. and Denise Chang, M.D., Setting SMART Goals to Enhance
Your Personal Well-Being.
• Reeves, M. and Fuller, J., 2018. When SMART goals are not so smart. MIT Sloan
Management Review, 59(4), pp.1-5.