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Time Management: Tips for Time Management

• Take a few days to monitor how you currently use your time and then decide where you can make realistic changes.
• Make attendance and arriving on time a priority.
• Make a daily "to-do" list and prioritize it. Always do high priority tasks first.
• Use your NAIT Students' Day Planner to schedule in all assignment and lab due dates, exam dates, appointments, and personal engagements.
• Use the Semester Timeline. Spare copies are available from Student Counselling.
• Organize your workspace.
• Do daily and weekly review.
• Spend your time studying what you don't know, not reviewing what you know well.
• Use your peak energy times for your most important/challenging tasks.
• Take breaks. Study a maximum of 50 minutes and then take a short break.
• Monitor and control television, computer and telephone time.
• Learn to say "NO".
• Organize your books, clothes and lunch the night before.
• Beware of being a perfectionist.
• Get into a regular routine for sleeping, eating and studying.
• Learn from the past. What could you improve from last week? Last semester?
• Learn to manage procrastination.
• Prepare ahead for peak times (e.g. exams).
• Ask for help if you need it.