OUGD402 - Time Management

This session was all about time management. It aimed to help organise our time better throughout the coming weeks. To do this we started by focusing on the things we have to do to maintain a healthy life and our responsibilities, such as eat decent meals, get enough sleep, shower, attend college. These responsibilities were laid out into a weekly timetable from 7am to 12am every day. This timetable aimed to show us the time we have spare and so, in comparison, we created a 'want to' list of activities we would like to do within this spare time. This list included things such as, start learning German again, buy a new car and join the life drawing society at LCA.

This session helped me to focus on the things I have to do vs. the things I want to do and how these could both relate to each other, such as 'want to buy a new car' and 'have to look for a new car'. However, in terms of time management it is hard to stick to a strict weekly timetable like the one below showing each individual hour in the day. I also found it hard to be realistic in how I usually manage my time, as activities and responsibilities can change week by week or day by day and I feel that this did not help me to manage my time better. Instead I found myself focusing more on what I felt was the most important and appropriate thing to do at each specific time.