This week is the perfect storm. Apparently professors are very good at taking the number of weeks in a semester and dividing by three because they all decided this was the week. My projects, presentations, papers and exams won’t catch me off-guard though; I saw them coming thanks to some foresight (a calendar).
But, how do you make the best use of your time?
Determine your priorities
Sure, it sounds pretty straight-forward, you probably even know how what prioritizing means. The real question being: do you really practice it? It’s our nature to just do the easiest tasks first because it’s most rewarding. I admit it, we’ve become dependent on instant gratification. But, I
Nice idea. How do you make this list, though? Do you create yours in Excel? Word? Or just scribble it down on the back of some piece of paper sitting on your desk?
This week I put it on a sticky note and then put it right in the middle of my desk. Well, that, and I also made one on my blog. That helped, too. ;-)
Always classic stuff Devin.
It’s been a while since we’ve chatted. How is everything going?