Show Cal Stroud Addresses Students On Time Management by Mic Michelle elle Glaittli The happiest people are those with projects they have hav a purpose Cal Stroud said while giving an enthusiastic one hour lect lecture re to students on time management The lecture was h held ld in the College Colleg Center on Nov 26 and was sponsored by the Women's Center ti r f fy b N NY y fl Y j J ra sw Y Z P rr f ro 2 E Alice Smith and Cal Gal Stroud answer questions from group Stroud focused on major time tune wasters how y to g get t rid of bad habits and attitudes towards time He compared a bank account with deposited every day to seconds in every day Time is money and according to our values we will basically spend time on the same things we spend our money on Attitudes directly affect our behavior said Stroud He had students make a list of their attitudes and bad habits that related to time Some attitudes mentioned were Time There just isn't enough time flies flies and Why should I start now I wont won't finish Habits that were were discussed were procrastination having too many projects at one time and not planning ah ahead d. d Stroud said if we strongly believe something we will act accordingly The bottom line Stroud said is We must be beco committed mitt df Next Stroud had students write te down oWn goals in Jour ro four areas phy physical ical mental spiritual u and social Af After r students had established their goa goats goals he he e h had the them put the their r goals into a ti tithe time frame by writing when or how long it would take them to accomplish th their ir goals Then Stroud h had had- Jl students br break that time time timeframe timeframe frame in inh half If their goals a y year ar he had them make a goal for six months If H it would only omy take tak a month then the goal was moved to two weeks and so on down to toone one day This said Stroud is where being committed isso is isso isso so important If H you dont don't spend time every day on at least one of your goals you wont won't accomplish them 1 Time management d does es not not happen happen in a vacuum You have to know yourself s said id Stroud He feels self awareness ss is a very important aspect to time management If you know where your values are its it's easy sy to tomake tomake tomake make goals he said At the end of the lecture a self evaluation worksheet was handed out outto outto outto to help students know in what area they could improve There was was' wasa a section for planning organizing directing controlling ineffective performance e c communicating mm ting and decision |