Matching Pairs Adulting skills first stepsOnline version This matching game will have you link "adulting" goals to concrete actions you can take to build them into your life. by Erica Sausner 1 Planning maintenance healthcare and wellbeing activities. 2 Creating a budget 3 Identifying the kinds of time management skills you need to build. 4 Creating a new healthy habit. 5 Achieving a health, wellness, or productivity-based goal. 6 Avoiding procrastination. 7 Managing competing priorities 8 Make the best use of your time. 9 Avoiding deadline overload. 10 Staying motivated during boring work. 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. Tracking your spending for a week and tally your monthly expenses. Build "brain breaks" into your work time to allow for creativity and rest. 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. 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). Set small goals for yourself at the end of each day and work through those goals the following day. Use a time/activity tracker for a week then analyze your data. Identify your weekly priorities on a scheduling tool (calendar, tasks, to-do list, etc.). Find an accountibili-buddy: a friend who shares this goal and will follow up with you on your practice, success, barriers, and alternative approaches
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