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LEARNING TO LEARN: BECOMING A SELF -GROWER 113
“If you don’t have a plan for yourself, you’ll be part of someone else’s.”
—American proverb
REFLECTION
In this experience, you will have the opportunity to reflect on the way you use and manage time and to
begin to commit yourself to increased productivity through planning and scheduling as well as logging
planned and actual efforts.
P URPOSE
The goal of this experience is to help you learn to increase the effectiveness of planning, the use of time,
and the productivity of the time used. The golden rule of productivity is to spend 10% of the time planning
and prioritizing, 85% of the time following the plan (effectively using your time), and finally 5% of the
time to assess the performance so that the next performance can be improved. Learning to use time in this
way will provide both short-term and long-term productive growth and increased achievements.
O BJECTIVES
1. Become conscious of how time can be planned effectively each day as part of an academic term.
2. Become more productive with the use of each hour that has been scheduled.
3. Assess effectiveness of the use of time through comparing plan with performance.
D ISCOVERY E XERCISE
1. Break down your last 168 hours (1 week = 7 days @ 24 hours each) into the list of activities below,
listing how you spent your time.
Assessing time
Assignments for after classes
Classes
Commuting time
Contingencies
Eating
Exams readiness time
Family time
Friendship time
Hygiene
Planning time
Preparation for classes
Projects for each class
Recreation
Relaxation
Sleep
Trips
Work
2. Locate each of your selected activities in the Time Management Matrix (available in the Reading).
3. Answer the Exploration Questions.
R EADINGS
Timing is Everything
Setting Goals