THE ART OF TIME MANAGEMENT
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Target Finder
This strategy uses a bull's eye target to graphically represent the steps necessary to complete a task or achieve a goal. It can adapted for any type of scheduled or goal oriented event; it is a bull's eye target with due date for the intended goal or reward in the center. Here is how to create the target:
- Take your "task" and divide it into smaller units. Make sure they are realistic and manageable units. For example, to write a paper, brainstorm ideas, create an outline, write a rough draft, revise the draft, proof the final draft, and hand it in.
- Give each unit a due date starting with the professor's due date. Working backwards from the professor's due date, give each unit a due date that you will use to keep yourself on task
- Draw a small circle that will be the center of your target and write the professor's due date in the center.
- Then draw a concentric circle for each step that you determined necessary for accomplishing your task. Each concentric circle represents a layer of the task you deemed necessary to be accomplished before reaching your goal.
- Label each circle with due dates you set progressing towards the center, which represents the professor's due date
- As you complete each task the corresponding concentric circles gets eliminated, which gives you a sense of accomplishment and brings you closer to the bull's eye.