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 Identifying the kinds of time management skills you need to build. 2 Creating a budget 3 Planning maintenance healthcare and wellbeing activities. 4 Staying motivated during boring work. 5 Avoiding deadline overload. 6 Managing competing priorities 7 Avoiding procrastination. 8 Creating a new healthy habit. 9 Achieving a health, wellness, or productivity-based goal. 10 Make the best use of your time. 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). Identify your weekly priorities on a scheduling tool (calendar, tasks, to-do list, etc.). Set small goals for yourself at the end of each day and work through those goals the following day. Find an accountibili-buddy: a friend who shares this goal and will follow up with you on your practice, success, barriers, and alternative approaches Tie the new activity to a habit you already have. E.g., Writing in your journal while you eat breakfast. Tracking your spending for a week and tally your monthly expenses. 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. Build "brain breaks" into your work time to allow for creativity and rest. Use a time/activity tracker for a week then analyze your data. Backwards map from due dates. Draw on your personal, academic, financial, and other values to identify "must do" and "should do" tasks.
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