My New Year's Resolution starts today! For the next year, I will carefully track and record the usage of my time. As a working college student with a family, my life is full of responsibilities. When I do not carefully manage my time, my obligations quickly pile up, stressing me to the breaking point. The quality of my work suffers. My quality of life suffers. My family suffers. In this chaotic state, I vow to never fall behind again. Yet two weeks later, there I am struggling to keep afloat in the flood of procrastinated responsibilities I created. The solution is simple; I need to stop putting off for tomorrow what needed to be done yesterday. Every night before bed, I will account to myself, in perfect honesty, what I accomplished during the day. Hopefully this accountability will lead to spending more time on meaningful activities and less time on things of no worth.
Just be careful with those long-term projects. I think most struggle to account for diligent work on those.
ReplyDeleteSomething that helped me manage my time and avoid feeling like I am a complete failure is by using an hours tracking app that I used to clock in and out for different activities. I used it for work, obviously, but I also used it to monitor how much time I spend doing school work. It helped me realize that I really am spending a lot more time doing things than I thought.
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