FSM100_Chapter 2_Time

2-4a Consider one set of values

Focusing attention means "being here now." Showing self-responsibility means being the victor rather than the victim. Having integrity means being someone that people can count on. Taking risks means being willing to change. Contributing means being a person who discovers the meaning of life in serving others.

2-9 Making time for school as an adult learner

Get to know other adult learners. Find common ground with traditional students. Review your subjects before you start classes. Delegate tasks. Enroll family and friends in your success.

2-5 Setting and achieving goals

Have potential as achievable goals. Make your goal as real as a finely tuned engine. Goals can be every bit as real and useful. Write down your goals. Write specific goals. Write goals in several time frames ( Long-term goals/Midterm goals/ Short-term goals). Write goals in several areas of life. Reflect on your goals. Move into action immediately.

2-15 Making time for health

You can become aware of current habits (discovery), choose new habits (intention), and take appropriate action.

2-3b Capture fast-breaking ideas with minimal interruption

Your mind can quiet down once it knows that a task has been captured in writing.

2-13* The 7-Step Antiprocrastination Plan

1 Make it meaningful. 2 Take it apart. 3 Write an Intention Statement. 4 Tell everyone. 5 Find a reward. 6 Settle it now. 7 Say no.

2-3f Align your activities with your passions--The Time Monitor/Time Plan

A Sample Time Monitor; Fill out Your Time Monitor; Group your Activities Together into Categories; List your Estimated Hours for Each Category of Activity; Reflect on the Results of This Exercise; Repeat this Exercise.

2-15c Choose to rest

A lack of rest can decrease your immunity to illness and impair your performance in school. Suggestions: Exercise daily; Avoid naps during the daytime; Avoid using alcohol to feel sleepy; Develop a sleep ritual; Use your bed for sleeping; Keep your sleeping room cool; Keep a regular schedule for going to sleep and waking up; Sleep in the same place each night; Practice relaxation techniques while lying in bed; Make tomorrow's to-do list before you go to sleep; Get up and study or do something else until you're tired; See a doctor if sleeplessness persists.

2-15e Choose emotional health

A little tension before a test, a presentation, or a date is normal. The problem comes when tension is persistent and extreme. That's when stress turns into distress. Steps toward freedom from distress: Protect your overall health; Make contact with the present moment; Don't believe everything you think; Solve problems; Stay active; Share what you're thinking and feeling; Ask for help.

2-11 Create a work flow that works: 4C

A work flow—an organized way of taking projects from start to finish. they usually include the following four habits. To aid your memory, each habit starts with the letter C: 4C

2-14d Questions that keep you focused

Ask: "What is one task I can accomplish toward achieving my goal?" Ask: "Am I being too hard on myself?" Ask: "Is this a piano?" (Ask yourself whether what you are doing needs to be perfect.) Ask: "Can I do just one more thing?" Ask: "Can I delegate this?" Ask: "How did I just waste time?" Ask: "Would I pay myself for what I'm doing right now?" Ask: "Could I find the time if I really wanted to?"Ask: "Am I willing to promise it?" (Promises can push you to exceed your expectations.)

2-6e Evaluate

At the end of the day, evaluate your performance. Look for A priorities you didn't complete. You can adjust these priorities before they become problems.

2-16d Buy less

Before you purchase an item, estimate how much time it will take to locate, assemble, use, repair, and maintain it.

2-11b 2. Choose

Choose what to do about each collected item: Delete it; Do it now; Defer the item.

2-8a* Deal with common challenges

Decrease the unknowns. Admit your feelings—whatever they are. Allow time for transition. Find and use resources. Take the initiative in meeting new people. Meet with your academic advisor (One person in particular—your academic advisor—can help you access resources and make the transition to higher education). Learn the language of higher education. Terms such as grade point average (GPA), prerequisite, accreditation, matriculation, tenure, and syllabus might be new to you.

2-8b Manage time with transition in mind

Devote study time to deep processing. Ease into it. Make time for class. Manage out-of-class time. Plan ahead. "Publish" your schedule. Enlist your employer's support.

2-13 Stop procrastination now

Discover the costs. Discover your procrastination style. Trick yourself into getting started. Let feelings follow action. Choose to work under pressure. Put yourself in control. Think ahead. Play with antiprocrastination apps.

2-6a Brainstorm tasks

Each task will become an item on a to-do list. Just list everything you want to accomplish on a sheet of paper or planning calendar or in a special notebook.

2-8 Making the transition to higher education

Entering higher education represents a major change in your life. Many of those differences call for new skills in managing time. Learn to manage time in ways that help you make a successful transition.

2-15b Choose to exercise

Exercise refreshes your body and your mind. Find simple ways to include more physical activity in your life. Stay active throughout the day. Adapt to your campus environment. Get active early.

2-3e Multitask with skill

If multitasking seems inevitable in certain situations, then do it as effectively as possible. Pair one activity that requires concentration with another activity that you can do almost automatically.

2-4b Translate your values into visible behaviors

It's about choosing how to spend your time while you're alive. It's extremely important that I make time for ... Then use your answers to set goals, schedule events, and write daily to-do lists. In any case, the ultimate time-management skill is defining your values and aligning your actions.

2-6d Cross off tasks

Keep your to-do list with you at all times. Cross off activities when you finish them, and add new ones when you think of them. C fever: Symptoms include the uncontrollable urge to drop that A task and begin crossing Cs off your to-do list.

2-8b* Avoid High-Tech Time Wasters

Limit your time on social networks. Save online activity for down times. Start your day as a student, not a consumer. Simplify email. Turn off notifications.

2-11d 4. Complete

Make informed, moment-to-moment choices about how to spend the time of your life. And you can actually get things done.

2-12 There's an app for that—using technology for time management

Making lists and using calendars: Calendar applications; List managers ( online to-do-list); More possibilities (online notes); What to consider before you choose (The goal is to actually get stuff done. Keep it simple, make it easy, and do what works).

2-3d Commit to "single tasking"

Multitasking is actually an option, not a requirement. You can still choose to do one thing at a time with full attention. Planning helps. Set a goal to keep your daily to-do list short. Even if you fail to achieve this goal, you'll benefit from the increased focus and practice at single tasking.

2-3 Make choices about multitasking

Multitasking is much harder than it looks. The solution is an old-fashioned one: Whenever possible, take life one task at a time. Focused attention.

2-8a Common challenges

New academic standards. A new level of independence. Differences in teaching styles. A larger playing field. More students and more diversity.

2-6 The ABC daily to-do list

One of the most effective ways to stay on track and actually get things done is to use a daily to-do list. When that task is written down, you don't have to rely on your memory.

2-6b Estimate time

Overestimating has two benefits: (1)It avoids a schedule that is too tight, missed deadlines, and the resulting feelings of frustration and failure; and (2)it allows time for the unexpected things that come up every day—the spontaneous to-dos. Add up the time needed to complete all your to-do items.

2-14c Getting focused

Pay attention to your attention. Agree with living mates about study time. Get off the phone. Learn to say no. Hang a "Do not disturb" sign on your door. Get ready the night before. Call ahead. Avoid noise distractions. Manage interruptions.

2-10 Break it down, get it done—using a long-term planner

Planning a day, a week, or a month ahead is a powerful practice. Find a long-term planner or make your own. Enter scheduled dates that extend into the future. Create a master assignment list. Include nonacademic events. Use your long-term planner to divide and conquer.

2-15d Choose freedom from sexually transmitted infection

See your family doctor or someone at the student health center to ask about getting screened for STIs. Don't share needles or other paraphernalia with drug users.

2-16a Focus on values

Simply write your life purpose—a sentence or short paragraph that describes what's most important to you. Keep this handy when scheduling your day and planning your week.

2-11c 3. Classify

Some of the things that you collect will not require any follow-up action. Use file folders for pieces of paper. Give each folder a name, and store the folders in alphabetical order. On your computer, create separate folders for each of your current classes and projects.

2-6f Tinker

Some people prefer the 80-20 system. This method is based on the idea that 80 percent of the value of any to-do list comes from only 20 percent of the tasks on that list. So on a to-do list of 10 items, find the 2 that will contribute most to your life today. Complete those tasks without fail. Use your to-do list in close connection with your calendar. Consider planning a whole week or even two weeks in advance.

2-16e Slow down

Sometimes it's useful to hurry. At other times, haste is a choice that serves no real purpose. Rushing might not be worth the added strain.

2-7 Planning sets you free

Stay on top of your assignments right from the start. As we focus on our most important activities, we are free to let go of everything else. We can actually end up doing less and being more effective at the same time. Planning is a self-creative venture that lasts for a lifetime: Schedule for flexibility and fun; Back up to a bigger picture; Look boldly for things to change; Look for what's missing—and what to maintain; Think even further into the future; Return to the present; Schedule fixed blocks of time first; Set clear starting and stopping times; Plan for changes in your workload; Involve others when appropriate; Start the day with your Most Important Task; Plan in a way that works for you.

2-14a Choosing your time

Study difficult (or boring) subjects first. Be aware of your best time of day. Use waiting time. Study two hours for every hour you're in class. Monitor how much time you spend online.

2-16h Forget about time

Take time away from time. Schedule downtime—a space in your day where you ignore to-do lists, appointments, and accomplishments. Strictly speaking, time cannot be managed. The minutes, hours, days, and years simply march ahead. What we can do is manage ourselves with respect to time. A few basic principles can help us do that as well as a truckload of cold-blooded techniques.

2-6c Rate each task by priority

The book How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein: Simply label each task A, B, or C.The As on your list are those things that are the most critical. The Bs on your list are important, but less so than the As. he Cs do not require immediate attention.

2-15a Choose your fuel

The official recommendations for eating well change from time to time. Nutrition is an evolving science, and new studies appear every year: Eat food; Mostly plants; Not too much;

2-16g Remember people

The pace of daily life can lead us to neglect the people we cherish.

2-15f Choose a responsible relationship with drugs

The ways to avoid addiction (technically called substance use disorder.) Use responsibly; Pay attention; Get help.

2-16 Beyond time management: Stay focused on what matters

Think beyond time management to the larger concept of planning: planning is about getting the important things done and still having time to be human. An effective planner is productive and relaxed at the same time.

2-2* Time management

Think of time management as time investment. According to Stephen R. Covey, the purpose of planning is to carve out space in your life for things that are not urgent, but are truly important. Don't wait for that time to come. Make the time. 1. Discover exactly what you want. 2. Know how to get what you want. 3. Follow up by doing what you intend to do.

2-1 Power Process: Be here now

To "be here now" means to do what you're doing when you're doing it. Be where you are when you're there. Students consistently report that focusing attention on the here and now is one of the most powerful tools in this book.

2-16f Handle it now

To handle a task or decision immediately. Then you don't have to add the task to your calendar or to-do list.

2-3a Unplug from technology

To reduce the temptation of multitasking, turn off distracting devices.

2-15g Use the power of small daily choices

Tom C. Rath, senior scientist at Gallup and author of Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes: Eating, Exercise, Substances, Emotional Health and Relationships, Sleep, Choosing Your Next Steps.

2-14b Choosing your place

Use a regular study area. Use a library.

2-11a 1. Collect

Use inboxes to collect: This frees up space in your mind to apply the Power Process: "Be here now" and focus on what you're doing in the present moment.

2-4 Define your values

Values are the things in life that you want for their own sake. They define who you want to be. They also guide your moment-by-moment choices about what to do and what to have. Values have little meaning unless they change our daily behavior. People often say that they live a values-based life—and then act in ways that contradict what they say. One way to take charge of your time and attention is to define your values and then carefully choose your actions.

2-16b Focus on outcomes

Visualizing a desired outcome can be as important as having a detailed action plan.

2-3c Handle interruptions with care

When this happens, note what you were doing when you were interrupted. For example, write down the number of the page you were reading or the name of the computer file you were creating. When you return to the task, your notes can help you get up to speed again.

2-16c Do less

When you add a new item to your calendar or to-do list, consider dropping a current one.

2-2 You've got the time

When you say you don't have enough time, you might really be saying that you are not spending the time you do have in the way that you want. Time is an equal opportunity resource. Everyone has exactly the same number of hours in a week.Time is an unusual commodity. It cannot be saved. And when you are out of it, you are out of it.

2-14 25 ways to get the most out of now

hey're listed in four categories: Choosing your time; Choosing your place; Getting focused; Questions that keep you focused.