Time Management

[ryoder]

Maniac - I feel for ya man. You have energy and intelligence and desire. Those are all key ingredients. Think of a laser. I can't remember how all those photons end up pointing in one direction but try to channel your energy and brainpower into a coherent beam and you will be able to rip through anything you want in life.

I had this problem in college. Thats why I dropped out. I cared more about writing video games than going to school. I spent the wee hours of the night focusing on the wrong thing.

Here is what I recommend. Everything you do, ask yourself if it is furthering your goals. If it is not, then don't do it.

This sounds incredibly harsh but it works. You need to start feeling guilty about playing video games, watching tv or anything else that is not studying.

Treat those actions as a reward. If you spend 8 hours working today, you get to spend the rest of the night playing Dragon Age 2 on xbox. Thats what I do.

I hate to say it, but realize where you waste the most time and shut those things off in your life. It might include message boards, facebook, email, engadget.com, ebay, whatever it may be.

I just wrote a paper about internet use policies and did you know that since Canada has such liberal privacy laws employees can surf the web without any monitoring. As a result the average company loses 1 day out of 5 due to employee web browsing.

Become your own policeman. This is why I recommend the REA books. You sit in a chair and read the book with no access to instantcert, messageboards etc. You can have hours of uninterrupted learning the old fashion way.

Good luck.

I have to get back to my final paper.