One Fish, Two Fish, Green Fish, Blue Fish

So this week we learned about balance and time management. I feel like every time we have a new lesson afterwards I'm like "Oh, I'm really bad at that". And that's basically true for this one too. I'm not very good at time management. I procrastinate a lot and don't always spend my time in the wisest ways. I like to be social and will usually put off doing homework to hang out with my friends. Also, this will lead to sacrificing sleep to do homework. In the end it's a bad cycle where I should have just done my homework first.

Now, in our labs on Monday we talked about how sometimes when you get a lot of information you have to just try and take a fish, or one particularly important bit of information, away from it. I want to talk about the fish that I caught this week. The first one is to spend more time in Quadrant II. We learned about how there are four different quadrants: Important and Urgent, Important and Not urgent, Not important and Urgent, and Not important and Not Urgent. Quadrant II is Important and Not Urgent and it is a very good quadrant to spend you're time. Things in this quadrant usually have to do with keeping you're life balanced, like reading your scriptures or sleeping. They may not always seem like they need to be done right away but they still need to be done. I know that I have a hard time staying in this quadrant because I never feel like I have enough time to do the smaller important things. Also, in this quadrant are assignments that have a deadline that is far away. My problem is that I will usually leave these assignments alone until they have moved into the Important and Urgent quadrant. I feel like my Important and Urgent quadrant is always very full, but I can change that by spending more time in quadrant II. So, my new goal is to spend most of my time in quadrant two and hopefully it will make my life more balanced. I got an app on my computer that is like a calendar that will help me see when everything is due and hopefully help me plan ahead for when I should do things.