Personally, my time management skills fluctuate. I am really well organized and I have a tendency to plan out my weeks really well, but I find myself still waiting for the last minute before doing my assignments. Technically, I am doing this a day early, but I would have rather had everything done much earlier in advance. This class is self-led for the most part, so I know I will need to be disciplined in my time management this semester. Last semester, I was the queen of making the most of every moment because I was enrolled in 18 hours while working full time, I had to carve out time in the day just to function, let alone find time to do laundry. This semester, however, I have already been a bit lazy. My biggest challenge this semester will certainly be a discipline like I said, everyone loves to procrastinate. I really enjoyed reading The Important Habit of Just Starting because, for me, half the battle is just getting the motivation to begin the work, completion is the easy part for me. Of course, I understand the intent of the article, but I was less of a fan of The Myth of "Too Busy", although it had a great overall message, I found it less useful to my personal life. Overall, the best tip for me staying on track is just simply maintain a planner. It is such an easy tool to achieve a great outcome, that is the only way I find myself able to keep up.
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I agree that time management is key to being able to manage a busy workload. With this course being online, it becomes our responsibility to finish assignments on time since there isn't a physical meeting time to help remind us. However, since it is entirely online, we are also able to create our own unique schedules for the course, allowing us to fine tune our schedules to better manage our precious time. Time management also helps us combat procrastination by enabling us to set aside specific times to finish out tasks, instead of deferring them to a later date.
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