Time Management

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Time Management

• Controlling your life and Times

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• What is time?
• Can you give me a definition?
• Lets try to find a definition.

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• Lets see what a number of scientists and
  philosophers say about
• TIME

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For what is TIME?

Who is able easily and briefly to explain it?...
Surely we understand well enough when we speak of
it. What then is time? If nobody asks me I
know but if I were desirous to explain it to
someone-------------------- Plainly I know
not Saint Augustine
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Time Management

• To love life is to love time.
• Time is the stuff life is made of.
• Benjamin Franklin

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SIR ISAAC NEWTON, TIME IS ABSOLUTE, IT OCCURRS
WHETHER THE UNIVERSE IS HERE OR NOT.
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Albert Einstein, Events are the substance of
TIME
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TIME is

• ..A continuum in which events succeed one another
  from past through present to future.

Noah Webster, Websters Dictionary
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When we say Time Management
Exactly what is it that we are managing?
Can we really manage Time?
What can we control?
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• The basic element of time is..
• AN EVENT

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• The key to managing TIME is
• EVENT CONTROL

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If you fail to Control the Events in your life,
They will control You!!
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• Time is Finite-You Already have all the time that
  will be allotted to you.
• Birth--------------------------DEATH
• What you do with that time is up to you!

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In College
PLANNING IS THE KEY TO CONTROL
No one plans to FAIL They just fail to PLAN
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The Time Management Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
Not Important Important
Adapted from Steven Coveys- 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
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The Time Management Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
Not Important Important
Adapted from Steven Coveys- 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
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The Time Management Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
Not Important Important
Adapted from Steven Coveys- 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People
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Review-Time Management

• Time is a difficult concept to define
• Time management is event control
• Planning is the key to control
• The only time you can exercise any control over
  is right now!
• Quadrant II Activities give you the most
  independence and Control
• WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE
  ???????

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• In College you will be asked to do many jobs,
  often by different instructors or supervisors who
  do not know the other work that you are doing. It
  is up to you to organize all your tasks so you
  can complete them by the deadlines given to you.
  You may also like to have some time to "have a
  life."

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Links and resources

• http//www.usd.edu/trio/tut/time/evtime.html
• Covey, S. R. (1989) The 7 habits of highly
  effective people. Simon Schuster New York.