Time Strategies

When it comes to time management, check lists have always been my best friend.  In both articles that I read- "Four Questions to Help you Stop Procrastinating" and "The Important Habit of Just Starting", they talked about key qualities in helping one be successful when it comes to getting things done. Back to what I was saying about checklists, whenever I am feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things I need to do, I tend to fall victim to not being able to do any of it or as one the articles called it "paralyzed".  Because I feel the stress of all the things I need to do, I find myself not knowing where to start and therefore just ignoring all of it.  As you can tell, this is not a good approach.  However, whenever I feel this way if I make a checklist with all the things I need to do in order of importance, I am almost always able to knock them all out rather quickly.  For me, being able to visualize what I need to do and see that maybe there's actually not as much to do as I thought is always a breakthrough. The four questions in the article about procrastinating were much like questions that I ask myself when I am writing a checklist, and the Important Habit of Just Starting had a really great point about the pain of actually working on something is usually much less than the pain of stressing about not doing it.  So that being said, my main time management strategy would be checklists! They can be as vague as possible or scheduled even down to the time that I'm going to do them depending on the situation.  Moving forward this semester I am going to continue to apply this strategy and work even more on "just starting". 

"To Do List"