Dear Students: Being Timely is an Essential Habit for Being Successful

Time management is more important than you may realize.

If you’re going to be successful, you’re going to have to be timely. That means that you’re using your time wisely. It means that you’re using your time efficiently and effectively. In order to do that, you need to consistently organize and manage your time.

Time is always against us. You’re not getting any younger, and you don’t want to be a high school student forever. Time management is a skill that you’ll need to learn and get better at in order to be successful in life, so you might as well learn it now.

Time is something limited, and something that you’ll have to use wisely. We all get 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds in each minute. No one, not me (and especially you), get any more than that. You don’t have an unlimited amount of time to finish your schoolwork. Get it done now!

Be on Time

In order to be timely, one thing that you’ll have to do is be on time. If you’re on time, that’ll be the first step in maximizing your time.

If you’re late, you’re missing out. If you’re absent, you miss out completely. It works in your favor to be earlier than expected to ensure that you’re on time.

You may have a lot going on in your own life. No matter what, you need to find a way to be on time to school and your classes.

Put in the Time

Your work won’t get done instantly by itself. You need to spend some quality time on your school work in order to get it done, and get it done well.

Your school responsibilities won’t automatically get done by themselves. Time is a requirement for accomplishing any goal. You have to put in time to ensure that your tasks get done, and are done well.

You need to make sure that you set aside time for your homework, your projects, and any other assignments that you need to do.

If you’re consistently late to school because you don’t have enough time to get ready, you need to sort aside enough time that you know you need to get prepared.

If you need to write an essay, and you know that it takes you a long time to complete writing assignments, then you need to plan to spend a good amount of time on it. That’s the only way to get it done.

If you have a lot of reading to do, plan on blocking out a few (or more) hours to spend on it. That’s time that you need to spend actively reading, rereading, annotating, taking notes, writing down questions, and looking up the answers to extend your knowledge. You can’t just sit there with the text in front of you and magically expect yourself to comprehend it.

The Power of Urgency

Something important you need to know about being timely is minimizing the amount of time you waste. The more efficient and effective you are with your time, the less time you waste. If you can finish everything you need to do, then you’ll have more time for the things you want to do.

Acting with urgency is acting as if you need get things done AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. That means you’re working to get it done now. Even though getting it done eventually is better than not getting it done at all, getting it done sooner is much better than getting it later.

Being urgent means that you try to finish things as soon as you can. You act as if every moment counts (because it does). You spend your time wisely because you know that you’re running out of it. Chances are you have deadlines, so you might as well use them to your advantage.

Use Your Time Wisely

With the time that you’re able to reserve for yourself, you have to be able to use it wisely. That means you have to prioritize your tasks, make sure that you have enough time to do all of them, and start on the most important tasks first.

You know what you need to do. You know how much time you’ll need to do it. Doing anything other than that would be an unwise use of your time.

You know that watching TV, playing video games, or mindlessly browsing the internet or social media is not a wise use of your time.

Time management is a skill that everyone has to practice to maintain, especially you. It’ll take time and effort, but with consistent practice, you’ll get better at it. It might be a struggle at first to use your time wisely, but after a while, it’ll seem easier. It won’t be because what you do is easier, but that you’re actually getting better at it.