Prepared by: Secretariat of Culture & Arts (SETA), College Representative Council (MPK), Ten Colleges, Session 2020/2021, UPM

Prepared on: 1 February 2021

Do you always feel overwhelmed by the demands of a lot of work? More days, more and more tasks until you feel you do not have time to preparing the tasks? This means you need to improve the way your daily time management. The trick is to organize the tasks and use your time effectively so that more things you can solve every day. Hereby, you are able to reduce the rate of stress or stress faced at once increase your productivity at home or at university. The time management techniques you use are very important. Hence, it takes little time to form in the long run. Importantly, you have to find the way or technique that best suits you in your busyness face. For starters, here are 3 easy ways to improve your technique time management to increase self-productivity rates.

Before starting your day, list the tasks that require attention immediately. Less important tasks can take up your limited time because you often use energy in excess of the need for such tasks because it is often easier and less stressful to complete. However, identify the more important tasks that are necessary solved every day is important because it contributes to daily productivity. This is because, after knowing where you should channel your daily energy, you will prepare your daily affairs according to effective rules for yourself and your daily schedule.Simply, complete more important tasks first able to increase your level of focus. You are also encouraged to use an increasingly popular ‘pomodoro’ technique to keep your focus in complete an assignment.

In addition, you are also encouraged to bring a ‘planner’ or notebook at all times and do not forget to list all types of tasks and work that come in thoughts in the notebook. This technique can really provide motivation to complete the assignments one by one. The trick is to make a ‘to-do’ list list ’before starting your day according to priorities and interests. Make sure too that you are able to complete the task. If there is a larger task to be completed in a longer period of time, make it your only assignment in the list. The rest, you can do the next day. For have better time management techniques, you may be interested in trying divides these 3 types of task lists such as homework, university assignments and personal assignments.

Once you have an assignment, set a realistic deadline for you follow. This is important to help you keep track of the assignments and deadlines to be placed in your workspace. This will give you visual cues for make sure you always do your homework. It is better if the date the end of each assignment is set a few days before the actual date the assignment is necessary sent so you can complete other tasks that may be assigned on a regular basis out of the blue. Challenge yourself to complete assignments before the deadline and later reward yourself for successfully achieving your goals in time which is short and limited.

In conclusion, when you are clear about what you need to do, you will be more focus and be able to complete more tasks in less time. Good time management requires skills to prioritize tasks and organize it in a way that can save time. Use the strategy above for a few weeks and see if the strategy helps you. You might surprised how much time you have if you manage time with preferably.

Date of Input: 16/02/2021 | Updated: 16/02/2021 | rahiza