Your Time is Money

Are you a student who finds yourself procrastinating? Well you are not alone, according to the University of Calgary psychologist Piers Steel, between 80 to 95 percent of college students are considered procrastinators (Novotney,2017)

Being a procrastinator can be detrimental to your quality of work and is something that needs to be overcome if you are trying to be a pro at time management. One of the best pieces of advice for overcoming procrastination I have been able to find was by Sydney Love, she is the author of Mastery and the Management of Time. She says that our time is so valuable that we should be able to put a monetary value next to it. In other words, if you are wasting your time sitting on your phone scrolling through Twitter or Instagram you are wasting two things: Time and Money. (Love,1978)

But some might say how do you figure that I am wasting time and money by just doing nothing? Well the truth is that you can always be working, whether it by doing an actual job for pay or doing school work. For example, if you work at McDonald’s and make $15 an hour, then you could put an hourly value of $15 on every single hour that you are spending procrastinating. Now if you are a full-time student who is working your time has just become even more valuable because you are also paying for tuition on top of the time that you could be working.

As you can see our time as students is very valuable and we do not have very much to waste.

Novotney, A. (n.d.). Procrastination or ‘intentional delay’? Retrieved September 30, 2017, from http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2010/01/procrastination.aspx

Love, S. F. (1982). Mastery and management of time. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.