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W. Edwards Deming The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Scott Peck Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Denis Waitley Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry David Thoreau You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Smiles Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Richards Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proverb Lost time is never found again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ovid Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Build coping skills to withstand life's challenges
Your coping skills are your ability to handle life's challenges in the most effective ways, maximizing your chances of success or survival, and minimizing the damages and other negative consequences.
There is a virtually unlimited spectrum of difficult, or even potentially devastating, situations that life could hit you with, sooner or later. It may be a serious illness or chronic pain, an abusive relationship, divorce, big financial loss, burnout, business or career failure, a child with ADHD or autism, and so on. It could be a one time blow, like a loss of loved one, or it could be something that stays a big challenge for many years, even for life, without giving you much of break. Will you be lost and destroyed under stress or will you have strong enough coping skills to stay in control and do the best that can be done? Will you have the resiliency to come out stronger than you ever were? While some of the coping skills and strategies (or rather tactics) are specific to the type of challenges you are facing, the most important of those skills are fairly universal. Your ability to cope well and stay in control depends most on your strengths in the following two areas: your actions, your emotions. Fortunately, there are certain skills and coping strategies you can build or improve that could make you much stronger in each of those areas. Your actionsNearly in every challenging situation there is a number of specific actions you could do to reach a successful resolution or to ease the pain and minimize damages. Your effectiveness in that will mainly be determined by your thinking skills and abilities. For example, if there is no reasonable alternative in sight then you need to unlock your creativity to think laterally and brainstorm some options. If there are too many options and difficult trade-offs then you need your judgment and your decision making skills to select the best course of action. Finally, you most likely have only limited time and resources to realize that course. Hence you depend on good planning and time management skills to develop and execute a good plan.
Maybe you were content with your level of such thinking and coping skills in quiet times. But now there is a complication. When faced with outstanding challenges you are often in situations of high emotional arousal, under stress. And, as you may have already realized, high emotional arousal can significantly distort our thinking, and very often not to our advantage. How do you deal with that?
A good line of defense is to learn and use more systematic thinking strategies. Think on paper, as much as possible. Learn to think on paper ("paper" could be a text file on your computer). Instead of agonizing or letting your mind race, take a deep breath and jot down your main thoughts. Brainstorm on paper. Follow a sequence of systematic decision making steps, on paper. Go as far as you can with that (even if your switch to pure intuition in the end). The more you practice that, the more robust and uncluttered your thinking will be. Finally, for situations when you need to make quick decisions on the fly, your intuition is probably your best guide, if you learn to tell apart its voice from the noises of the stressful moments (You can strengthen this ability in the course of working on your emotional intelligence skills).
Your Emotions: Understanding how to adequately handle your emotions, your emotional intelligence, is an absolutely critical aspect of coping skills. Emotions are essentially messages from your inner brain to your consciousness. Those messages use a different language than your thoughts, the language of physical sensations in your body. That language is more powerful, direct, and efficient than thoughts in communicating certain types of information that are critical for your survival.
Your emotions can carry valuable clues for finding solutions and navigating through the most difficult problems you may face, if you learn to read them properly. However, like any concentrated power, emotions can turn highly destructive if mishandled.
There are two main ways how your emotions can work as destructive power against you. First, they can cloud or totally block your thinking, decision making, and creative abilities. Those abilities that you may need most to resolve the threatening situation. They can paralyze your actions. Instead of being keenly aware of your emotions of the moment and accepting them as nothing more as messengers you could fall into the trap of letting them overwhelm you and take full control of your thoughts and actions.
The second destructive force, which is a longer-term effect, comes from emotions that were somehow suppressed, that were not accepted, felt fully in your body or released. Those emotions pile up with time, like unhandled mail, somewhere in the background, underneath your mind. They become toxic waste that keeps draining your energy, narrows your thinking, makes you apathic or drives you to self-destruction. That emotional baggage can hold you back in life and take a heavy toll on your health.
How do you prevent your emotions from turning into your enemy? One of the main strategies is to work on developing your emotional intelligence. Your level of emotional intelligence is not something you are just born with. You can systematically build it, but it takes some time and work.
The first necessary step on that path is gaining a good knowledge base on that topic, mainly through reading. In the process, you can use your growing base for identifying and critically reassessing your beliefs about emotions and your relationship with them. There is much more to it than may seem on the surface.
To survive well and stay healthy in the longer term, you also need a good way to regularly release your accumulated baggage of suppressed or unexpressed emotions. This is an essential component of your coping skills. There is a number of ways to do thid. For some people it is journaling, when you use writing to let out your feelings. For some it is prayer or meditation. There are also special techniques, such as the Sedona Method. Like for other coping skills, you need to work out what works best for you, through trial and observation. Growing your emotional intelligence will help you on that front as well.
Source taken from: http://www.time-management-guide.com/coping-skills.html
Survey Findings
      
Homework peiod
Why we choose Homework period as our solution to the problem? - It is the most convenient among the other solutions to work on.
- From the general survey findings, which is conducted online, we found out that 47.2% of the students disgree that they always have enough time to complete their homework. Hence, allocating a homework period in the timetable is helpful to them.
- The project is within the school compound.
- We can monitor the situation easily.
- It is easier to get feedback from students.
- It is the best solution for our problem.
How Does Homework period benefit Tkgians? - They will have more time to do their homework.
- They will not have any excuse to not hand in their work on time.
- They can have more time to spend on revision.
- They can spend more time with their family.
- They need not bring so much books home.
Rock, Pebble, Sand Time Management
By Tristan Loo
This fundamental concept of time management is far from being new and nothing about this is unique to my teachings, but it’s an important basic concept of time management that needs to be discussed here on this website. I first saw this done at a conference put on by the Franklin Covey Corporation, led by Stephen Covey.
Stephen Covey’s Demonstration
Covey had a table set up upon which there was an empty glass jar and three other jars: one containing large rocks, one containing small pebbles, and the last one containing sand. He then stated that the big rocks represented our most important activities. The pebbles represented our less meaningful activities and the sand represented the activates that waste the most time. He stated that most of us focus our attention on the small things in life and so he dumped the pebbles into the jar. He then asked a person to come up to the stand and fill the empty glass container with all three materials. The secretary that was up there put into the jar the pebbles first and then the sand and tried unsuccessfully to put the large rocks in the glass jar, but they would not fit.
After some general guidance from Covey and a fresh set of supplies, the secretary put the big rocks into the empty jar first and then the pebbles and finally the sand and all three materials fit inside the jar. In fact, in another similar demonstration, the facilitator took it another step and put a jar of water into the container after the sand was poured.
What Does This Demonstration Mean?
I’ll outline what each of the materials used in the demonstration represents in your life:
Empty glass jar: The glass jar in the demonstration is the amount of time available in a typical work week. Now remember that no matter how powerful, famous, rich, or insignificant any of us are, we all have the same sized jars, hence we all have the same amount of time in a given week to get things done. I think that one of the things that we tend to forget is that we have a finite amount of time to work with. By visualizing our time as an empty container, it can help us better understand and more importantly, better fill that container with the things that matter the most.
Large rocks: Now the large rocks represent those activities that matter most in our lives and that have the most profound consequences, either good or bad, that result from their completion or non-completion.
Pebbles: The pebbles are the little tasks that might add up to be something significant, but if we miss one or two, no big deal.
Sand: The sand represents all the non-essential things that tend to fill up our days and our lives. Sand in this demonstration represents wasteful, non-value-producing activities that fill up our jar and prevent us from fitting in the large rocks that are meaningful for our lives.
Water: If we were to add the water to this demonstration, then that could represent the amount of time we spend sleeping.
The 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 rule, also known as Pareto’s Principle, states that 80% of your given results come from only 20% of your actions. Across the board, you will find that the 80/20 principle is pretty much right on with most things in your life. For this website, 80% of the web traffic that visits this website comes from only 20% of all the inbound links to this site. In the case of the rock, pebble, sand demonstration, your biggest rocks are the big players that produce the most results in your life. The pebbles, while they might add up to be a lot, do not amount to very much individually.
Now for the greater majority of people who can’t seem to get things done, or who are always complaining that they do not have enough time, it really comes down to analyzing where you are spending your time on. Are you focusing in on the 80% of activities that produce 20% of the results in your life, or are you spending your time with the 20% of activities that result in 80% of your results. In most cases, you will find that people spend their time with the pebbles in their lives and ignore the larger rocks that are truly important.
From Theory to Practice
The purpose of the rock, pebble, sand demonstration is to teach people how to structure their given week to maximize efficiency. It’s a top-down model of time management that I’ve adopted myself and that works very well at going from a large view of your life purpose, down to the upcoming week and the actions that need to be taken to reach those goals.
Review your values: Before you begin to schedule your week, take time to review and update if necessary all your values and your life purpose. This reminds you who you are and what you stand for and more importantly, what your mission is in life.
Select your goals: Select the goals that you wish to work on this week and break those goals into the “big rocks” that you will place onto your schedule to get done. Remember that your goals need to be congruent with your values in order for them to possess any meaning.
Schedule external events: On your day planner, you need to schedule all the commitments, meetings, appointments and obligations that you have no control over. This will help you navigate your other priorities around those blocks of time.
Schedule “YOU” time: Your biggest rock is of course time to yourself so that you stay healthy and vibrant for the week. If you don’t schedule time for yourself, then by default, I can almost guarantee that you will be left out of the jar when everything else is put in.
Insert your big rocks: Now after doing those things, you want to block off time enough to get those big rocks out of the way. Either make those big rocks a top priority, or if it is a multi-day process, then block off chunks of time by making a no-interruption appointment with yourself.
Let the pebbles fill the gaps: With your big rocks in place, you can fit those smaller activities into your jar to fill up the gaps. Realize that some of those pebbles might not fit in to your given week, but since they are small pebbles and not the big rocks, you can afford to allow them to carry over to the next week.
By using this technique, you can maximize the efficiency that you have each week.
Copyright © Tristan Loo. All rights reserved.
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Bonnie Prudden You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Iacocca If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laertius Diogenes Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jorge Luis Borges Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Billings Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis E. Boone I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Randolph Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Orben Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcia Wieder When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free. http://www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com/getquote.html?startrow=11&categoryid=59
Quotes weekly
Motivational and Inspirational Quotes about "Time Management"Marcia Wieder : It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unknown Author : Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M. Scott Peck : Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unknown Author : Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sara Paddison : Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doc Childre and Howard Martin : You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Tracy : Your greatest resource is your time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Henry David Thoreau : You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Samuel Smiles : Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jack Simplot : When the time is right, you just got to do it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com/getquote.html?startrow=1&categoryid=59
Time management comics
Time Management Comics....read and enjoy!   Source taken from:"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing Your time(Third Edition)" By Jeff Davidson
Time Management Quotes
Helpful Time Management QuotesThis time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.- William Morris Hunt Don't wait. The time will never be just right.- Napoleon Hill All great achievements require time.- Maya Angelou The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.- Bertrand Russell All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.- Victor Hugo The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Time and the hour run through the roughest day.- William Shakespeare It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.- Winston Churchill The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.- Sydney J. Harris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thoughtful Time Management QuotesTime stays, we go.- H. L. Mencken When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.- Abraham Lincoln For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.- John F. Kennedy By the time we've made it, we've had it.- Malcolm Forbes Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.- William Penn Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.- James Taylor Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humorous Time Management QuotesThe only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.- Albert Einstein In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.- Mark Twain Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.- James Cash Penney Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.- Will Rogers I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.- Steven Wright Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.- Charles M. Schulz Source taken from: http://www.timemanagementhelp.com/quotes.htm
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CAUSES
1. Starting the day without an action plan.
The most important thing in time management is doing things right and not doing it fast.
The latter just results in not achieving anything. It is best to have a specific goal for the day.
What do you want to accomplish? How will you go about accomplishing those things?
Begin doing when the day begins so you can attain your tasks by the end of the day.
2. No stability in life.
It is said that life is comprised of seven important areas.
These are family, health, intellectual, financial, professional, social and spiritual.
As a student, you cannot spend equal amounts of time to all these things.
There may be some areas where you need to focus more on a certain day and other areas for a different day.
All these areas are related to each other.
One cannot work properly without being dependent on some.
That is why you need to balance your time in these different areas to be more stable and at peace.
It may seem difficult initially to adjust your time in all the areas of your life.
But you can attend to all areas if you plan your time properly.
3. Untidy and chaotic study area.
Ever noticed that when there are a lot of things around you, you get distracted easily?
Not only you lose your concentration and your mind starts drifting away from work, you lose the enthusiasm and feel sad about studying.
Compare this to a clean and arranged area. You will not feel buried among the mess and you can focus on the task at hand.
This is the same reason that office workers are effective.
You do not see any mess lying around their work station much.
They maintain a clean and cluster free environment so it will be easy to move around without any distractions.
This same principle should be applied to your study area.
4. Not enough sleep.
According to studies, almost 75% of most students are constantly complaining of being tired easily.
Some even get tired even before the day is finished.
It is not that they lack any sleep.
A few are even disciplined enough to get the 8-10 hours sleep that is needed.
What is lacking in them is quantity and quality sleep.
5. Procrastination
Students tend to procrastinate their work.
One example: Students tend to wait for the “right” mood or the “right” time to tackle the important task at hand.
This is downright a waste of time, it is just an exuse for that they are yearning to procrastinate.
However, the big task isn't going to go away – truly important tasks rarely do.
Furthermore, in the end, they have to rush through their work at the eleventh hour.
EFFECTS
Rushing through homeworks
Poor quality of work
Burning midnight oil
No time for yourself and your family.
Affecting your studies
Time management tip 1: Learn to say No
Some people engage in so many activities and overload themselves that they wind up not enjoying them as much and feeling overburdened by them. Because of guilt, concern for what others think of us, or a real desire to engage in that activity, we have a hard time saying ‘no’. In this case, finding out where we will be able to get the most value is important. We should focus on tasks that fulfill this principle first before moving on to the next, less rewarding activity.
Time management tip 2: Prioritizing
– You know what is the most important task to complete from the "to do" list you made.
Try to prioritize the activities you want to achieve.
Similar to daily "to-do" list, you can also make a list of goals you want to achieve in life.
Put your most important goal in life on top of your priority and your least important goals to down below on the list.
Now, adjust your planner so that your activities match with your goals.
It is also important that you should be realistic on your list, try to base your list on what you need to achieve and not on what you want to achieve.
If you have a long-term priority, it is probably best that you put it on the bottom of your list; you can always work on that tomorrow.
Time management tip 3: Evaluate tasks once
Many of us open our mail, read through it, and set it aside to act on later. For example, if you receive a questionnaire from some graduate student doing research on stress, your usual tendency is to put the questionnaire aside and fill it out later. However, that is a waste of time. If you pick it up later, you will have to, once again, familiarize yourself with the task. As much as possible, look things over only once. That means, when you first pick it up, be prepared to complete working on it then.
Time management tip 4: Delegate, delegate
When possible, get others to do those things that need to be done, but that do not need your personal attention. Conversely, avoid taking on chores that others try to delegate to you. A word of caution: this advice does not mean that you use other people to do work you should be doing, or that you do not help out others when they ask. You should just be more discriminating regarding delegation of activities. Do not hesitate to seek help when you are short on time and overloaded. Help others only when they really need it and you have the time available.
Time management tip 5: Make a schedule
Allot enough time to do each task on your priority list, according to importance. If a certain activity needs to be done at a certain time frame, then list it first on your schedule and work the less important tasks around it. Make sure you stick to this schedule you created.
Time management tip 6:Set goals everyday
– Before you sleep, list down all the things you want to accomplish on the next day.
This will help you to know what you are going to do and avoid doing unimportant tasks.
With a “to do” list, you will get everything done more efficiently and faster.
Time Management tip 7:Use your spare time –
You may not notice it but you have lots of spare time as a high school student.
Try to add up the minutes of the school bus ride to school and the school bus ride back home.
You can use these times to study and do your homework.
By doing this, you will get an idea on what you need to do on your homework when you get home.
This allows you to finish your homework faster and have extra time for other things.
Time Management tip 8: Finding the right time
– Students have the “right time” to study. Students have specific time to study more efficiently.
For example, you solved your math problems well on afternoons; do not wait until nighttime to it, then.
When your mood shifts immediately start solving math problems as much as you can before you lose interest.
Time Management tip 9:Taking notes –
Writing down important notes is an effective way to study.
It is much better than just plain reading.
Writing down notes has an effect on your mind.
You can understand the topic more effectively and memorize it more effectively than by just reading.
Time Management tip 10:Get enough sleep –
Trying to stress yourself out studying when you are supposed to be sleeping can bring ineffective results and unwelcome health problems.
If you need to sleep you have to sleep, do not force yourself to study if you cannot effectively study.
If you try to study in this situation, you will most likely waste your time.
Time Management tip 11:Get it over!
If you are putting something off because you just don't want to do it, and you really can't delegate the work to someone else, you need to find ways of motivating yourself to get moving. The following approaches can be helpful here:
Make up your own rewards. For example, promise yourself a piece of tasty flapjack at lunchtime if you've completed a certain task.
Ask someone else to check up on you. Peer pressure works! This is the principle behind slimming and other self-help groups, and it is widely recognized as a highly effective approach.
Identify the unpleasant consequences of NOT doing the task such as the punishment of not doing homework, etc.
Though, if you find the project overwhelming, this may be helpful:
Break the project into a set of smaller, more manageable tasks. You may find it helpful to create an action plan.
Start with some quick, small tasks if you can, even if these aren't the logical first actions. You'll feel that you're achieving things, and so perhaps the whole project won't be so overwhelming after all.
In this way, you may not find it that overwhelming.
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Above tips should assist you in improving your time management skills and make your journey through school life more enjoyable.
Keep faith in yourself and your abilities to meet your goals.
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