Time Management Part 2

Im going to share some of the methods that I use to get my shit together. Sorry for the poor quality images, its late at home and therefore dark, but they serve their purpose in illustrating my examples.

By my door I have a calendar which has up coming events from day to day. I also have my to do lists, one for the week and one for the day. They way I learnt to do lists was from Randy Pausch. You divide the page in four quadrants, going across the page you have on the left what is urgent and on the right what is not urgent. Then going down the page you have you have importance, what is important up at the top of the page and what is less important at the bottom. You then proceed to work from top left to top right to bottom left to bottom right. You shouldn't be making to do lists as a single column working through tasks in the order you write them down.

I also have a white board to plan out tasks or projects that I am doing, currently at college I have the first assignment, bellow on the board I have written down each unit and the tasks that I have to complete for each. This is to just help me visualise and get my head round the task at hand.

Below is the timetable that I painstakingly put together. It is the default plan of each hour that I am awake while I am at this period of my life attending college. Unless I have something special, like planned time off, University visits or something more important that has priority, I know what I should be doing. Do I follow it to the line. No, its more there for guidance and I don't beat myself up too much for procrastinating. I have started something else now that is starting to minimise wasted time, but I will go more into that on a later post. The main thing I find is that you start the day as you mean to go on.

Love Jack.