Time Management and Stress
How much stress are you experiencing on a daily basis lately? What do you think are the main stressors? How do you deal with your stress? Do you try to limit what causes the stress in the first place mostly? Or do you focus on responding to the stress by caring for yourself in some way? A little of both? Write out your current understanding of your own stress and stress response practices.
What challenges do you currently face in managing your time? Review the ideas in this chapter and talk with a partner about what you find. What challenges do you think you’ll face going forward, over the next year or two, and later as you begin your career?
Imagine you are talking with a counselor and they are giving you some tips on time management techniques. Based on what you’ve read in this chapter, what do you think your counselor is likely to say? Make a list of the tips you think you might hear about. Next to each tip, write out your probable reactions. How open would you likely be to the tip and actually following through?
Time Management and Stress
After you’ve done some exploring of one or more of the concepts above, come back here and, first, write out what you have discovered in a few well-developed paragraphs. Second, what resources did you find? What websites, videos? Finally, how might these ideas be useful in your efforts in composing your college and professional career?
What’s your story? In general, have you been told you’re “good” at managing your time, “poor,” or somewhere in the middle? When you assess this view, how accurate do you feel it is? In other words, what story do you tell about yourself relative to time management? What kind of story do you want to tell going forward and what might you do to make that story a reality? APA.
