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Time to Manage.By Chandler Warrick (an obsessive compulsive type-A student with too many projects to complete and too little time)
“Time flies when you’re having fun.”
...or when you’re a full-time college student with a maximum number of academic hours and the intention of graduating on time without the help of seemingly incompetent advisors (who you are paying way too much for little to no help) as well as a full-time job and three small dogs to feed.
(And a desire to occasionally sleep)
The Ironic problem with Time Management
It takes time to plan out proper project management.
But we don’t have a lot of time to waste, so I’m going to make it simple.
Acknowledge a task and get it done.
“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law”
― Douglas R. Hofstadteri.e don’t procrastinate
It seems simple, but don’t underestimate the power of writing a task down.
● Put a task on paper / in software (something we’ll talk about later). ● Add a due date and ensure completion by said date. ● Consider the overall difficulty and priority of a task - how long will it take?● Identify your biggest task - something you really don’t want to start…
...then finish it first.
Eat your frog.
“...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”
― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
it’s not as gross as you think.
Reward yourself for getting something done.
● Incentive is more powerful than you think.● This can be as large or as small as necessary. ● Give yourself some reason to complete a task besides the
potential end goal.
Let’s start with the
To-Do ListAsana
Team-based
Trello
Flexible
Also team-based option
Todoist
Great overall design
Tags, labels, language parsing
Wunderlist
Flexible
Nearly all features are free
Then there’s
Time ManagementPomodone
Syncs with Todoist
Utilizes the pomodoro technique
Pomello
Syncs with Trello
Plugin for chrome
Toggl
Allows creation of various projects
Timer on phones, computers, etc.
Web Blockers
Lock yourself out of distracting websites (e.g. Facebook, Reddit)
Various options for any browser