Good advice from Bob! And, at the risk of starting another war, I'd like to give you some advice on managing your time. Yes, this is an exercise I use to help students. I wish I knew where I found this, but I've been using for such a long time I truely don't have a clue. It is called Big Rocks. What you will need is a quart jar, five or six big rocks that you can fit into the jar at once (they should just about fill the jar) and a hand full of pebbles.
Trial 1. Put in the whole hand full of pebbles... it fills up, what 1/4 to 3/8 of the jar, right? Now put in the big rocks. How many did you get in? I bet you couldn't get all the big rocks into the jar.
Trial 2. Empty the jar. Put in all of the big rocks. Now take the hand full of pebbles, and pour them into the jar and shake them around until they fill up the spaces between the big rocks. Could you get all of them in? Probably.
The point is, schedule your big rocks first... those things that are the most important to get done, or those that are going to take the most time (and swimming can be one of them). That way you will be sure to have enough time to get the most important things done first. Then, schedule the smaller, less important, or less time consuming things, around the bigger ones. You will get more done in the same amount of time. It isn't too early to start using a day runner to schedule yourself, if organizational skills are what caused your poor grades.
And thats not working HARDER, thats just working SMARTER!
Good advice from Bob! And, at the risk of starting another war, I'd like to give you some advice on managing your time. Yes, this is an exercise I use to help students. I wish I knew where I found this, but I've been using for such a long time I truely don't have a clue. It is called Big Rocks. What you will need is a quart jar, five or six big rocks that you can fit into the jar at once (they should just about fill the jar) and a hand full of pebbles.
Trial 1. Put in the whole hand full of pebbles... it fills up, what 1/4 to 3/8 of the jar, right? Now put in the big rocks. How many did you get in? I bet you couldn't get all the big rocks into the jar.
Trial 2. Empty the jar. Put in all of the big rocks. Now take the hand full of pebbles, and pour them into the jar and shake them around until they fill up the spaces between the big rocks. Could you get all of them in? Probably.
The point is, schedule your big rocks first... those things that are the most important to get done, or those that are going to take the most time (and swimming can be one of them). That way you will be sure to have enough time to get the most important things done first. Then, schedule the smaller, less important, or less time consuming things, around the bigger ones. You will get more done in the same amount of time. It isn't too early to start using a day runner to schedule yourself, if organizational skills are what caused your poor grades.
And thats not working HARDER, thats just working SMARTER!
