How to Achieve Productivity?
As someone who has to make a “checklist” before starting work, I always thought to have had established good time management skills. It is not until the week of my first set of midterms that I come to the realization that I need to make changes to my “checklist” in order to increase my productivity.
This is when I read Sandra Lin’s blog post discussing on time organization which refreshed my memories of Stephen Covey’s “Important” and “Urgent” chart. It allowed me to apply knowledge learnt in class to improve productivity in my everyday life.
Below is the updated version of my checklist that ensures productivity
- Assignments and projects: important and urgent, must be done before the due date.
- Reviews, pre-readings: important but not urgent, efficiently utilize time in half an hour or one-hour breaks.
- Work and clubs: important but not urgent, reserve time slots for these activities
- Socialize and networking: important but not urgent, meet up with friends at lunch time and connect with others through participating in club activities
- Healthy lifestyle: important but not urgent, combines with socializing by working out with friends
- Social Media: not important and not urgent (depending on different cases), set up regular times every day to check
Works Cited:
Boss, Jeff. “Nine Ways To Jump-Start Your Life.” Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014. Web. 4 Oct. 2014. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffboss/2014/10/01/9-ways-to-kick-life-in-the-you-know-what/>.
Lin, Sandra. “Blog Post #4 – Organization.” Sandra Lins Blog. 4 Oct. 2014. Web. 4 Oct. 2014. <https://blogs.ubc.ca/sandralin/2014/10/04/blog-post-4-organization/>.
“How to Apply Stephen Covey Time Management Method for Outlook Productivity – TaskCracker.” TaskCracker RSS. 16 Oct. 2013. Web. 4 Oct. 2014. <http://www.taskcracker.com/stephen-covey-time-management-method-outlook-productivity/>.
I like how you listed 6 different examples of situations and categorized them by importance and urgency. If only I could put away my “not important and urgent” cellphone and start maintaining my “important but not urgent” healthy lifestyle!
Since the first time I studied with you in Koerner I’ve always known you to be a top-notch, organized student. This was a great extension to my post – looking forward to seeing more from writing you 🙂