Successful Time Management

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My life is filled with activities and events constantly, and sometimes I find it challenging to balance all of my extra-curricular activities with my school life. One of the largest problems is that I am often lazy and procrastinate when it comes to doing schoolwork. This ends up causing me a great deal of stress, as I resort to staying up until unreasonable hours of night to complete my homework. My problem with this was not only that I wasn’t getting enough sleep, but I also missed out on free time. In addition, the homework I was struggling to complete was not even an extreme amount, it was just that I neglected to manage my time and complete the homework before doing other activities. I was driven to change. To solve this problem, I set out to make a change in my daily routine. I wanted to change my bad habits and lethargy in order to become more organized and be less stressed. To do this, I implemented several new processes.
Time management and effective planning are skills that are incredibly important in life, yet many people lack them. Fortunately for me, this meant that there was a wealth of information on how to become better at it. As I sifted through the masses of information, I found a few articles that were incredibly helpful and provided great insight on the topic.
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The article listed several ways to improve upon time-management skills, as well as new skills to develop. One that was interesting to me was that “a better was to stay organized and take control of your own projects is to use a to-do list to write things down” (NHS 1). To improve my time management, I knew that I would also have to improve my general organization skills. This seemed like a perfect place to start, so I took this idea and put it into my process by pledging to write all of my homework in a planner. Although it is not exactly what the source said, it was not extremely different, and had the same

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