Time Management - Overcoming Procrastination

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This lesson looks at a technique for overcoming procrastination and ensuring your students are focussing on tasks and events in order of priority.

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How often do you feel you have 'no time' to do things?

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Exploring what time management means, and how it could positively impact your studies (and even your mental health!)

To make it easy, think of your day as a jar, and the tasks and activities you would like to do as physical 'orbs' - with each orb representing one hour... However, this jar can only hold so many orbs. Realistically only 9 or 10.

So how do we prioritise what orbs have to go into the jar, which ones we should put in the jar, and which ones we would like to put in?

well, that is normally down to each persons individual demands, necessities, responsibilities and interests.

Let's explore some examples together.

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What would be some "must do" examples?

What would be some "probably should.." examples?

What would be some "would like to.." examples?

So now you have tried that - why not write out what your 'orbs' for the week would be, and split up a piece of paper into 7 sections, or 'jars'.

Use a highlighter to denote whether they are a must / should / like use of your time. (i.e. Maths class is highlighted red, because it is a 'must' - walking the dog is a 'should', so it's a yellow - whereas seeing my friends is a 'like' so I highlight it green)

Then organise the 7 days/jars, with a maximum of 10 orbs per jar.

1. Allocating all the "musts" (red in my example) first - they generally have a time and date where they have to happen.

2. Then assign your "should" pile to the spaces where it makes the most sense.

3. Finally, fit in the "like to's.." - you might not be able to fit them all in, which is OK! If you can get more "must" and "should" done in a day then you expected - put some greens into the gaps, or use that time to simply have nothing to do... your brain and body needs a break as much as it needs structure, and after finishing all your must/should tasks - you will have earned it!