Elizabeth's Time Strategies

I am a very busy gal, and time management has always been an important skill for me to have. My planner is very crucial to my academic and social success. I am a huge list maker. I make them digitally on my home screen, verbally to my roommates as well as written down in my planner.

I am glad that I set up this class to where I have stuff due throughout the week rather than just on Sunday. In the past, if something wasn't due till Sunday it would fall down on my priority list and I would be overwhelmed with the amount of work I had to do Sunday night, which is already a busy day for me because I work at a church. I am looking forward to this semester.

I enjoyed reading 3 Steps to Recapture Time by Joynicole Martinez. My days are always more productive when I start me day off praying and making a list of the most important things to get done each day. I usually just make one big list, so I am looking forward to trying the "Chunk it" method that she suggested to be more efficient. Her Rule #2 was fitting for today, because the lesson I taught this morning way about pruning your vine, and getting ride of the negative and discouraging parts of our lives just as labors do at vineyards. I plan on focusing on that step in the future. Rule #3 is probably my hardest, and I need to get better at saying "no". Going into my senior year, I do not want to be as busy all the time. I told myself that I have to start saying "no" to people and tasks in order to have room to say yes to other things. It has been hard, but I am anxious and eager to work on that this year. 

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