E-portfolio: Time Management & Organizational Skills

Time Management & Organizational Skills

by Dr. Mohamad Azmi Nias Ahmad

( Modul 4 )

" Whatever you do, you must start it when you believe in yourself ", this is the quote that i got from my lecture time. As a person, we have to make a right choice so, we will never regret of what decision we made. Especially, when we have to decided to success or not? yes, every person must say that they want to success but what's the efforts to make them success in something they want? For a student like me, time management and organization are the most important things that we have to manage it wisely. We must have a plans, schedule and arrangement for everything that we do.

Why time are so important to us as a human?

Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w yang bermaksud:

“Tidak akan berganjak kedua kaki seorang hamba pada hari kiamat melainkan ditanya dahulu tentang empat perkara, tentang umurnya dan untuk apa dihabiskan, masa mudanya bagaimana ia mempergunakannya, hartanya dari mana ia memperolehinya dan untuk apa ia membelanjakannya dan tentang ilmunya bagaimana ia memanfaatkannya”.

“Demi kebesaran dan kemuliaanku, tiada sembahyang seseorang tetap pada waktunya melainkan aku memasukkannya ke dalam syurga. Dan barangsiapa sembahyang di luar waktu, maka jika aku kehendaki, aku menghormatinya dan jika aku kehendaki, aku mengazabnya”.

- Riwayat al-Tabrani -

Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda yang bermaksud ;

“Rebutlah lima perkara sebelum datang lima perkara, usia mudamu sebelum tua, masa sihatmu sebelum sakit, masa senangmu sebelum papa, masa hidupmu sebelum mati, dan masa lapangmu sebelum sibuk.

So, that are the reasons why time are important to us and we can't argue with that. On top of that, there are a lot of strategies that a person can do based on their creativity. These is some of strategies that are useful for students; ( DAWAS )

Daily planner - according to hours
Academic vs Personal life - have to balance for both
Weekly schedule - plan weekly activity
Avoid procrastination - will not rush at the last minute
Semester calendar - easier way to remember

Every student must have their own to-do-list. It's because to make sure their time will be manage wisely for the things that are important to do and also bring goodness to ourselves. It's based on the people whether they want to do daily schedule, weekly schedule or monthly schedule.

This is the example of weekly schedule

But as a student, i know it is a little bit hard to follow this strategy at the first. We must do it continuously until end of the semester to get the result of effectiveness. The question is, how to make this strategy happens without any distraction?

These are the way to overcome this problems to make the strategy happen :

Remind back for your goals
Alert to deadline, it's better if you put some note to remind the deadline of your assignment
Prioritized on the works that you may have to be done
Give a self rewards ; for example - you can eat a chocolate for every chapter that you have learned

All of these can give a some spirit for students to do it earnestly and will not to procrastination because our mental thinking is the first one that we have to control to make our body do its works.

Procrastination, what is procrastination?
- Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing some works that actually we have to do.

How can procrastination occur?
It is because ;

Organization are also important to make sure the things we do are always organize. As evidence, a notes that we take from our lecture time. It must be organize so that, we can easily find it back whenever we want to use it as reference for examination or do an assignment.

How to be organize?