Time Management

CHAPTER 1                   

INTRODUCTION

1.1         BACKGROUND

       How often have we heard the old saying "time is money". Indeed, if we want to organize our lives so that our lives or make fun, as the beginning of what we need to do is set the time. Effective time management is fundamental to the extent of life. But in fact, there is often a difference between the achievement of true life.

       Not surprisingly, the entire industry timer becomes a necessity. But if we look a little deeper, we can see that the actual timing is not different from the self-management. Because the kenyataany, we can not manage time, we can arrange ttetapi ourselves and what we do in every occasion.

      Success is the result of habit. Therefore, the first step that must be done is how we use the time, beginning with our habits (self control). And this habit started as a conscious decision-making.

      Time management is a way you can do to balance your time to learning or work, have fun or relax, and rest effectively. Without realizing it, every time you actually have to make some decisions regarding time management. For example, you decide when to go to college, studying at home, exercise, prayer, visiting the library, relax, talk with friends and shopping. All of these decisions play an important role in the preparation of your time management strategy.

1.2         PROBLEM FORMULATION

1.      What is time management?

2.      Why is time management important?

3.      How to improve time manajement?

4.      How to prepare guidelines for time management?

5.      How to avoid becoming a procrastinator?

1.3        PURPOSE OF WRITING

1.      To fulfill the given task mother lecturer Mrs. Ratna Muntiningsih S.Pd S.Hum

2.      To explain about time management.

3.      Explain that time management is important.

4.      Explain how to improve time management.

5.      Describe the management guidelines compile time.

6.      Describe how to avoid being a procrastinator.

1.4        BENEFITS 

1.      In order for student to understand more about time management.

CHAPTER 2                   

DISCUSSION

2.1         Definition of Time Management

      Time management is a way you can do to balance your time to learning or work, have fun or relax, and rest effectively. Without realizing it, every time you actually have to make some decisions regarding time management. For example, you decide when to go to college, studying at home, exercise, prayer, visiting the library, relax, talk with friends and shopping. All of these decisions play an important role in the preparation of your time management strategy.

      If you can balance your time, it is expected that the result is going to increase your concentration, organization of your time would be better, productivity will increase, and most importantly your stress level will be reduced. By managing your time better then you will find a balance between when to study, work, relax, and rest which eventually will make your life a little younger and happier.

      When you feel that you often late into the campus, forget there is a class you should attend, forgetting completely that there are certain meetings that you should follow, a waste of time without clear results, tasks in a hurry because terpepet, or the day before the exam you feel panic because it was not yet finished reading material, or suddenly find time to relax disappear and become depressed or stressed, then the symptoms that you need good time management.

2.2         The reason why time management is important

      Set the time in a neat and effective not an easy task especially seeks to obey them consistently and persistently. As a young child and a student you will surely have many activities and new challenges, and the role and responsibility as well as other priorities you have to do. All activities and the demands it will always compete for your time and attention.

      Adaptation period of adolescence who previously underwent secondary education to young adulthood who started his higher education at the college make and requires great change in managing your time management. The big change was partly due to the following points :

a)      The increasting role and responsibility for self-learning.

b)      The number of new activities to be followed, such as new sports, student associations or group of new learning, student activities inside or outside the campus.

c)      Friend and new experiences.

d)     Demands for more take independent decisions without interference from parents or relatives.

e)      The residence and the new environment.

f)       Greater need for such do things daily routine independently, such as shopping, cooking, washing, cleaning the room, pay regular bills.

g)      Perhaps you also have to work part-time or take care of your family who live together.

2.3         How to improve time management

      The key to time management is planning. Without it, you will never succeed in managing time let alone achieve optimal results. Whatever your reluctance because it seemed boring, but compiled a long list of these activities-was to be done, set aside some time to think which of the list should be chosen in advance to be implemented tomorrow, after tomorrow, next week or next month, is the most critical moment for you to control the timing of 'life' of your own.

Here are the steps to help you arrange or organize time management :

a)      Keep a calender or agenda or specific records, either manually or electronically.

b)      Write all the date, day, time related to your academic activities. For example, the date of the middle and end of term exams, the final date for submitting classroom assignments, the last date the limit tuition, academic guardianship date with faculty trustee, the date of registration of the plan of study.

c)      Write all the date, day and time for social activities and personal. For example, when it had an appointment to consult a doctor, when to pay the electric bill, bill rent rooms, sports competition schedule, schedule to return to the old people's home in the area, or to visit relatives.

d)     Arrange the priority actions contained in the list of b and c above, ranging from the most important to the least principal, resulting in a regular weekly schedule. For example, you can set up a schedule by dividing the range of your activities into four (4) groups :

1)      academic activity that has been 'fixed' (top priority):

Ø  Schedule classroom lectures

Ø  Schedule practicum

Ø  Schedule to library

Ø  Schedule mandatory tutorial

Ø  Schedule independent learning (outside the classroom) daily

2)      social or personal activities that have been 'fixed' (as well as the highest priority) :

Ø  regular schedule eating, taking medication

Ø  Bedtime

Ø  When exercising

Ø  worship schedule, trip 'homecoming'

Ø  Caring for pets

3)      supporting academic activity (as a priority but the most important ranking below) :

Ø  Schedule group discussions to create a class assignment

Ø  mentoring Schedule (tentative alias is not required by the faculty)

4)      social or personal activities support (important but not the main priority) :

Ø  Schedule a visit to relatives and friends

Ø  Schedule grocery shopping, washing clothes, cleaning the room

Ø  Watch music concerts, theater, sporting competitions

Ø  Schedule to the museum, youth meeting in your neighborhood

Ø  The meeting schedule in student organizations

Ø  Schedule to communicate regularly with parents who do not live with you

e)      Make sure you schedule a weekly routine that consists of a balanced combination of components / groups above. At this point you learn jarus wise to be cautious but earnest choose which is the first priority, second, and so on. Remember, however, that you are undergoing higher education that is feasible and reasonable if you put the number 1 in the above activity in the highest places. This is where the importance of balance, meaning that you have to learn to draw up a balanced schedule contents of the four groups listed above. Keep in mind that the purpose of the weekly schedule is not that all the activities had been completed, but rather on ensuring that things need to be done in the end it is true you do.

f)       Make sure that you adhere to the schedule of your weekly routine stacking. For example, present in the classroom at all lectures, doing assignments and independent study that has been scheduled, avoid procrastination work (procrastination).

2.4         Guidelines compile time

      Here are some things that need to be considered by you as a guide to develop good time management (in addition to the five steps in section 3 above) :

a.       ends meet while sleeping between 6-8 hours / day

b.      Strive to schedule your activities take place between the hours of 6:00 to 22:00 pm

c.       Each week you schedule contains four groups of activity in number 3 above description

d.      Schedule time self-learning that you at least 20 hours / week (outside the lecture time in class)

e.       Plan a maximum of 10 hours of self study / per day

f.       Develop a plan of self-study for each subject or topic of a maximum of 5 hours / day

g.      Hose alternately self-learning topics regularly if you for example decide that from 07.00 to 13:00 is the time to learn independently (that you do not spend 6 hours just to learn one topic)

h.      . Know yourself whether as a 'morning person', 'night owl person', or 'late afternoon person' to ensure that the schedule in accordance with the rhythm of work and the 'biological clock' you

i.        Take time for a short break amid the learning time (example, no more 10-minute break every hour)

j.        Train and familiarize yourself to do something just once, alias avoid the habit of repeating. For example, reading a text about a topic as much as possible just 1 time but to make sure you understand and remember what was in it. Avoid the myth that to be able to understand the contents of a reading, you should read it 2-3 times

k.      Learning to focus or concentration, without pause for a minimum of 15-20 minutes; then increased to focus for 30-50 minutes without pause. It is necessary at all, especially to help you listen to the lecturer explained in class, taking notes, reading, and writing. Remember, reading and academic writing takes longer than the usual you write, read magazines, comics, or let alone write an email, electronic messaging, twitter, or the like

l.        Sometimes it is necessary to draw up a weekly schedule in which the first day of which net of academic assignments

m.    Get used to do the little things and the 'trivial or mild' on the sidelines of a break or when you're waiting for something. For example, respond to electronic messages can be done only when you break or when you are waiting to see a doctor, lecturer, in line at the counter, or while it is in the public transportation (but, watch out with your cell phone because doing it in public transportation also invite potential bad guy to disturb you).

n.      Learning and familiarize themselves to dare refuse an invitation or to say 'no' to friends, relatives when they invite or encourage conduct of certain activities that may disrupt your time management. Similarly to refuse to leave the house for the day of the exam; or an invitation to make some commitments simultaneously

o.      Ask friends, and relatives to respect your time management as well and make them understand that they can not at any time interfere with you or ask communicate with you at all times as they wish when you're learning

p.      Isolate yourself in order to be able to concentrate or focus on learning (read or write), with for example: close the door, turn off the audio-visual devices, turn off the cell phone, stop responding to email or electronic message, twitter, facebook or the like

q.      Be realistic and flexible enough, do not be rigid. Develop a very tight schedule and forced to obey rigidly can actually make you eventually become saturated, and the loss of passion (passionate) learned that it becomes counter-productive. Note also that your speed in learning and managing learning time management can change along with the increase of the semester. For example, in the 1-2 first half on the bench college you may feel very difficult to draw up management time and heavy demands you must meet; but in semester 3 and so you may feel a little more loose, dynamic, and more flexible. This happens because you have become accustomed, to know better the environment, recognizing the habit themselves, and also you get older.

2.5        How to avoid becoming procrastinator

      Procrastinator are very like to postpone the work until the day or minute ahead of the end of the deadline. Delaying action until the job ahead of dead-line is called procrastination. If this is allowed to take place continuously obviously would be a bad study habits. In fact, this practice will continue to be entrenched in the time you've been working as a professional or professional carrier which consequently is your performance will not be optimal, severe stress, have a negative impact on physical health until failure. Therefore, you get used to not be a procrastinator. How to? Some of these instructions may be able to do :

a.       Get used to study or work based on the agenda because in this way you will realize how much activity a day are able to do according to ability and eventually you will know that the delay learning / work in the end will not help you at all.

b.      If you start working on a big task immediately when you feel ready or are under pressure to be finished because tomorrow is the deadline for completion, then it is possible you will be successful, but remember not always be successful.

c.       . So start with small things from the beginning. Try to parse or describe a large task into several stages or small parts that allow you to get right to work as early as possible. With a huge task it part by part from the beginning will make you aware of how much the real task and requires how much time to complete

d.      Work without inviting the possibility of interference, example turn off the music player, video, mobile telephone, internet connection and the like which clearly can disrupt your concentration. If you people who depend on music to help your concentration, then do the opposite ie rotate your audio device.

e.       To reduce boredom, you learn the topic a little modification on that day, for example with interspersed read the newspaper, read comics, graffiti graffiti drawing an object, planting, feeding the fish in kolan / aquarium or play with your pet such as a dog or cat, etc. . The important thing is to remember that not to fall asleep doing these things that I forget the main topic of the day!

CHAPTER 3                   

CLOSING

3.1        Conclusions

     Success in any activities of the company or organization or individual required the use or utilization of the optimal time of all resources contained therein. One is time. Therefore, to obtain more limited time, especially time management is needed in everyday life.

3.2         Advice

     The best way to use time is immediately take action, and dispose of laziness. Will and mind to be put together to take real action and not words. When you are good at talking, then your actions give examples or exemplary indispensable. Do not be arrogant, because arrogance will impose yourself.

      Make sure nothing is wasted your time in vain, since the beginning of time management is a success.

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