Home time management: how to do everything like a non-traditional student

I am writing this article to teach you about time management at home and how to do everything like a non-traditional student. With an increasing number of non-traditional students looking to further their education, this is a very common and sometimes seemingly insurmountable problem. What’s worse, without the right mindset, many times the negative effects seem to be magnified the longer one is struggling. You try to get things under control, but it seems to be an uphill battle.

The reason I felt the need to write about this topic is because I know that the same mindset and resulting strategies that helped me excel in college and graduate school can help you do the same. So if you are the type of person who struggles with this problem, after reading this article you will have a good idea of ​​what you could do to combat it.

While this is not a complete list of the strategies that allowed me, with relative ease, to accomplish the most important things, here are a few that I feel are more useful. Briefly, these are:

• Plan
• Delegate
• prioritize
• stand up quickly

Now, let’s look at each of these a little closer.

Plan

Planning is one of the first things have to learn to do With proper planning, you can do much more than you could ever end if you let things happen as they will. Trust me, I know from experience.

Planning will include figuring out what you need to do and when. Do you have an exam, paper or research project coming up? Do your children have practices / games that you need to solve? Every night, I’m sure, your family will want food. Meals are another thing that needs to be planned in advance.

Delegate

Delegating is one of those deal breakers. This includes having your spouse and children help with chores, like laundry, cleaning the house, and cooking. If you try to do everything yourself, you are making it nearly impossible to succeed in college.

prioritize

Prioritizing is an absolute necessity to succeed in college. Sometimes it will be more important for you to study than to scrub the floor. If everything had the same weight (importance) while you were in college as it did before you were a student, you would literally go crazy trying to do everything you did before AND attend class, study, do research, and write papers.

No, the time to study comes partly from doing things more efficiently, but…just as important…from deciding what really needs to be done and what can go wrong for now.

stand up quickly

This is one of the hardest tips I can give you. Deciding that the house can go from being mopped once a week to…if you’re a full-time student…once a month will require some discipline and learning to look the other way. It’s hard, but you just have to learn to let go of some things and then…more importantly…let them go and not change your mind.

I wrote this article for the express purpose of teaching you about time management at home and how to do everything like a non-traditional student.