PPP Task//Time management workshop

Our workshop today was one of two and was on time management. The whole idea of how we manage our days individually.
To start with Fred spoke to us a little and gave us some examples, basically saying how we all think that just because we have been in uni a whole day doesn't mean we've spent it in the right way or done any work at all. The idea that if you have a bad start to a day, it will keep on running throughout the day and you'll get nothing done.
From this we looked into our days more detailed,  by categorising what we do within a week and then adding a percentage to this, this in itself showed me how much time i do actually spend on doing certain things, majority things that don't help me with what i actually need to get done in the day!
We then discussed this as a group and pooled all our categories together, which Fred made a list in three categories; course specific, domestic, social.
These are the 3 main categories which your day to day things comes under and these are the three things that you need to balance throughout your day. Basically you can't spend your whole time doing work for the course, it will make you a worse designer and you won't be able to make decisions, see things differently and just be more tired in the long run. You have to have down time and time away from the work, so when you come back to it, its fresh and you can work at a better standard. This is were the social and domestic elements come in, these are what you do in the other times of your day, things you want to do and things you need to do. Getting the balance right between these three is essential; doing work 24/7 can effect your social life, leading to you losing friends and having nothing at the end of it or you just because a unsociable person and lose all the social skills you have to meet new people etc. Also vice versa, socialising too much means you don't get your work done and therefore don't pass the course. GETTING THE BALANCE IS CRUCIAL.

So after discussing these categories we then went back to the sheets and filled in the same one but had a separate sheet for each category, making it more detailed and this time working out how long in hours we spent on this given subject. This again showed how much you actually spend doing a certain thing each week.
I defiantly found out that i spend too much time doing work and not enough social things we i need to change!

We have now been set a task that for the rest of the week, we have to do a daily to do list a weekly planner and a day to day planner. These must be filled out the night before and then we have to record what we actually do within that day, to see if stick to the plan we made and to see if this actually helps in our organisation.