Ranking Priorities

What is the most important task I must accomplish first? Or should I just make sure everything is done by the next day? How can I not feel so overwhelmed with all my work at night? I have tried many strategies in order to try to finish my work in a timely manner at night. I have tried to just do my homework in the order it is written down, which takes forever and I have also tried splitting my homework up over the course of two nights. Splitting up my homework meant I would save some of the important items on my list for the last minute and not do it fully. I needed a strategy that would help me do the important things on my homework list and save the rest for another time.

Ranking my Priorities was the best strategy to help me. The first night I used it I had an overwhelming amount of homework. I looked at my list of homework and saw that I could use the ranking priorities strategy in order to gain a better knowledge of what homework I needed to complete first, second, third, fourth, etc. I had a biology test I needed to study for, reading for my sociology of health and illness class, the pre lab for my bio lab, and calculus homework I needed to complete. So looking at my list of homework, I decided to rank it from most important to least important in order to accomplish it in a timely fashion.

I realized I needed to study hard for my biology test so that was going at the top of my list. Second I knew my calculus homework sections were due the next day so I had to get those done. My CLS homework was not due for another couple of days so I could rank that after biology and math. Painting, sociology, and the biology prelab were not due for another day either, so I knew what I had to absolutely get done that night. I ranked biology A-1, calculus A-2, sociology B-1, PTG B-2, sociology B-3, Biology lab C-1, and CLS C-2.

I successfully completed the A’s and the sociology readings that night and was happy with what I had accomplished because I knew that I got the most important things on my list done instead of doing them all at one time. This strategy was extremely useful to me that night and has continued to work for me since. I feel less overwhelmed with work and more focused on which assignments I must complete each night.