Avoiding deadline overload.
Planning maintenance healthcare and wellbeing activities.
Avoiding procrastination.
Achieving a health, wellness, or productivity-based goal.
Make the best use of your time.
Creating a budget
Managing competing priorities
Creating a new healthy habit.
Staying motivated during boring work.
Identifying the kinds of time management skills you need to build.
Dedicate your birthday date each month to prioritizing attending to these issues (e.g., my birthday is October 23, so on the 23rd of every month I could make a point to schedule doctors appointments, refill prescriptions, and complete a mental health journal activity).
Tracking your spending for a week and tally your monthly expenses.
Find an accountibili-buddy: a friend who shares this goal and will follow up with you on your practice, success, barriers, and alternative approaches
Classify your “to-do” list according to the kind of brain space you need. E.g., if you do your best thinking between 3 and 8 p.m., make that HW time; leave meal prep and exercise (less brain-intense activities) outside of that timeframe.
Use a time/activity tracker for a week then analyze your data.
Set small goals for yourself at the end of each day and work through those goals the following day.
Build "brain breaks" into your work time to allow for creativity and rest.
Identify your weekly priorities on a scheduling tool (calendar, tasks, to-do list, etc.).
Tie the new activity to a habit you already have. E.g., Writing in your journal while you eat breakfast.
Backwards map from due dates. Draw on your personal, academic, financial, and other values to identify "must do" and "should do" tasks.