Sometimes - it would seem - that losing your way in the middle of a project and not doing as much as you should be doing proves helpful. Because, for the last two weeks that’s been exactly me. I’ve never to date hit that 16 hours a week, but now I’ve decided it’s about time to make sure I’m working towards it. So since that the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing about 4 – 6 a week, it’s time for me to be doing more.
10 hours a week.
Yes, I’m making the commitment right here right now, in the big dark expanse of cyber space, that I’m going to do 10 hours this week. Passing the course is a no-brainer, but passing the course well is a different point entirely. It’s time I put into action a little bit more action, and started working towards 16 hours a week.
I don’t feel that this week it’s important for me to talk about what I’ve been doing, as I just want the fact that I’m going to make more of an effort to take my time planning more seriously the central theme of this post. It’s not that I haven’t been taking time planning seriously, it’s just that I’ve been grossly underestimating the amount of time I need to put in to pass the course well.
Plus, it isn’t just about passing the course, don’t we all want to be employed at the end? Do we not all want to be good enough after two years to actually take a career up in web design, self employed or not?
I know I do, and it’s time I started showing it by putting the hours in at home.
I don’t want to leave this course after two years with straight passes.
Simple as.
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I had similar problems in the first assignment, Craig. I found that making a simple chart in Excel of a long term time plan for this project helped. In your mind the project seems huge, but when you put it down into small parts week by week it is manageable.
As long as you get your main chunk of work out of the way for the week, you will stay on track. This will then free up time for the more dynamic pieces of the course, like finding inspirational work or doing additional research.
Maybe think about setting your self a reward for when you have finished doing a chunk of college work? Maybe get your friends/family to enforce it upon you.
Thanks for the advice Julian.
It's something to consider, getting people to enforce it. But that sort of defeats the object of me teaching myself to do it, if you know what I mean.
I'm using Google calender at the moment, and it's working wonderfully.
Agree with Julian about the long term time plan. Although didn't have one for the first assignment, made one for these ones and its really helping. It also helps when making your time sheets for the week as you can see instantly what your main tasks are to do that week, then break it down into smaller chunks and add in the micro level planning. 16 hours seems like quite alot of hours a week to do, but it's less hours (likely) than a full time job. I realise you work which may cause problems fitting in the hours but have you tried making a time plan including your work and social hours to help with the time planning?
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