This document discusses stress management and time management for students. It makes several key points: - Poor time management can lead to stress as students have less structured time in college compared to high school. Managing time effectively is important for success. - Stress is the body's response to demands placed on it and can be caused by many factors, including lack of time management. Too much stress can negatively impact health, but some stress can improve performance. - Effective time management includes planning, setting priorities and goals, avoiding procrastination, and using tools like planners and schedules. It is important to regularly evaluate time management habits.

1. STRESS
MANAGEMENT
Prof. Syed Amin Tabish
FRCP (London), FRCP (Edin.), MD, FAMS

2. Time for change
• Many students discover the need to
develop their time management skills
when they arrive at college
• Unlike high school where teachers
frequently structured your
assignments and classes filled your
day, in college, you will have less inclass time, more outside of class
work, and a great deal of freedom
and flexibility

3. Why Time Management is
Important
• "The Time Famine"
•Bad time
management =
stress

4. STRESS
• Every person constantly strives to
reach and maintain a level of
equilibrium
• As this equilibrium level is disturbed by
environmental and internal strain, the
likelihood of disease increases
• Each person has a level of stress
tolerance
• When this level is exceeded the person
breaks down

5. Stress
• Stress is an adaptive
response mediated by
individual differences
&/or psychological
processes and an event
that places excessive
demands on person

6. Stress
• Stress is never a result of one single
cause
It is created by factirs like:
• Pressure at work
• Too many social commitments
• An uncomfortable working environ
• Lack of effective time management
• Disturbed family life

7. How much stress
• Moderate amount of stress is
GOOD and can improve one’s
performance, efficiency &
productivity
• But too much of it may
generate disabling emotions
leading to anxiety, tension,
difficulty in thinking clearly

8. Stress Factors
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Unrealistic expectations of self
Lack of organization
Poor time management
Feeling of inadequacy
Low self esteem
Financial problems
Family demands
Marriage
Competitiveness
Frustration

9. Stress
• Interpersonal
• Job related

10. Stress
Classification of Individuals:
TYPE A Behaviour
• High probability of Heart attack
• High degree of drive & ambition
• Extremely competitive
• Aggressive
• TYPE B
• High level of patience
• Takes time to enjoy
• works at more leisurely pace

11. Stress Symptoms
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General irritability
Palpitations
High BP
Depression/hyper-excitation
Dryness of mouth
Emotional istability
Urge to cry or run and hide
Inability to concentrate
Prone to accidents

12. Coping with Stress
• Physical Exercise
• Sensitivity Training (T-Groups):
individuals are brought together
and placed in an environment in
which they are permitted to pour
out frustrations, anxieties and
fears freely
• Executive sabbatical
• Relaxation

13. Relaxation
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Meditation
Prayer
Yoga
Spiritual activities
Biofeedback
A Quiet environment

14. Managing Your Time
• Managing your time
successfully implies
accomplishing what is most
important for you
• When you don’t accomplish
what you truly want , you
may feel confused,
compromised, and frustrated

15. Goals/Priorities/Plann
ing
Drucker's Dictum:
Doing things right is
not as important as
doing the right things.

16. Questions to always
ask
• Why am I doing this?
• What is the goal?
• How will I succeed?
• What happens if I
chose not to do it?

17. Inspiration
•"If you can dream it,
you can do it"
-- Walt Disney
• Disneyland was built in
366 days

18. Planning is Important
•Failing to plan is
planning to fail
•Plan Each Day
•Plan Each Week
•Plan Each Semester

19. Everyone has Good and Bad Times
• Find your
creative/thinking time.
Defend it ruthlessly,
spend it alone
• Find your dead time:
Schedule meetings,
phone calls, and
mundane stuff during it.

20. Advantages of Time
Management
• gain time
• motivates and initiates
• reduces avoidance
• promotes review
• eliminates cramming
• reduces anxiety

21. Advantages of Time
Management
• You need to manage time
effectively if you’re going to
be successful.
Better time management
skills can:
• improve your grades
• help you keep stress in
check

22. Planning Tools
• A Monthly Planner
• A Weekly Objectives
List
• A Weekly Planner
• A Time Log

24. How much time is
enough?
• The time you spend on task has
some relationship to the quality of
work you end up producing
• A good gauge to follow is to
perform 2-3 hours of College work
outside class for every hour of
class time
• For a full-time student with a 15
hour of class per week load the
recommendation is to do between
30 and 45 hours of homework each

25. Procrastination
• According to O’Brien (2002)
up to 40% of university
students experience
procrastination as a problem
• Taraban (1999) reported that
students do most of the work
near academic deadlines and
failed to make appropriate
use earlier in the term.

26. HOW COME I NEVER HAVE ENOUGH
TIME?
• Do you have trouble finding
enough time to study?
• Do you frequently find
yourself rushing to places,
missing deadlines, feeling
you have insufficient time
for relaxation and personal
relationships, or having a
general sense of being
overwhelmed?

27. How come !
• Do you realize that you
probably have as many as
168 hours(7 D x 24 H) of
available time each week?
• If you go to bed at
midnight and wake up at
8:00 a.m., you are
sleeping 56 hours a week,
leaving 112 waking hours.

28. HOW COME I NEVER HAVE ENOUGH
TIME?
• Combine those 30 hours with two
hours a day for eating and
personal care, and
• You still has 68 hours of
available time a week.
• Even if you study 30 hours a
week, you still have a
considerable amount of time
left----38 hours--for other
activities!

29. Principles of Using Time Effectively
• The first is efficiency, the most
output for the least input.
Students:
• who plan
• use their study schedule
efficiently
• avoid wasting time
• are able to get their work done
with the minimum amount of time

30. The TM Cycle

32. Steps to Improved Time Management
• Create a semester
schedule
• Assess and plan your
work load each week
• Adjust your plan each
day
• Evaluate your schedule

33. Reading and Study
Time
Read in three steps:
• In the first step, survey the
material by reading the titles,
sub-titles, bold print, italics,
definitions, topic sentences,
summaries, and conclusions.
• This will provide you with an
overview of the chapter, give
you direction, and help you to
see the details in relation to the
whole.

34. Second Step
• Form questions out of
the titles and sub-titles
using the Six Keys to
Reading -- who, what,
why, when, where,
and how; then read to
select what you want to
learn.

35. Third Step
• Review the material
you have selected or
marked for learning in
order to assimilate it.

36. Study Time II
• Spend half your reading and study
time in reproducing
• Mere reading is mere impression
• In an hour of study the individual
who spends half of the time trying to
write, say, or think about what he or
she has read will be able to
reproduce twice as many ideas as
the individual who spends all of the
time in passive reading of the
material in that book

37. Study Time III
• After you have read your book,
close it, and then attempt to
recall what you have read,
review to fill in any gaps in
your knowledge or to find the
right words to express the
ideas, re-test yourself and
review again.
• The cycle is read and recite,
read and recite, read and recite
until you feel confident in your
knowledge

38. Review when forgetting is
greatest
The greatest amount of forgetting
usually occurs within the first 24
hours after study
• Notes taken today or material read
today should be reviewed that
same day
• If the material is in outline form,
underlined, probably only ten
percent of the total assignment
need be reviewed.
• This should normally take 15
minutes for each subject