Thursday, December 17, 2009

Lecture: Time management

Our individual learning plan is a contract outlining which courses are necessary to graduate in our desired major. Three things about our ILP: ILP is the minimum required to graduate. It is the specific classes for graduation, and 15 units per semester is average.
To be sure you stick to your ILP it is best to have strong Time Management Skills!

Dr. Taos daily time management schedule:

Daily:
Show up early every day: 8:45
Check mail, filter the important stuff, read only, don't respond. maximum time: 15 minutes.
5 minutes: review daily schedule

Weekly:

6 pm sunday: jog to Carmel Mission.
Seven to Eight PM eat dinner while watching 60 minutes and "dancing with the stars"
They show "Old peoples" commercials!

8 to 10 pm every sunday night: plan the week

Plan to spend 10 to 15 percent of yor time Planning!
Every new years, spend a week reviewing last years unfinished goals and reschedule them into new year, - or drop them.
Put all repeating events in your calendar.
Set goal to allocate time resources, allocate time to set goals, your PDA becomes your boss!

Our professor is suggesting we take up time management practices which involve mapping every minute of every day with productive activity! No unstructured time. While I can see the value in this it feels alien and scary. I am accustomed to lots of unstructured time.

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