COST

My experience with work throughout my courses is that I am not particulary good with the preparation leading up to the paper. Although understanding of the issue or topic of the assignment is not an issue, it may come across as if I don't understand what's going on in the assignment due to lack of proper preperation. Once introduced to the COST(Cost Options Schedule Test) strategy it helped layout some issues, posssible options by which I can go about solving those issues, chossing the best option, and then giving myself a time frame to allow for the method to produce results. Since I haven't beeen graded on much thus far in my courses I chose to work to Change things that were more habitual in my work patterns. In the following picture you can see the things I chose to work on:
The image is my application of the method, we can walk through an example. For something that I wanted to Change, I chose my "not being aware of what's due or going on in the next scheduled class." For possible Options for this issue, I chose A."Place priorities on assignments over other things" because I like to do personally satisfying things over my work very often, and B."Get engaged in the assignment early" that I will have a good understanding of whats going on when it's actually time to do it & it will also help keep me interested throughout the process. In the Schedule category, I chose option A. Finally for the Test section, I allowed myself 1 week to produce results. I have been doing this method for about a half a week now and it has worked wonders. Not only does this help, it brings awareness to one's faults and I can catch myself faster when I am doing these things.