Time Wasters and 24-Hour Rule

Hi, girls! How is your weekend? Hope you liked the sunny day today!( Yesterday was so bad, so cold!)

For this week, I chose to use Time Wasters and 24-hour Rule. Actually, they are both strategies for saving time and make sure finishing assignments before due dates. I applied them in all of my courses.

Let me talk about TIME WASTERS first. I always complain that I have so little time to do so much homework. I wish I could have 30 hours a day. But everybody has 24 hours everyday, some people can use their time well, they can do much more things than what I can do in one day. So I used Time Wasters. Here is my chart.

I listed 6 "thieves" who steals my time all the day. Since I am a visual learner, I use one color for one reason. From the chart, I can clearly see that Internet chat tools and Interruptions are the "biggest thieves" for my time. I almost waste 2 hours everyday on them. Social life is amazing, but at the same time, it wastes me a lot of time. As a result, I have to sacrifice my sleeping time for homework. I FIND THAT ALL THE TIME-WASTE CAUSES ARE ALL BECAUSE I AM ATTRACTED BY OTHER STUFFS INSTEAD OF HOMEWORK, SO I WASTE A LOT OF TIME!

In order to find some ways to solve my time-waste problem, I figure out some solutions for helping myself.

So in general, I choose to keep myself from any kinds of interruptions when I want to study. I turn off my wifi search on my computer, I set my phone in silent model and put it in my drawer. I study in quiet places and I always spend friends after I finish my homework.

It is really worked for me to save time. I can go to bed every day before 12 right now and I have energy for my morning classes.

TO BE HONEST, SAVING TIME IS A METHOD OF SELF-CONTROL. If you want to save time, if you do not want to be disturbed, you will find some ways to save your time when you do your home.

Now I will talk about my 24-HOUR RULE. I made a new chart about what should I finish everyday.

I have three columns, one for Due Dates, my plans before and my plan nowadays. I found that because I tried to pretend the due days one day ahead, I was pressed for time. But amazingly, I could do more by obeying my new plan. Sometimes it is not that we do not have enough time for finishing, it is because we always want to work on them on the last time right before due time.

But by using 24-Hours Rule, I can finish my assignments one day earlier than usual and even have some time to proof them again.

I love using these two strategies. They all help me by push me save time during daily life. I split my assignment into 2-3 days. I have enough time think about my assignment more in detail in order to improve the quality of my assignments. But anyway, self-control is of importance in saving time. If I do not have the desire for saving time, so no matter what kind of good strategy I use, it will never be work.