If you’re not so good at time management, don’t worry! You can practice a few different ways to work it into your routines:

• • Know yourself and your habits. If you study best at night, for example, leave that time open on your calendar and stick with it!
  • Practice prioritization. If you’re the one putting the calendar together, you can change it too – resist! If 7:00pm to 8:00pm is time spent studying, practicing your sport, or relaxing, treat it the same as you would a class or appointment: unchangeable, except in an emergency.
  • Consult an agenda or calendar regularly. This makes it easier to visualize your time management, reducing stress further and helping you assess the feasibility of your strategy.

Time management reduces stress by giving you more control over your day. Strong organizational habits make it much harder to stress over difficult assignments, upcoming games, or big projects; they allow you to react to the work itself, rather than the time you need to find to do it. Smart compression can make it even easier to stay organized and keep focused! And once you start putting in that work, you will be amazed at how much easier working can be.