Tuesday 24 October 2017

To be a great student, you need to be a great student of time management

a post by Darren A Smith for the OUP Blog


Hourglass clock time by stevepb via Pixabay

You might be brilliant. An exceptional student. But if you can’t get your paper in on-time, revise ahead of the exam, or juggle a busy student & home life, then no-one will ever know how you brilliant you are. Time management is the skill that unlocks everything else. If you want to get more done you need to be a great student of time management skills, because this is the key that can open every door.

Why Time Management Courses Don’t Work is a great book by Fergus O’Connell. Fergus shares with us that time is constant. 365.2 days and 52 weeks in a year, and seconds that just tick by. We cannot ‘manage time’. The only thing we can do is to make better choices. And to make better choices we need a time management system. Be it a great or a poor system, you managed to get up, get dressed, get to a lecture, and juggle a million things in your life. You just don’t achieve all that you want to. Luckily there’s help…

Continue reading to find the help

Still calling it *time* management? It really isn’t. It’s *me* management.


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