Self Management Checklist

The Counselling Services in University of Victoria has come up with 12 points on how to self-manage yourself and projects. The list is like a mini-project management course - but it is more personal and easier to catch on:

• Self Management

  • Specify a clear cut goal you want to accomplish
  • Specify when you'll do it
  • Record your hit rate
  • Make a public commitment
  • Add an explicit penalty for failure, if you need to
  • Think small
  • Specify the amount of product you're going to produce
  • Get a timer that beeps every five minutes and chart whether you're on task, if you find yourself drifting off too much
  • Arrange for regular contact with your monitor, daily or weekly as needed
  • Arrange for your friend to monitor your graphing as well as your goal attainment
  • Get rid of distractions
  • Recycle
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