3.5: Chapter Summary
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Chapter Summary
Show Up
- Identify your life roles.
- Prioritize tasks in each of your life roles.
- Realize we cannot accomplish everything all at once.
Work Hard
- Use Steven Covey’s Quadrant II Time Management System to organize demands on your time into the following quadrants:
- Important and Urgent (I)
- Important and Not Urgent (II)
- Not Important and Urgent (III)
- Not Important and Not Urgent (IV)
- Use self-management tools to spend most of your time in Quadrant II. Examples include:
- to-do list
- weekly planner
- monthly calendar
- semester calendar/term schedule
- smartphone apps
Ask for Help
- Realize we cannot manage time; we can manage only ourselves and how we use the time we’re given.
- Communicate our priorities to important people in our lives.
- Avoid procrastination by using the SMART strategies of “start small, manage your expectations, ask for help, reorder and time trick.”