5.5: Chapter 5 Summary
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Identify your life roles.
Prioritize tasks in each of your life roles.
Realize we cannot accomplish everything all at once.
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
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.”