Time Log Reflective Essay

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This class has helped me in many ways to become more effective as a person. There are many activities and discussions we have done in our class that helped us become successful as a person, but the most important discussion and/or activity that helped me become more effective as a person is a time log. In addition, time management is one of the most important life skills an individual can learn. As many of us know the time log is a valuable tool for evaluating how to use your time effectively. The reason I said time log has helped me become more effective as a person is because from this activity I was not only able to learn how to manage my time, but also it helped me to stay focused more on significant things like doing all the assignments on time, without wasting my time on social media things, and it also …show more content…
This example has taught me never to procrastinate for anything, after learning the lesson I thought I should make a time schedule with all the assignments due dates which will be a better way for me to manage my time. It is very important not to procrastinate because if we do then, we tend to perform poorly and there can be a lot of information that will be left out if we decided to do everything on last minute. Therefore, we will not be able to ask any questions at the last minute since we will be rushing through everything to finish on time. Many times procrastination tends to lead to less effort and poor performance in a case where our peers will often give us negative

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