Scheduling Time

A. Plan Ahead

•   Write down one or two goals in each area of your academic work. 

•    With those goals in mind, determine when, how, and whether you       can accomplish them during this time period.

•    Recognize that there are things that you can and cannot control.

B. Make a Weekly Schedule

•  Start with a blank weekly schedule broken into hour-long or 30-minute blocks.

•  Include everything you need to do on a given day.

•  Test your schedule out for a week and pay attention to how often you deviate.

•   Create a schedule for the next week that makes appropriate adjustments to support more reasonable expectations.

C. Set Daily Goals

• Using your Weekly Schedule, decide what you will do during the blocks of time you have mapped out.

• Make the tasks on your to-do list achievable goals for the day.

• If there are things that you did not get done, take a moment to evaluate those items and to reflect.

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