Managing Your Time
In response to anisnaqiyah:
I am only naming the main things, I have not mentioned any social events, any projects, assignments, homework, own revision, own notes and personal hobbies that I also do in my almost-no-free-time. But you get the big picture of what I'm trying to point out and yes all of this was in 2010 alone. Thanks to my mum for giving me the motivation and always supporting and being positive, sending me to school each morning and picking me up at random hours. If not for her, I'm sure I wouldn't have made it that far. In other years I had different commitments, maybe related.
After my little story, I would advise the best way to organise your time is to know your priorities. Always carry a little book for you to write anything you need to do. Plan your day, your week and your month. Wake up knowing what you need to do each day. If you don't get to follow exactly as planned, then its ok. Happens to me many times. You just need the drive and realisation on what you need to do, then focus on getting it done. Sometimes, you lose focus and don't have the mood to do something. Don't force yourself. Its not worth it because you won't produce good quality work. I had 9 subjects to study for and 21 papers to sit for, alhamdulillah all A+. It not impossible, it requires persistance, hard work and also pray to Allah. Try to perform solat hajat everyday especially when your exams draw near. Read motivational books and success stories, they really inspire you because those people remind you that its possible. Keep a distance from negative people/ narrow-minded ones who always try to belittle you or tell you otherwise. Remember that the more you study, the more people can feel threatened and they may do/say things to make you feel demotivated. Brush it away, have confidence in yourself, remember God and let Him punish/decide what to do to them. You just need to focus on your life because its too precious for those kind of people. Wake up early each day and try to have enough sleep. Exercise and keep fit, trust me exercise really helped to elevate your mood and prevent body aches and sickness. Eat healthy food and always allocate enough time to eat well and sleep well. Don't ever ignore these 2. Put a reminder on your phone for important or urgent things. Just live your life everyday saying to yourself that 'I will maximise this 24 hours' and just do it. Don't overthink and don't let a moment pass by in the day feeling bored with nothing to do. That's one of the principles in my life.
Believe in yourself because if you don't, nobody else will.
Finally this post has come to an end. I hope that this motivates you and helps you in a way. Let me know if there are any blogpost requests and I'll try to write more. Till then , take care!
13 Mar 14, 08:08 PM
anisnaqiyah: oh I forgot to tell something :p all students at my school should take 10 subjects so I take sc pure+acc |
13 Mar 14, 07:52 PM
anisnaqiyah: salam kak  wanna ask u some ques how u manage ur time to study,homework,tuition,school activities ? btw i'm form 4 ,asmarian and i love to read you blog ! its really help me a lot ! |
Hello everyone, hope you are having a nice week. Anyhow, the weekends are just 1 day away. Speaking of time, Malaysia is now only 7 hours ahead of UK because last Sunday we had the 'Daylight Savings end' thingy which made me so confused last year. Its now early Spring and I like being outdoors in the day because the weather is starting to warm and beautiful flowers are budding.
Time flies so fast and while we only have 24 hours a day, we always hear people saying 'I have no time' or 'I wish I had more time' but in both cases, that is impossible because everyone does have time and it is up to us on how well we manage the time we have each day of our lives.
Speaking of time management, let me start by sharing a story with you about my final year of school. As this blog was created only after I finished school (before SPM results) you might want to know how I managed my time on my SPM year. Ok let's start.
In January, it was basically the start of the year and also my birthday month. I had my birthday bash at RedBox since it was the last year of high school. SPM revision has not started too intensely at that time since we were still learning our Form 5 syllabus. I started group tuition in Chemistry and Physics at the beginning of the year to brush up my form 4 & 5 knowledge. Other than that, I had school from 720- 230pm each day followed by co-curriculum activities from 3-430pm and since I lived quite far from school plus the rush hour, I usually reached home by 6 or 7pm.
My tuition would be at night like at 8/9 pm once or twice a week. I like to spend more time to study independently so I didn't go for too much tuition or seminars.
Speaking of extra-curricular activities, you must be very surprised to hear my commitments because at times, I am surprised myself. I was the Secretary of the Prefectorial Board (equivalent to Student Body in some schools). Being a prefect is busy enough because you have duty almost everyday, spend the extra minutes before school to pin up all your badges and name tags, bring your blazer and wear your tie, miss a few minutes/hours of class due to duties and come extra early on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for briefing at 7am(if I'm not mistaken). Being the Secretary of this organisation is even busier. I write out meeting minutes at least twice a week, then go back home and type it out. File it then send it to Mr Tan, our discipline teacher to sign. If there are any mistakes or anything I typed that he is unhappy about, then I would have to re-type it. There are 80 plus prefects and luckily we had a Secretary assistant. Each month, we would collect every single prefect's blackbooks' (the book they use to write disciplinary issues of students everyday) and we would split it into 2. I would carry it all home, then type it all out then stamp and sign everybody's blackbooks. My dad created the Excel spreadsheet that our school is using today. If not we would still be writing out the disciplinary issues which is more tiring.
The stamp and signing part was fun because the school provided a special stamp with my name, followed by my position and school name. It looked so professional as if I was already working hehe. These are the things that motivate me to continue my job- me thinking how lucky and how fun it is to do all this. If not how do you think I was motivated every single day and month to do all my duties and study and do homework and go for tuition at the same time. I also had this handy dandy notebook with a big spiral and a shiny green pen that I would use to record meeting minutes, so everytime I had to write I would have a good feeling because then I could use that notebook. I also have duty at the main entrance every alternate mornings. I don't exactly do anything there, just monitor the prefects but still I have to be there till 8am which means I miss out the start of some classes. But we prefects, have this loyalty to the board when we signed up and I would bear the challenges for the honourable position and certificate at the end of our service.
Other than that, I was also the President of the Debate Club. This is a totally different story and not related at all to the previous. We had iced blended sales, face-painting ( my ideas after discussion with the committee on how to raise funds and I thought it would benefit us financially and also be fun!) during Sports Day, IU Day, I also organised BLADES Cup (an annual competition that students of different English based societies would another for a friendly debate- I wonder if they are still having the cup till today??? because I bought a really big and nice trophy for it). I still have more to say but let's proceed to my next commitment. I was also the Secretary of Temenggung (the Blue Sports team in my school), list goes on collect books to be signed by teachers. Other than that, I was appointed the Secretary of Girl Guides ( Renjer Puteri) but unfortunately I had to let down that post because there is a rule in school that you cannot be the Secretary and President of 2 different organisations at the same time. Of course, our special Student Body was an exception and did not apply to that rule because we went through thorough interviews ( I had 1 interview to become a prefect then another interview when the teachers nominated me as Secretary) and background checking to make sure we were suited for that role regardless whatsoever activity we decide to take part in.
The stamp and signing part was fun because the school provided a special stamp with my name, followed by my position and school name. It looked so professional as if I was already working hehe. These are the things that motivate me to continue my job- me thinking how lucky and how fun it is to do all this. If not how do you think I was motivated every single day and month to do all my duties and study and do homework and go for tuition at the same time. I also had this handy dandy notebook with a big spiral and a shiny green pen that I would use to record meeting minutes, so everytime I had to write I would have a good feeling because then I could use that notebook. I also have duty at the main entrance every alternate mornings. I don't exactly do anything there, just monitor the prefects but still I have to be there till 8am which means I miss out the start of some classes. But we prefects, have this loyalty to the board when we signed up and I would bear the challenges for the honourable position and certificate at the end of our service.
Other than that, I was also the President of the Debate Club. This is a totally different story and not related at all to the previous. We had iced blended sales, face-painting ( my ideas after discussion with the committee on how to raise funds and I thought it would benefit us financially and also be fun!) during Sports Day, IU Day, I also organised BLADES Cup (an annual competition that students of different English based societies would another for a friendly debate- I wonder if they are still having the cup till today??? because I bought a really big and nice trophy for it). I still have more to say but let's proceed to my next commitment. I was also the Secretary of Temenggung (the Blue Sports team in my school), list goes on collect books to be signed by teachers. Other than that, I was appointed the Secretary of Girl Guides ( Renjer Puteri) but unfortunately I had to let down that post because there is a rule in school that you cannot be the Secretary and President of 2 different organisations at the same time. Of course, our special Student Body was an exception and did not apply to that rule because we went through thorough interviews ( I had 1 interview to become a prefect then another interview when the teachers nominated me as Secretary) and background checking to make sure we were suited for that role regardless whatsoever activity we decide to take part in.
I am only naming the main things, I have not mentioned any social events, any projects, assignments, homework, own revision, own notes and personal hobbies that I also do in my almost-no-free-time. But you get the big picture of what I'm trying to point out and yes all of this was in 2010 alone. Thanks to my mum for giving me the motivation and always supporting and being positive, sending me to school each morning and picking me up at random hours. If not for her, I'm sure I wouldn't have made it that far. In other years I had different commitments, maybe related.
After my little story, I would advise the best way to organise your time is to know your priorities. Always carry a little book for you to write anything you need to do. Plan your day, your week and your month. Wake up knowing what you need to do each day. If you don't get to follow exactly as planned, then its ok. Happens to me many times. You just need the drive and realisation on what you need to do, then focus on getting it done. Sometimes, you lose focus and don't have the mood to do something. Don't force yourself. Its not worth it because you won't produce good quality work. I had 9 subjects to study for and 21 papers to sit for, alhamdulillah all A+. It not impossible, it requires persistance, hard work and also pray to Allah. Try to perform solat hajat everyday especially when your exams draw near. Read motivational books and success stories, they really inspire you because those people remind you that its possible. Keep a distance from negative people/ narrow-minded ones who always try to belittle you or tell you otherwise. Remember that the more you study, the more people can feel threatened and they may do/say things to make you feel demotivated. Brush it away, have confidence in yourself, remember God and let Him punish/decide what to do to them. You just need to focus on your life because its too precious for those kind of people. Wake up early each day and try to have enough sleep. Exercise and keep fit, trust me exercise really helped to elevate your mood and prevent body aches and sickness. Eat healthy food and always allocate enough time to eat well and sleep well. Don't ever ignore these 2. Put a reminder on your phone for important or urgent things. Just live your life everyday saying to yourself that 'I will maximise this 24 hours' and just do it. Don't overthink and don't let a moment pass by in the day feeling bored with nothing to do. That's one of the principles in my life.
Believe in yourself because if you don't, nobody else will.
Finally this post has come to an end. I hope that this motivates you and helps you in a way. Let me know if there are any blogpost requests and I'll try to write more. Till then , take care!
assalamualaikum,kak :) thanks a lot for this post!! u help me a lot. :) may allah bless u ! and wish me luck ;)
ReplyDeleteWaalaikumsalam Anis Naqiyah. Your most welcome. All the best!
Deletethanks!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteallah bless!
:) your welcome
ReplyDeletehey sis (i just call u sis since others calling you by that xD)...i just read your article on time management..to be honest i am really impressed by your ability to manage your time wisely and efficiently..i just can hardly believe myself for saying i dont have time for anything after all these years unlike you who apparently busier than me when u were in high school...btw i'm in my form4 this year and still doubting myself whether i could learn everything in 1 and a half year (i guess xD) before spm..i hope u could post more of your inspiring experiences and best of luck to u in life..:)
ReplyDeleteaww thank you for this kind message. Sorry I did not respond earlier. I am sure I read this but forgot to reply. Sometimes accidentally miss out replying some messages I receive. But I still appreciate them all :) Even this is a few years later, it still means a lot. Thank you and all the best in life to you too. Take care.
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