Time is the most important resource Time Management is both an art & science

1. TIME MANAGEMENT
Prof. Syed Amin Tabish
FRCP (London), FRCP (Edin.), FACP,
MBBS, FAMS, MD HA (AIIMS)
Doctorate in Educational Leadership (USA)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of
Bristol (UK)

3. • Surah Al-Asr «
Quran Time is witness
that, surely,
mankind suffers
loss, except for
those of faith,
Who do good, and
become a model
of truthful living,
and together
practice patience
and constancy.

4. Silsalah-E-Roz-O-Shab, Naqsh Gar-E-
Hadsaat
Silsalah-E-Roz-O-Shab, Asal-E-Hayat-
O-Mamaat
The succession of day and night, is
the architect of events.
The succession of day and night, is
the fountain‐head of life and death.

5. Tere Shab-O-Roz Ki Aur Haqiqat Hai Kya
Aik Zamane Ki Ro Jis Mein Na Din Hai Na Raat
What else is the reality of your days and
nights,
Besides a surge in the river of time, sans
day, sans night

6. Jis Mein Na Ho Inqilab, Mout Hai Woh
Zindagi
Rooh-E-Ummam Ki Hayat Kashmakash-E-
Inqilab
Life without change is death.
The tumult and turmoil of
revolution, Keep the soul of a
nation alive.

7. 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 in-
class time, more outside of class work,
and a great deal of freedom and
flexibility

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

9. 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

25. Goals/Priorities/Planning
Drucker's Dictum:
Doing things right is
not as important as
doing the right things.

26. 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?

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

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

29. 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.

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

31. 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

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

34. Options for time management
• Begin using a cyclical system early
in the academic year
• The system begins with goal
setting
• The Second phase involves tracking
time (where you spend your time)
• Third phase is plan making, and
this could include making to-do
lists, weekly plans, monthly plans
• The Fourth phase is self-monitoring
your action

35. 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
week.

36. 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.

37. 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?

38. 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.

39. 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!

40. 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

41. Time Tips
• Count all your time as time to be
used and make every attempt to get
satisfaction out of every moment.
• Find something to enjoy in whatever
you do.
• Try to be an optimist and seek out
the good in your life.
• Find ways to build on your
successes.
• Stop regretting your failures and
start learning from your mistakes.

42. Key Points
• Time management includes
tools or techniques for
planning and scheduling time,
usually with the aim to
increase the effectiveness
and/or efficiency & include:
• To-do-list
• Setting priorities
• Goal management

43. The TM Cycle

45. 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

46. 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.

47. 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.

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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. Review frequently
• Because of delayed recall (the
examinations next month, and the
finals) periodic review is necessary.
• An hour's review often results in as
much actual learning as five or six
hours of original study.
• A short weekly review of about thirty
minutes for all notes taken that week
will pay high dividends on all
examinations and in more permanent
learning for use in later years

53. Learning
• Space your learning.
• Studying two hours a day five
days a week, for four weeks
ordinarily results in more
learning than forty hours of
study crammed into a four-day
period
• Know word meanings
• Use a dictionary or the glossary
in your text or in a lecture.

65. THANK U VERY MUCH
GOD BLESS U