- Helps you evaluate your progress. If you know you have
to read an average of 75 pages a week to keep up in your
business management class, and you’ve only read 60 pages
this week, you don’t need a calculator to figure out that you
are slightly behind. And it’s easy enough to schedule a little
more time to read next week so you can catch up. - Helps you see the big picture. Effective time management
provides you with a bird’s-eye view of the semester. Instead
of being caught off guard when the busy times come, you will
be able to plan ahead—weeksahead—when you have big tests
or assignments due in more than one class. - Helps you see the bigger picture. Planning ahead and
plotting your course early allows you to see how classes fit
with your overall school career. - Helps you learn how to study smarter, not harder. It may
well be possible that you will besoorganized, soprioritized, so
in control of your time, that you can spend lesstime studying,
get bettergrades, and have moretime for other things—
extracurricular activities, hobbies, whatever.
Time management is notmagic, though it can appearmagical.
There May Not Be Enough
Time for Everything
When I asked one busy student if she wished she had more time,
she joked, “I’m gladthere are only 24 hours in a day. Any more and
I wouldn’t have an excuse for not getting everything done!”
Let me give you the good news: There isa way that you can accom-
plish more in less time. And it doesn’ttake more effort. You canplan
ahead and make conscious choices about how your time will be spent
and how much time you will spend on each task. You canhave more
control over your time, rather than always running out of it.
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