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The two-week plan was an absolute game changer for me. It helped structure my day on an hour by hour interval. This led to a productivity level never before seen. Simply, the two-week plan eliminated the good old habit of ‘wasting time doing nothing useful’ and left me on my feet. Every night before going to sleep, I would look over the next day’s schedule to get a sense of what was coming up. Those few minutes spent glancing over my smartphone, looking at the day ahead, turned out to significantly impact my mental peace. By knowing what was coming up hour by hour, I felt a feeling not often felt as a student in university, in control. All of a sudden the mountain of assignments, quizzes and tests appeared manageable. The sense of panic and …show more content…

Such measure was not limited to tasks that were of academic nature but everyday errands fell to the same contemplation. When drawing up my two-week plan I had set a specific start and end time for every activity and ideally hoped to finish the task within the anticipated time frame. But life isn’t a smooth line, it’s a big ugly scribble. There were times when my homework took longer than usual to complete. As a matter of fact, that was the case majority of the time. In particular, when completing the CIV100 problem sets, I always went over my designated timeframe. In such cases I would take the step of eliminating pending tasks by order of priority in order to finish the problem set. An example of this is I did not do my ESP readings before going to bed. Instead I finished my problem set, went to sleep and woke up early in order to catch up on the readings I had missed. In terms of events or obligations, I was able to meet my friend at UTM, explore the pharmacology department and buy the extension cord that I most definitely needed. Now if asked whether I legitimately went hour by hour according to my schedule, I would say

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