Time Management

We Spent a session today brainstorming different things we have to do in our lives and how this can make doing our work difficult to achieve. We divided these into 3 subcategories; Domestic, Accademic and Social.

Domestic:
-cooking
-washing up
-Laundry
-Cleaning-washing
-hoovering
-dusting
-cleaning bathroom
-taking out bin
-tidying
-food shopping
-travelling
-buying family presents
-showering and personal cleaning
-filing documents and registering things (doctors/dentists/opticians)


Academic-
-indesign workshops
visual language weekly tasks
Blogging-visual language
               -visual narratives
               -PPP
Travelling to uni
attendance
lectures
briefings
crits
tutorials
essays
researching-out and about
                  - internet
                  -library

Social-
watching TV
talking to flatmates
ringing family
ringing friends at home
going to see family on weekends
going out to social events to make friends
social networking
video games
going out for food
going out to the cinema
going out for shopping/ coffee with friends
going out to clubs/bars/pubs
Cups of tea with friends
Movie nights
Seeing a boyfriend or girlfriend
Going to see boyfriend/ girlfriend or friends at other uni's
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In our groups we then had to create a list of top 10 of all these things that effect our doing and achieving our work.

Top 10.....
1). Tiredness- including (boredom/ stress/ aggrivation/ hunger ect)
2). trivial distractions such as social networking sights
3). Flatmates and friends
4). Cleaning and Cooking for ourselves
5). Illness
6). acts of god (things completely out of our controll)
7). Being unsure of where to begin with our work
8). being distracted by wanting/needing to do something which is maybe more enjoyable?
9). balancing doing work with cooking for ourselves and looking after ourselves as well as keeping in contact with friends and family.
10). the internets distractions.

From this we then had to create a list of 10 rules that we had to stick to during this week which would hopefully help us manage our time better

10 Rules. . . .
1). Eat 3 meals a day without fail
2). stop doing any work at 11pm in order to sleep or relax
3). If we feel stressed when doing any work then to take a step back and have 5 minutes to gather thoughts before going back to it.
4). have an hour to eat our evening meal as well as to spend time talking to friends/flatmates or relaxing or ringing family before going back to work
5). Have a day a week where we dont worry at all about work and let ourselves sleep
6). Give ourselves rewards for doing work, but only if we do the work
7). Put phone on silent when working so as to not get distracted by it but to still be available if its really necessary.
8).


On reflection of this PPP session, I feel that it has been valuable in respect to how we can divide up our time, but also to how it is important to take a step back and gather thoughts as well as to look after ourselves so that we can achieve as much out of work time as we can.