Ranking My Priorities

I am sorry, you have to tilt your head sideways to read my picture, it just would not upload on the right angle...

Yes, I do not know what to do sometimes. And, yes, this is how I start to procrastinate. And you know, once I start procrastinating, nothing ever gets done, and it becomes an FAILURE. To stop this from happening every once in a while, I start becoming very friendly with my planner. From my planner, I can tell what my priorities are, and what the little things are that I still need to do. My planner can be utilized in every single, little ways, and I always love to keep it handy, and read it every 2~3 hours to keep everything organized in my brain. Even if I have everything written down on my planner, sometimes I get lost of track what to start working on first. That is because I do not know how to distinguish what is the most important thing to work on, vs. what takes the least amount of time to finish. So, what I usually do not do, I did this certain week, after I learned how to use "Ranking ma Priorities". I highlighted what was the most important and time consuming with RED, showing that that is the RED ALERT. Then, the ones tagged under the green lines are the next important things to do. The ones not colored are the least important things to do for that certain day, and they are the kind of jobs that I just need to start working on, or just skim through. The words that are colored are also important jobs for me, and I just wrote them in color because they are something that I promised myself that I would do.

So I wanted to organize my RANK into one clean chart. I hope you can read this; the dates are written on the left-hand margin, and the ranks, as I ranked A,B,C are on the head margin. I organized everything I need to do for the week into the boxes. In CLS class, Professor Blumin mentioned about utilizing the boxes, the charts to make your information look more organized and alive to you. I utilized that skill into this one, wondering how it would stand out to my own eyes, and guess what, they are clean as a pair of brand new NIKES! They stand out to my eyes, and right when I look at it, my brain starts functioning, telling me what I should work on first, then what's next, and so on. With this strategy, there is no procrastinating whatsoever, since you know what you are doing right now, in the next few hours, and can estimate at what time you will be done. What a useful strategy it is. I put down all my classworks into the boxes, and every box I complete for one day, I can move on to the next one for the time being. What I learned was that work that consumes the most time should be done first, because they are usually the ones that account for more points, or more studying. I used to never think this way. I always liked to finish "easy tasks" first, but unless I want to pull out an all nighter, it is not a good idea, since I get in a hurry to finish the bigger tasks, the more important one. Too bad I do not have the right technology to utilize iStudiez application, but I still like to write myself, and read on the papers. This strategy helped me in a lot of ways, getting my self organized, saving my time, and being able to focus on one subject at a time.

LET'S DO IT!!