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Oops Deadline (or: Long Term Planning)

How is your time management?

Do you suddenly realise you haven’t got enough time to finish? Perhaps you panic when the deadline is months away?

This hack helps you visualize what you need to do and when.

Planning just one thing is not so bad. You get a wall calendar and mark on the due date then work back from there.

If you don’t know how long things take, time yourself and find out your personal average:

-How long does it take to find three relevant articles?

-How long does it take to work out what is needed?

-How long does creating the scaffold take?

How to manage when you have several projects to plan?

Your wall calendar may get crowded. It’s hard to see what is going on. Consider getting a “yearly vacation planner” which is used in workplaces with a line for every employee. Use a separate line for each of your projects/tasks.

The first thing to do when you start a course or project is to find out all the deadlines and mark them on your holiday planner. Use a line for each course/project.

You may find where several of your essays/papers/tasks need to be completed all at once. Don’t panic. The planner will allow you to figure out what you need to work on at every step.

As you fill in what-to-do-when on your planner, it begins to look like a Gantt chart (absolutely look those up if you’re not yet familiar with them). It is easy to see what is next and in what order. It’ll help you find out if at any point you may need help rather than waiting until everything is due at once and you have run out of time.
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