those of you were here last week and i know several of you were um the goal then was to

do the first part of uh... organizing your study time to have people think if they're

too busy or not if they've taken on too much

to learn how to know what's coming uh...

all of that so today we have two more questions for me to try to help you answer for yourself

do i know how to set up a successful daily schedule and do i know how to avoid procrastination

for some people this

is really serious a serious problem other people not as much

this is an interesting one for everyone so this is what we're gonna start with and

by a uh... daily schedule this

is what i'm talking about ok this has the entire week

everyday sunday through saturday from six in the morning till midnight it has a place

at the bottom for the class schedule so this is what i'm gonna be referring to for about

the next twenty minutes or so and

you have to help me with this

my goal at the end of the workshop is to give everybody one of these so that you can

use it hopefully the way that i teach you today and some people even actually use this

as a master and they make several copies so sometimes when the workshop is over i'm trying

to get you out

i'm trying to get out

and i forget so just say hey

if i forget and i'll make sure you get one i got a plenty of these for you alright

so uh...

here's the uh... the first idea when it comes to setting up a successful daily schedule

some people like schedules and like filling in boxes other people don't

even those people who don't like

this idea

when

you learn the way that i show you how to do this

it may not convert you to somebody who uses one of these everyday but hopefully it'll

help you get some ideas that you can use and sort of customize

to your own way of doing things

um... the one thing that i wanted to say first sort of to introduce this is that whether

you have ever actually used something like this before not everybody sort of knows how

to use it you just put in your life in the boxes and all that but

most people don't know

a really good successful way to use it and so that's what i'm gonna try to show you today

um a lot of people have a negative attitude toward this

and so uh...

and by the way some people make me nervous

i guess i'm more of a schedule person but people just say uh... i say how do you decide

your schedule and all that they i just wake up in the morning

just sort of see where the day takes me

so they just sort of make it up as they go along uh... that's nice but sometimes you

have a lot of specific things you have to do at scheduled times during the day so you

have to kind of come up with a balance so a lot of people look at a schedule like

this and their first reaction is i would never want to do one of these and i say why and

some people say

well because it would suck all the fun out of life

forever

because the idea is that you fill out every box every day and then you have to follow

it and

that sounds awful to me too uh... people say i can't just do anything on the spur of the

moment when i feel like it 'cause it's all programed or planed well that's not my design

with this at all because that doesn't work

and you can kind of figure that out

also

does life

always fit according to plans

no some people in here and i don't know you well enough but some people in here have a

life that's kind of

predictable and steady

and then others of you

you have no idea what's around the next corner because of

family issues or whatever else it is so i'm not going to try to turn anyone in here

into a slave of a schedule where you have to follow it around everyday trying to figure

out what to do

but i'm gonna show you some things that have really helped students to get a lot more done

make their study time work a lot better for them and it's all based on this ok so the

first thing

is for me to jot down something and just talk to you about it for a couple of minutes and that

is

uh... when a person is faced with a blank time management schedule and they're going

to start plugging in their life in the boxes

there's a certain order

that seems to help students really get a lot of use out of this

and it's not just any random order for putting things on there is an exact order

so this is what i wanna show you first it's really simple concept

and that is

i ask people what's the first thing you would think of to put on the schedule people say

well my class schedule

i say what else well my work hours

what else family time

all those things would need to go on there

but that's never the first thing i suggest so here's one that might surprise you

that's what goes on their first

okay and the reason that this is important is because for mental health

to have balance

i don't know if there's anyone in here like this and you don't have to raise your hand

if this is you but some people when i say this you need to

allow for fun

some people say what's that

i don't have time for that

i'll do that during the vacation they're just like really hard driven

other people

that's never a problem

i have some people who have fun

every second of every day

they hardly ever do anything they're supposed to do but they have so much fun so it's a

balance between the two

and so fun activities i'm going to give you an example of the this in a minute

uh... next

and i'm not gonna write all of these down but i'll say a uh... everything else

practically

okay so all the things you would think that would need to go on a time management schedule

like

class time

work time family time social time

any other thing that you do that is our regular same day same time every week all of that

would go on there

the orders not that important

and then

this is a strange statement coming from me for sure

the last thing that you should put on a time management schedule for sure

is this

study time

and that seems like a really strange idea coming from me because i teach

study skills

and some people have said shouldn't it be

this way you know if you have a little time for fun throw it in there but if not

study twenty four hours a day

you'll go crazy if you try to study too much you have to have balance

why would you put study time on the schedule last it doesn't seem to make sense but that's

what i want to show you so i'm gonna give you the first of a couple of handouts today

this is a sample

schedule that's been partially filled out by a student and i wanna show you a couple of

things on here first and then get to the details of why it's helpful to put study time on last

this is uh... a pretty long teaching actually uh... so i'm gonna just sort of hit some highlights

wish i could get into more detail but no time for that

uh... if you could pass the rest back.. i think i gave you enough hope

here's some extras

okay i think that works

okay uh... here ya go

okay so i want you to look first at the bottom of the page and i want you to notice this

student whose life we're gonna look at for a few minutes they have a pretty busy school

schedule they have general business class history english and math and

no matter how long you've been in college

you know that every one of those classes is going require a lot of work lot of homework lot of reading

ecetera next to that the days and times that the classes meet than the total

hours in class means per week

so three hours ecetera and then the study hours needed is based on something i taught

last week which again is that times two formula that you kind of estimating how many hours

you need to study this person

as a result of all this is in class twelve hours a week

they're gonna plan to study twenty four hours a week and they also work twenty five hours

a week

so that's a busy person

when we look up into the schedule we see

some fun activities anybody see a fun activity

besides sleep

yeah out with friends on friday night

and then there's some tv

kind of scattered in there

uh... are they going to have more fun than that during the week

probably but these are the ones that they're setting aside so that they can do them and

relax and not feel guilty

cuz you always have something to do for school you always have a chapter to read or something

else but

you need to get away from it for a little periods of time uh...

class time is listed here

work time

fam some family time some social time so it's kind of like what i described up here

except

what's missing

what is their none of

yeah study time and

this person if you just kind of glance at this looks like they're kind of busy

but you see a lot of open boxes scattered all around those are all possible study hours

are they gonna study every one of those no

but they're available okay and so this brings me to the first reason why it's usually very

helpful to put study time on last when you look at your life the best that you know it

and let's say that this is your life for right now you look at this and you see the open

boxes scattered throughout the day

in the evening

and this brings up an important question or an important consideration

that a lot of people never think of and i wanna talk about this for just a few minutes

uh... it has to do with this

best time of day

and so uh... i'm actually going to take a quick survey of uh... everybody here 'cause

it's always interesting for me to see this

uh... the question is during what period of the day usually

do you have the most energy

you're the most wide awake you're able to concentrate the best i'm gonna give you four choices even

though the none of these might work exactly for u one would be

from eight to twelve in the morning

twelve to four

four to eight

and then eight o'clock to midnight

so how many of you would feel like the morning time is when you're at your very best the

most energy one two three four five six eight

how about twelve to four

seven

it's almost everybody four to eight

got one and how about eight to twelve at night

one that's interesting

your an interesting group

sometimes this is the highest group sometimes it's blended whatever but

everybody here has a body clock that works differently than everybody else

and some of you

when you first wake up about ten minutes or twenty minutes after you're awake

you're awake

and you're the best you're going to be all day and a person who's a morning person

i always say that they're great here they're good here

they're ok here

and by about nine o'clock at night

one eyes closing and they're just dying okay

person who is a night person

takes a long long time to get going and then they're alive here and everybody else is just

sort of different so what does this have to do with studying well

when would be the smartest time for any student to study

yeah when they have more energy which means their best time of the day

though everybody who raised your hand for this one

or for this one whatever

uh... the uh... as much as you can within reason you should try to study during that

time during your best time of the day

when do most people study

not