AVID 11 Time Management

1. Time ManagementTime Management

2. Time QuadrantsTime Quadrants
• Assignment due
tomorrow
• Homework
• School Work
• Pressing problems
• Crisis
• Assignment due soon
• Planning
• Building relationships
• Exercise
• Leisure activities
• Interruptions
• Some Calls
• Some text messages
• Email
• Some Meetings
• Popular activities
• Busy work
• Junk mail
• Some phone calls
• Some text messages
• Trivia
• Time wasters

3. To-do ListsTo-do Lists

4. Time Quadrants &Time Quadrants &
To-do ListsTo-do Lists

5. Ways to AvoidWays to Avoid
ProcrastinationProcrastination
• Set realistic goals
• Just start
• Do school work when your energy level is at its highest
• Break large tasks into smaller ones
• Work for realistic periods of time
• Avoid study marathons (like all-nighters)
• Create an effective place to do your school work
• Allow extra time for unexpected things
• Schedule time for yourself
• Do the most difficult tasks first (eat your veggies before
dessert)
• Reward yourself when you have finished tasks

6. Quadrant II is the KeyQuadrant II is the Key
• You have little control over quadrant I, but
full control of the other three.
• Eliminate or limit the activities in quadrants
III and IV
• Focus on quadrant II

7. With Your Table GroupWith Your Table Group
• Share out activities from your lives that
occupy each time quadrant
• List 5-8 activities in each quadrant on a
poster (as seen below)
• Be prepared to share
your group’s poster with
the class

8. On Your OwnOn Your Own