Managing Your Time and Avoiding Procrastination

People today have much more information to manage than at any other time in history. It’s no surprise that most of us struggle with organizing our lives and managing our time. Now that you are in college, you probably have more and more things to do and less time to do it in. Getting organized and managing your time may seem almost impossible some days.

Perhaps you know people who are highly organized and manage their time exceptionally well. You may feel that they just have a talent for it, a talent you lack—but this is not so. Rather, they have usually learned specific strategies and skills, through trial and error and by careful observation. Anyone can learn good time-management and organization strategies and skills. Moreover, to do this, you won’t have to buy time-saving and organizing gadgets or read every time-management article you see online. You need to gain control of your time, your space, and—as a college student—your information. A few concrete, practical suggestions can help you to gain this control.