Time to Manage | How to Manage Your Time Instead of Letting it Managing You

Time to Manage.By Chandler Warrick (an obsessive compulsive type-A student with too many projects to complete and too little time)

“Time flies when you’re having fun.”

...or when you’re a full-time college student with a maximum number of academic hours and the intention of graduating on time without the help of seemingly incompetent advisors (who you are paying way too much for little to no help) as well as a full-time job and three small dogs to feed.

(And a desire to occasionally sleep)

The Ironic problem with Time Management

It takes time to plan out proper project management.

But we don’t have a lot of time to waste, so I’m going to make it simple.

The Philosophybreaking project management down to a science

Acknowledge a task and get it done.

“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law”

― Douglas R. Hofstadteri.e don’t procrastinate

It seems simple, but don’t underestimate the power of writing a task down.

● Put a task on paper / in software (something we’ll talk about later). ● Add a due date and ensure completion by said date. ● Consider the overall difficulty and priority of a task - how long will it take?● Identify your biggest task - something you really don’t want to start…

...then finish it first.

Eat your frog.

“...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

it’s not as gross as you think.

Reward yourself for getting something done.

● Incentive is more powerful than you think.● This can be as large or as small as necessary. ● Give yourself some reason to complete a task besides the

potential end goal.

Software Solutions(because we’re all New Media majors, and who doesn’t love a good app?)

Let’s start with the

To-Do ListAsana

Team-based

Trello

Flexible

Also team-based option

Todoist

Great overall design

Tags, labels, language parsing

Wunderlist

Flexible

Nearly all features are free

Then there’s

Time ManagementPomodone

Syncs with Todoist

Utilizes the pomodoro technique

Pomello

Syncs with Trello

Plugin for chrome

Toggl

Allows creation of various projects

Timer on phones, computers, etc.

Web Blockers

Lock yourself out of distracting websites (e.g. Facebook, Reddit)

Various options for any browser

Put it on paperpaper is the new smartphone

● Make a bullet journal*● Buy a planner● Use sticky notes● Read a book on GTD● Utilize scanner applications for

hybrid paper / digital to-dos (e.g. Evernote, Google Keep)

*http://bulletjournal.com/