Time Management. This is perhaps the one thing every college student will agree is the key to being successful; being able to figure out what to do during the 24 hours you are allotted each day. Time management seems to be an unattainable skill that everyone strives for, fails out and then goes through the mandatory "getting my life together" period before the cycle repeats.
Quite frankly I am terrible at time management but during the first month of this semester I have learned some things that hopefully will help me manage my time better from now one.
The first thing I learned was that the expression I don't have time is nothing more than an excuse. Saying "I don't have time" only means that whatever you are thinking of doing is not a priority for you and therefore you choose not to make the time for it. Anecdote time.
I once spent about ten minutes trying to convince my friend to come to one of my club's meetings with me someday but he turned down the offer because apparently, he did not have the time to do so. The funny thing was that when he found out about another club which he was more interested in, he made time not only to go to meetings for that club but also to table for that club at events. But according to him, he did not have the time for my club which meets for an hour twice a month...
Time is a gift that we have. Each new day is a blank slate to work with. Whatever we deem as important is going to get down and whatever we could not care less about we cannot force ourselves to do (ideally).
Moving on.
The second thing I have learned this semester is that if our time is managed properly, we can do truly amazing things. Once you take a look at how you are spending the 1,440 minutes you have each day you realize that you are probably wasting a lot of time doing nothing when you could be doing something you care about. It's about that time again...Anecdote time.
I once meet an absolutely amazing doctor who was a part of a panel for an event one of my clubs held. As this doctor described everything she has done since graduating medical school I swore that she either never slept or had 8 days in her week. Not only had she gone to cosmetology school, gotten married, had three kids and was currently enrolled in law school but she was also fresh off the red carpet for a show she acted in because oh yes she also went to acting school. She was practicing medicine and still doing all of that on the side. Not even, on multiple sides.
So even though I am still very bad at time management, I am making an effort this semester to get better at it because I can do whatever I hope and desire if I made the time for it. Let's see if I can make that work and boost my GPA this semester.
