PPP BLOG: Time Management

It's time for time management! YEY.

Fred had us use grids to create percentages of time we think we use on different activities during the week. It was actually really difficult thinking of 9 things, because at uni I seem to have become very boring and anti social, and I'm either in the studio or at home watching tv and eating my tea. I also learnt how off kilter my time management is. My 2 main activities were sleeping (33%) and watching TV (29.2%), and then university work took up about 23.9% of my time. Because I have been spending more time in the studio however, I'm not going to beat myself up too much about my apparent laziness because I tend to keep on top of everything.

Fred then asked us to categorise our activities by domestic, social and BAGD related.

My lists included Researching, workshops, crits, and blogging (BAGD related), cooking, cleaning, travelling, food shopping (domestic) and drumming, baking, meals out and spending time with loved ones (social).

We then used the 3 other grids to time how long we spent on these activities in each of the categories. Again, I found that I spent most time of either social or domestic activities, which was surprising as some times it feels like I'm in the studio all the time.

Now we are being encouraged to write daily plans and to do lists for the week to record what we plan to do and what actually gets done, which I have already found quite useful, despite the very long list, putting aside specific times for them should hopefully be more manageable, and like in high school revision (not that I practiced it then), dividing it up into bite size chunks will make it seem less scary. I hope.