Time Strategies

Pink Hour Glass and Retro Clock
Source: Pxhere

This semester so far has been very hard to manage my time (not that I have been very good at in the past) and it is mainly because I have started working in my first job since ever. Having a job is taking a lot of my time, this is also my senior year so I have many future activities and things that need to get done. The first article I read was 11 Ways Unsuccessful People Mismanage Their Time by Áine Cain and I can relate to many of the unsuccessful ways that were mentioned before. Some of them were juggling too much and procrastinate. I often keep putting things off and then suddenly they all pile up and I am running crazy trying to do everything at once. Another thing they mentioned was not scheduling fun time, I had never actually thought of doing that before but it sounds like a good idea and I feel like it can help me with easily getting distracted (another bad habit article mentioned).  The next article I read was How to Beat Procrastination by Caroline Webb because as a pro-procrastinator myself I really want to work on that. The advice they give like scheduling, visualizing your success, pre-commit pubicly, list the cons of procrastinating and more all sound helpful and some I have tried and actually work. For example scheduling, I found that I was doing it wrong before I would use a phone app but that didn't really help me. When I saw the app wasn't helping me keep on track I decided to use the good old planner, writing things down and physically seeing it every day has helped me a lot. I also have been trying to give myself, earlier deadlines because I tend to procrastinate until the last day of the deadline. I will be going back to this article to try more of their methods this semester and in the continuing future.