Your Journal - Chapter 3

Reflect
1. Who's in Charge?
- current stengths and weaknesses with regard to managing time are you have to make sure that when you make a schedule, you stick to that schedule, if you forget to do one thing, you will mess up and be out of sync.  A weakness is you will not be able to do what you want to do because of your schedule.  You are going to yes to almost everything but you aren't going to be able to fulfull what you promised.  Your time management is important because it helps keep you on task.
- To address my weakness I will always have to keep looking at my watch so I can see what the time is and how I can complete my tasks in the certain amount of time I give myself.  I will also have to keep on track on what I am doing, I have to stay focus on the task at hand.

2. The 80-20 Principle in Your Academic Life
- I would say that the courses that I am taking, they apply to the 80-20 principle because about 20% of my work that I do for class are inside the classroom and the other 80% is done when I leave campus or when I go home.  I am doing most of the work outside the classroom then I am inside.  I am learning about it inside the classroom, but I am getting more out of it if I read the book.

Do
1. Change a Habit
- The bad habit that is hurting my ability to effectively manage time is watching tv.  Because when I get home I just go straight to room and see if there is a game on the tv.
- I will try to make it a habit to go to the library before and after school so that I can get my work done.  While at the library I will be able to accomplish what needs to be done.

2. Put Swiss Cheese into Action
- My biggest task for next week is for getting ready for a math quiz that happens every thursday.  I was able to get a lot of time to study for the quiz, since I don't have classes on Friday, I was able to study what I didn't know for the class.  When I took the quiz, I recieved a higher score on my test the week before.

Think Critically
1. Be More Precise
- Vague: I'm going to start getting to school on time.
Precise: I will start arriving to class on time.
- Vague: I plan to watch TV less and study more.
Precise: I planned to study more and watch TV less.
- Vague: I'm going to quit wasting time.
Precise: I will stop wasting time and finish the work that needs to be done.

2. Link Goals with Time Spent in Activities
- I do not do any activities that take up more than three hours a week.  When I am done with classes, I go straight home so I can do my homework.
- Since I am not doing any activities, I have more time to do my work and make sure that I can finish whatever needs to be done.
- Some reasons for participating in activities that are unrelated to your goals would be to have time to do other things, be able to experience something new and different.

Create
1. A New Kind of Cheese
Title of approach: Stay on Task to Pass your Class
Description of approach: Your have to stay on task and finish your work.  Do not goof off or else you will not pass the class.  You do your work, you will be able to accomplish what needs to be done.

2. Jump Starts
Some ideas to reduce procrastination would be to make sure that you are always focus.  If you are really into electronics you should turn off your cell phones so you can't text anyone and they can't text you back.  Turn off your televisions or else you could get distracted.  Make sure that when you are in a group make sure everyone is contributing or else it is not a group effort.  Making sure you stay on task will help succeed in the courses that you are taking.