Top Ten Awesome Tips on How Best To Manage Your Time As A Student

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Top tips for time management for students

College years are always associated with an intense flux of events: it's time to be active, multitasking as a superhero, making a dozen friends in a day and studying almost the whole lecture notes in one night.

Being young and courageous certainly, has its advantages. Students can do thousands of things in one day, so I came up with a list of techniques to help you work more efficiently and achieve more.

1). Follow a big picture

Create an annual calendar to schedule the peaks and downturns of your workloads. Homework is not something you can do all in a day, but what is good is that you most times know when the big tasks are scheduled and may distribute your workload accordingly.

For greater accuracy, therefore, break this great annual plan on a monthly and weekly basis. But do not forget to change your plans when there is an unexpected change in the performance of the week/month. Of course, stick with the plan even if it is difficult, but it does not mean that you cannot improvise or set priorities. This is a good way to do it.

2). Put it in writing

Believe me when I say you do not look like your grandmother when you write your plan: things to buy, people to talk to, reference books, for project management ... It is important to organize your time and put it on paper. The trick is that when you write things, it helps you to prioritize your tasks automatically (you would definitely not be using  a pen to write on something trivial) and you can see when you take too much load, by so doing, you are able to see what you have to urgently do and those you have to put for later.

3). Make it One day = one project

How do you feel when you open a work plan and see 10 different subjects, tests, and projects to complete? You feel stressed, Right? Your heart is racing, your mind can not understand where to start, the brain automatically seeks distraction: A clear and definite distraction that is easy to accomplish and quick to perform. This distraction could be to sit down to write an email, eat some ice cream, and watch TV - anything but real study.

Whenever you have big plans, try to separate those plans into different days and focus on one or two (maximum three) assignments in one day. By so doing you would not feel stressed having to do so many things at once, the brain can focus on a subject, and eventually see clear finished results instead of so many half-finished ones.

4). Prioritize and review

Once you have the final list of things that must be done, list them down and prioritize them according to various criteria:

• It takes little time to fully complete (must be first);
• It requires a lot of effort or you need to start from scratch (to go in the second place);
• The revisions and rewrites (must be in the past).

When you're ready for your next study, evaluate your previous progress make sure to finish the once you didn’t complete from previous day and those ones you know can be completed in less than 10% of the time of day’s study or draw conclusions as to what should be done differently from now so that you can complete the task in the allotted time.

5). Study in short sessions

The number of things present scholars need to learn is amazing. And if you stay buried in the subject for hours, you risk losing interest and leaving out the other classes. Have you ever wondered why even the simplest test and fastest always ends up being written last? 

Parkinson’s law states a person will take as much time to complete a task as he or she is given. This means that three hours or ten days their productivity may be the same as if he had just one hour to complete the task.

You have to come up with a schedule where you perform the task 70-80-90% in 45 minutes - with a limited period of time, increase productivity and distribute the forces between all classes.

6). Practice discipline and reward yourself

In the process of mastering the art of time management, you ensure you develop discipline and let go of unnecessary things like Facebook or friend phone calls. However, small distractions can be really helpful to refresh your mind.

The popular Pomodoro Technique encourages you to work in a way without stopping at all for a while (suggested time around 25 minutes) completing a tangible part of the assignment: write a page, read a paragraph, etc. Then you can allow yourself to write a brief text message or make a short phone call during a 5-minute break. After three or four of these work cycles, you can now go on a longer break.

7). Clean your workspace

As silly as it sounds, it is difficult to focus to be in a messy environment. Each sheet of paper on the table is an unfinished piece that tells on you mentally. Unnecessary things can distract you, you nervous about all the tasks you have not done or have to work on in next week.

Keep your workspace organized and the same will happen with your mind and logic that allows you to be more focused and productive. And if you take the time to surround yourself with beautiful lighting, green plants and a comfortable chair will be the most fun to work with.

8). Try to Discover your hidden potential

Learning about time management is not just about managing your time, but also on the good management of your energy. Unlike time, your body, spirit, mind and emotions can provide endless results and produce four times the results you are used to getting.

Spending time in the open helps to feed your body, extracurricular reading to excite your mind and do not neglect to do the things that motivate your mood - all this will enable you to recharge your batteries and work hard.

9). Learn to say No

You have to learn to say No, note that there are so many interesting things and offers you will get. The world is full of extracurricular activities, additional projects to get extra credits, the additional study material, not to now talk about endless parties, and gatherings of friends.

Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day so you must learn to reject offers that are not on your immediate priority at the moment. For example, if you have 10 pages to write tonight, and someone invites you to an interesting Ph.D. discussion- Sure, go ahead if you can sleep less than five hours and still be functional. But do not feel guilty to say no sometimes and do the work that is really important to improve your grade. Being a responsible student does not mean doing all the extra work.

10). Get rid of time wasters

Being a student means having a rich social life that extends well beyond the parties or evening in a bar with friends. You have hundreds of people on Facebook you follow, you stop to hear a new joke during breaks, you stays after school to relax and unwind, spend hours checking YouTube news and messages. All this takes time, which of course you can avoid to relax and enjoy, but how much of all these is enough and when to stop?

Calculate the value of every hour in your life. You can do this in several ways:

1. How much would you earn working on a part time? Say $8 to $9 per hour?
2. How much would you possibly give up to enjoy sleep an hour longer in the morning? For me it can be around 10-15 dollars.
3. How much would you possibly pay for an essay if you do not have enough time to write the essay yourself? In my experience, it can vary from $ 7.50 per page.

So next time you decide the waste a precious one hour on  YouTube or having unimportant chat with a friend, always remember and tell yourself this would cost $9 and go back to doing what makes your life useful and more meaningful.

Make sure that 75% of your time is devoted to enriching activities: work, acquire new knowledge, sleep and take good care of your body, do things that you are very passionate about.

If every student was able to dominate his time as a professional, I do not think that schools, teachers and campus buildings would be able to handle all that extra energy that would be released. This is something we are trying to achieve, guys.

Time management is a crucial skill necessary for life and for career advancement. The sooner you master it the better it is for your progress. And there's no better time to learn all these other than when you are in your 20s and when you are in college. So go ahead and practice, and practice, and practice.

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