Organizing Your Time

Organizing your time is very important for success at UAMS. It will create more time for you and reduce your stress. You will need to organize time daily, weekly and throughout a semester.

Take a quick survey to get an idea how successfully you manage your time.

Consider the following

• To analyze how you spend your time, try to keep a time log for at least three days.

• See an example of a time log (Use Template#18).
• Once you complete a time-log for few days, there are several questions to ask yourself:
  • Are you spending too much time on unimportant things and too little on what is important?

• For each task ask yourself, “Why I am doing this? Do I need to do this?”
• Do you have too many interruptions during a day (such as searching the internet, answering e-mails etc.)?

• Do you procrastinate between tasks?

• Do you use your high energy time to accomplish the most demanding tasks?

References

Time Management for Health Professions Students

Prepared by the Office of State-Wide Health Planning and Development

Effective Time Management Strategies http://www.mytimemanagement.com/index.html

©UAMS Student Success Center/ Vuk, J. M.D., Ph.D. July/2015