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Determining Your Big Rocks And Managing College Student Activities
All of us know how hectic college activities could become at a certain point in time. With all the classes, conferences, and researches, it is no wonder that some are incredibly stressed out and confused and have their priorities all mixed up.
There are those who hold a temporary job while attending college. Others have to juggle their studies with extra-curricular and civic activities. Of course, you also need to spend time with your friends and spend time with them.
All these things are actually part of the activities college students need to cope with. Organizing your time so that you can successfully complete your college degree and still fulfil your other responsibilities is a feat you need to master. Learning time management skills to increase your effectiveness is essential if you want fare well as college student.
For a start, you have to know how valuable each time of the day is and how to utilize your time well according to your activities in college. There is a famous story in Steven Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” which tells a profound lesson of how to manage your time wisely.
The story tells of a lecturer who stood in front of a class holding a big jar, which he placed with big rocks. After filling it up with big rocks, he asked the class if it is full and the students said yes.
Then, he got smaller rocks and put them in the big jar too, along with the big rocks. The smaller stones, naturally could fit in the jar. After which, he once more asked the students whether the jar is already full. Still, most in the class said yes. Other students cautiously said it appears full.
After their reply, the professor produced a bag of sand and emptied it into the jar, too. The sand, of course filled out all the tiny spaces between the big and small rocks. After emptying the entire bag of sand into the jar, he again asks the class if it is already full. The class,cautiously, said that it is full.
However, the man was not done yet, he took out a glass of water and emptied the water into the jar, which readily seeped up into the sand and ranks and eventually filled up the jar.
After this, the lecturer asks the class what the moral of the story is. The class, believing that they have spotted the trick, replied quite readily that the moral of the story is that “you could always squeeze a bit more in.”
But, the man immediately pointed out that the real moral of the story is that “you need to get your big rocks in first, or all that other smaller ‘stuff’ gets in way too soon and takes up all the space.”
Indeed, that is absolutely true and is really, a profound enlightenment about time management strategies for college students.
Firstly, you need to know what are your ‘big rocks’ – the things that matter to you the most. Of course, you could always squeeze in other minor activities along with your ‘big rock’ activities.
However, if you fail to determine your top priorities and always complete them first, then you will never have the chance to finish them out. This is because those other activities you are doing will take up most of your time and marginalize your efforts for your top priority activities.
According to Covey, these are the Quadrant 2 activities. Covey further reiterates that if you do not spend time to put the most important goal in your life as the first thing in your college student activity schedule, then you will never get the chance to let your ‘big rock’ activity evolve and grow.
This kind of effective time management is also a way of self-management. In fact, these two concepts are interrelated. College students have to determine priorities for themselves from number 1 or the most important thing they want from life, up to the least important but significant little stuff they have to do that supports their achievement of their most important goal.
After you have pin pointed your ‘big rock’ activity, then you need to manage your college student activities – studies, researches, extra – curricular college activities, civic duties and socials, around your ultimate goal. Make sure that you do not end up doing lots of things but finish up with nothing.
Take time to reflect on your reasons for being in college and your reasons for getting yourself involved with other college student activities. Doing this exercise helps you draw up the list of priorities you need to accomplish.
Always remember Covey and his big rocks, though. In listing down your priorities in life, always put in number one, your big rock activities.
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