By Lu Kuan Chung Every student in NTU knows or should know that the bell which chimes twenty-one times between classes is a reminder of spending three hours thinking every day. Whether we spend our time loosely or efficiently is a fundamental issue of life. An artist may spend five hours meditating, a scholar may spend ten hours doing research, and a businessman might spend twelve hours making decisions and yelling at people who will get fired. What do students do? How do we manage our precious time? Time management is never a small issue. Anything can go wrong if it is not properly scheduled. According to statistics, 70-80% of people who are unsatisfied with themselves have problems dealing with time. Their anxiety often results from their inability to accomplish assignments on time. They are caught in the trap between their expectations and time limits. Do you also feel pressured by time and the anxiety of deadlines? The main idea of turning over a new leaf is to know what is the most important thing, what is the second most important thing, and so on. It also means knowing what the least important thing is. There are always too many things to do in limited amount of time. If we fail it is often because we place too much emphasis on unnecessary things. This kind of feeling is most familiar to procrastinators. But different people will also have different priorities. Since we are students our main priority is studying, but that doesn’t mean our purpose is purely practical. It may be a dream that we want to fulfill, or a hope that keeps us going. Getting a degree is a general purpose, for instance. How to put it into practice? 1. Examine the life we have right at the moment. How we spent our time and how we collect the results and whether we are satisfied with it. 2. Organize the time we use the computer. No matter we are watching videos, checking email, chatting, we should not abuse technology. 3. We can organize our schedules into precise time periods, but we also need to make these schedules plausible. 4. Keep the schedule up to date. Remember that if one thing has been repeated on your schedule but tit is still undone, it means you need to make time or it may never be done. 5. Finally, make good use of the resources to save your time. You may wonder whether learning these habits will make us live happily ever after. Well, I’d like to give you a positive answer, but there are too many surprises in life. We deal with the present and the past, but what we face is the future. The future is unpredictable and we cannot just stay where we are now. We have to think ahead and detect problems before they arise. a
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May 2024
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