http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/tm/tm5.htm

The increase-decrease method will help you to make better use of your existing time. We only have 168 hours in a week. Just because you decided to go to school does not mean that anyone is going to give you any more time to do this!

Your text suggests that you may have to reduce the number of hours doing chores! ( See page 54 - Too little time for family or friends - #3)

Here are two things that I have discovered:

1. God made the beds to air out in the daytime!! Some of you guys may already know this, but as a Mom I always felt guilty if the beds weren't made before I went to school! Now that I know that God made them to air out, I don't have to feel guilty anymore!

2. I learned that when companies train vacuum cleaner salesmen they teach them to determine the customer's DTL (dirt tolerance level). Mine is definitely 1/4 inch on the floor and visible dust on the piano. My husbands is 2 to 3 inches of newspaper on the floor and they don't get moved as long as there is still available floor space! He just walks on them!

During school I have my SDTL = school dirt tolerance level. This includes leaving the dishes in the sink overnight. Vacuuming only the traffic areas. Washing the clothes and bedsheets only when the laundry basket is full.

Of course, I don't have trouble with the last category - Too much leisure time. Do you?

The 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Written Goals!

http://www.topachievement.com/goalsetting2.html

Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals

http://www.topachievement.com/smart.html

To see what goal setting means in terms of college students read the excellent handout Have you set your goals? at York University in Canada.

http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/tm/tm2.htm

Meanwhile, to get more information visit the Circadian site to see what they say about your Biological Clock.
http://www.circadian.com/biologicalclock.htm

For those of you on shift work or wanting to be nurses, read the review of Understanding Circadian rhythms: A holistic approach to nurses and shift work.
http://www.wholenurse.com/review3.htm

Read What is your time perspective? to see how importance and urgency as well as effectiveness and efficiency effect our time management.

http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/tm/tm3.htm

When planning your study time, you need to take into account that most college courses expect 2 hours of homework for every hour of class! (note: I recommend that you have a term long calendar posted on your wall, where you can see the whole term and all the long term projects and test dates. For quick forms, ready for you to use that correlate with the textbook, see Quick Forms. Choose the format that you want by the word processor that you use. REMEMBER WHAT directory that you use, so you can find the file again.
http://www.hmco.com)

To see what Canadian students are doing visit Time Management for University Students: What sort of planning is involved? , which gives examples of monthly calendars weekly objective list, weekly planner and time log. Although these are standard time management tools, this site has used them in the context of studying in college.

http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/tm/tm4.htm

Time is finite. We all have the same amount - 168 hours a week. And we will not get any more. So maybe what we should be looking at isn't time management so much as task management. So when you are tackling difficult assignments, see Making a Tasklist at http://www.uoguelph.ca/csrc/learning/tasklist.htm

The purpose of a task list or a "to do" list is

1. to identify what needs to be done

2. to prioritize the most important items

You should identify

which are the A items = important and urgent

which are the B items = important

which are the C items = neither important nor urgent

Within the A items, number the ones that you must do first. Carry this list around with you and check them off as they are completed. The A's may be the hardest to do. Don't ignore them. Do them in little pieces. But get them done.

To see another perspective on this, see the Time Management handout at the University of NY, Buffalo. This handout begins with "There's no such thing as time management!" at

http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/studytime.shtml

Are you always in a crisis? Check out Time Management vs. Crisis Management at
http://www.successatschool.com/stminfo1.html

http://www.yorku.ca/admin/cdc/lsp/tm/tm6.htm

The Importance of a Schedule from the students at Columbia University in New York. Here's a site for all the free spirits, who don't want to do time management!
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/schedule.html

Time Scheduling from Virginia Tech
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/htimesch.html

Time Management Principles from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_man_princ.html