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2 The 4 Elements of Time Management Find out more tips on time management at 1

3 Finding Time To Get The Work Done If your daily schedule is already full and you want to add in study, it means something has to come out of the schedule in order to fit study in. The question is: what should you take out? 1. Your Specific Priorities: Activity Socialising What is the specific activity? What days and times do you do it? Sport Hobbies TV Jobs 2

4 Creating a Study Timetable The keys to creating a study timetable are: E.g.: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Sleep in until 12:00pm School Revision Lunch with Sport friends 1:30-4:30 1:00-3:00 Revision Work Football Facebook Dance Class 4:00 6:00 5:00-6:00 Cinema Guitar 5:00-5:30 7:30 8:30 Coaching 5:00-7:00 5:00-6:00 Revision X-Box Revision Revision 8:00-10:00 Game of Thrones 8:30 9:30 Social Make study timetable for next week 9:00-10:00 7:00-12:00 Get time management tips from presenters 3

5 Getting The Most Important Work Done Kind of Work Zone of Demand Results However: Kind of Work Zone of Marks Results Prioritise the tasks & fit the around them. 2 tips for non-required tasks: 1. Your goal is to do 2. A non-required task should be Find out the best big rock tips from 400 past students 4

6 Tips JUMBO s TIP: Consistency. Your biggest challenge is going to be finding one hour a night. Finding one hour each night to fit in work isn t a particularly hard task but the problem is that it is easier not to do it than it is to do it. Here are my four tips for consistency. 1 Achieve balance, keep doing the things you love and fit the study around it. If you are balanced, you ll be happy and productive and you won t feel like you are sacrificing too much. 2 Focus on the reward not the task. Remember that balance will only take you so far. There are times when you are going to have to sit down and do the work. There will be times when you need to be selfdisciplined. The easiest way I found to get myself to work was to focus on the reward, that is, focus on what I wanted to do when I finished the year. The upside of the reward usually dwarfed the boredom of having to do an hour s work and I would usually manage to get the work done. 3 Remember it is only one year of your life. One of the best tips I was ever given was to remember that it is only one year of your life there is light at the end of the tunnel. I am now 21 and I have never looked back on Year 13 and said, What if I had gone to Boris party? but I know that if I hadn t got into the course I wanted, I would have definitely looked back on the year and said, What if? 4 The sacrifices aren t that great. Remember at the end of the day the sacrifices aren t that massive. Most of the top students are out partying and doing all the things everyone else is doing. Sure there may be times when you need to miss an event to get work done but at the end of the day it doesn t happen that often. Get tips from presenters like Jumbo on 5

7 Reduce the Amount of Work You Do Step 1 TECHNIQUE Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Join in an online study group with 30,000 other students on and become efficient times 4! 6

8 Get the Work Done REASONS FOR PROCRASTINATION Procrastination Reason 1: Solution: Procrastination Reason 2: Solution: Procrastination Reason 3: Solution: Hear more about how students avoided procrastination. Watch our Video Link interviews on 7

9 Elevate your week Subject Activity Day, Date, Time Find your Online Planner at 8

10 Elevate your week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Find your Online Planner at 9

11 Where to From Here? The most important thing now is to actually use this information! Keep this booklet and use it as a guideline for the rest of the year. Don t try to do everything that was covered in this seminar tonight, start by picking three things you are going to put into practice in the next week. The three most important things I will implement first from this seminar: The next step You will receive a student implementation guide following this seminar containing follow-up tasks and activities. For year round tips from our presenters follow us on You also now have access to Elevate s student website which contains tips, practice questions and a forum to ask our presenters questions. Go to Username: Password:

Workbook Time Management

Often Sometimes Rarely Workbook Time Management Aims: establish how you use your time explore barriers to being effective help you to manage you time more effectively. Activity 1: Fill in the personal