2. Procrastination combined with a lack of time management can easily decrease your chances of success in college Time Management
3. Monitoring Your Time Exercise involves tracking how you spend your time over a period of seven days. Determine how you can free up 4 hours a week. Record all of your daily activities Track activities in fifteen minute intervals, for 24 hours, for 7 consecutive days. Use the Time Monitor Plan or Google Calendar
4. Time Monitor/Time Plan A Time Monitor/Time Plan is a useful tool to help you 1. Discover how you currently use your time 2. Plan how you want to spend your time. Gentaur, Gentaurmolecular1, Schedule, 2009, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schedule.jpg#file CC-BY-SA.
5. Time Monitor Every 2 to 3 hours record your activities. Be precise Resist the temptation to take shortcuts. Self-knowledge of how your time is spent is essential.
6. After monitoring your time for seven days, group all of your activities together by categories. Add the total amount of time spent in each category and record the totals in the “monitored” column. Grand total of all categories should equal 168 hours . Organize Data
7. Evaluate how you have spent your time over the seven days. Decidehow much time you would want to spend on various daily activities. Analyze Data & Time Plan
8. Determine how you can free up at least four additional hours per week for academic study and preparation. Enjoy the process and be realistic. Time Plan