Activity # 4 – Getting Support From Friends and Family
This one is simple but vital and powerful. Each day or as often as possible share the following with your “make it happen buddy” (or whatever you would like to call her or him) – your to do list for the day, your time use plan for the day, and how you did the day before with your time usage. On a daily basis communicate with each other, encourage each other each other and help each other build awesome task and time management habits. Send texts, e-mails, tweets, instant messages or whatever works. Just keep encouraging each other and hold each other accountable. Are you getting good at this? Let me (Greg Metz) know. I want you to mentor other students!
UCBA Resources
This is a web-based time utilization assessment chart that lets you enter for each day how you plan to use time and then subtracts the time you actually use from the 24 hours of time available in any day. It’s very cool and very useful! It includes study, sleep, recreation and lots of other stuff- even grooming. There are lots of other neat items on this site too.
http://www.studygs.net/schedule/weekly.htm
This is a 5 minute You Tube Video on overcoming the habit of procrastination through a simple 3-step method. I recommend taking the 5 minutes to watch it and implement the steps into your daily routine. Breaking down any task into smaller chunks and then getting started – even when you do not feel like it – is a powerful practice. So check this video out –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcx7Y4caQE
This is a You Tube video on alleviating stress. Yes – it’s very important to set and manage your goals, have a plan, have a daily to-do list, etc. But it is also important to do things that help relieve stress and to build such things into your routine. This is a 5 minute You Tube video on How to relieve stress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fL-pn80s-c&feature=youtu.be
APPS – If you are a smart phone user, we have no doubt that there are numerous free or inexpensive daily calendars and daily task lists that you can download and use. No doubt some are better than others. The vital thing is that you use something consistently so that you get into the habit of constantly being aware of and effectively managing your tasks and time throughout the day.