Effective Time Management Strategies

This assignment discusses the importance of effective time management skills in students' personal and professional lives. It highlights common barriers to time management, such as procrastination, task avoidance, inability to say no, prioritize tasks, and fear of failure. The study concludes that mastering time management techniques is vital for achieving a balance between academic and personal life, improving work quality, and increasing happiness and motivation.

STUDY SKILLS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1.Advantages of Time Management............................................................................................1
2 Challenges in time Management .............................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Time plays a crucial role in an individual's life (Owen, 2016). Everybody should respect
time because if time is gone then it will never come back. Student’s should especially take care
of time. With the help of Time Management skills individuals can accomplish their goals
effectively and can also live a stress-free life. Time management also help an individual to focus
on their successful career. Benefits of Time Management helps the individuals to improves the
another aspect of their life. Present report lay emphasis on the Time management benefits in
individual's life and challenges that are faced by them in time management.
MAIN BODY
1.Advantages of Time Management
Time Management is vital for the individuals as it helps them to focus on their studies
and get good marks. The whole Career of the student depends on efficient time management. It
assists to shape the individual's mind into the direction of sense of duty and direction of
discipline (Drew. and Bingham, 2017). Time Management is extremely crucial within the school
life for individuals as it allows them to used their time, efficiently and productively. Following
are the benefits of the Time Management of a individual's life.
In order to get passed student’s need to focus on their studies for whole year and it
becomes extremely important for them to manage their studies and job efficiently (Cottrell,
2019). So, it is important for individuals to manage their time effectively from the Start of the
Session and follow a regular time table so that it assists them to achieve more in the class as
compare to others individuals.
Causes less stress-Another great benefit of time management is that it causes less stress.
When a student wants to to do studies than they faces a lot of stress as completing assignment
with time, giving exams and also handle the job pressure so it is very helpful to manage their
time effectively so it can help them to release the stress as due to the stress it reduces the
productivity, hurt their relationship as well as health (Assiter, 2017).
Waste less time - Due to effective Management student waste less time on wok that
aren't important as the tasks assigned to them is urgent but they do not bring the High term value.
So, by Managing the time individuals can figure out what is important for them and what is not
(Noe. and et.al., 2017).
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Better Health as well as better Relationship- Poor time management leads to the bad
eating habits and less sleep and also leads to the stress. Time management main aim to take care
of health and it would better when less stress as well as less overwhelmed faced by a student.
Due to the good time Management individuals can Maintain their good Relations also as they
can spend more time with their family members (White.and et.al., 2017). It also improves the
relationship at the workplace as well. Time Management helps to reduce the procrastination as
procrastination kills the productivity. So everything is finish and also when there is no last
minute rush.
Plan of study for effective Time management
Example considers such as if a student wants to do part-time job as well as studies both
to support his family in order to improve financial conditions than they effective time
management helps a lot as due to time management plan individuals can focuses at their studies
and job both so effective time management can design a suitable development of plan regarding
to accomplish the study and job both successfully. (White.and et.al., 2017).
2 Challenges in time Management
Obstacles faced in time Management
 Lack of clear goals - Lack of clear goals Suggests that When individuals doing their
studies they can face most effective barriers that every student faces is lack of clear goals
as well as direction (Owen, 2016). For example-
 Procrastinate things- Second one is that Individuals procrastinate things. They fell that
they we will do it on tomorrow and tomorrow never came and after some time. This
became a habit of not only in studies, they can procrastinate in every tasks which is not
good for their overall development.
 Task Avoidance-Third effective barrier is once individuals start any project at school
level or university level than they are unable to finish at the end. It is considered as a big
waste of time (White and et.al., 2017). It shows that individuals are not serious in their
work and also this habit leads to the big loss in their Personal life as well.
 Unable to say NO- It considers that if a student in high school is unable to say no to
other student then might leads to waste of time as time is considered as the most precious
resource which leads to a big loss in their studies .(Owen, 2016).
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 Unable to prioritise things -Fifth one is that if Individuals can't prioritise things such as
they waste their precious time in things which are not important in their day to day life
and that task has no values in their future so for that they have to prioritise the things
which are more important to them and finish them first.
 Fear of failure - When people fails in their exams or assignments Than it becomes one
of the most effective barrier in anyone's life as whatever they do to pass in exams, back
of their mind they already faced a fear of uncompleted the task or Fear of not doing it
properly and they failed in exams because of their presumptions (Drew and Bingham,
2017).
CONCLUSION
From above study it had been concluded that time management is very vital skills to be
learned as well as mastered. Through the Management of time individuals could not suffer the
stress, health and relationship related problems. The main purpose to learn and practice
methods, techniques for effective time management become the master in time management and
creates a balance in personal as well as professional life. Quality and productive of their work is
enhanced and teams finish on time and they feel motivated. It also enhances the amount of
happiness and pleasures in their life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Assiter, A., 2017. Transferable skills in higher education. Routledge.
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Drew, S. and Bingham, R., 2017. The guide to learning and study skills: For higher education
and at work. Routledge.
Noe, R.A. and et.al., 2017. Human resource management: Gaining a competitive advantage.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Owen, J., 2016. Increasing time management skills to improve student athletes’ GPA.
White, S.M.and et.al., 2017. Assessment of Time Management Skills: Psychometric Properties
of the Swedish Version (ATMS–S). American Journal of Occupational
Therapy.71(4_Supplement_1).pp.7111500040p1-7111500040p1.
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