I’m addicted to technology and time-management news! (Phew!) There, I’ve said it.
I love the tips, tricks, tools, and discussions offered on a variety of websites. This past month I’ve been fairly free to spend a good deal of time clicking around on these pages for fun in between my spurts of writing for a playwriting course and reading for an Art class I’ll be starting next week. But it’s finally caught up with me.
Today I’ll have to actually start attending class physically. Some classes don’t require this (creative writing) and so I’ve been able to churn out material at my own pace and largely avoid the taxing (yet important) task of physically going somewhere each day at a certain time. Today, however, I’m going to have to spend 2 hours every day sitting in a place that is NOT my home office. You can see the problems ahead for an addict like me can’t you?
As I understand it “fatherhood” will erase a good deal of my “personal time.” This will have a direct impact on my tech/time-management addiction. I need to not only spend my time more wisely, but also more productively. The great irony of all of this is that one of my greatest “time-wasters” are the time-management blogs designed to help people manage their time.
If anyone has got any tips they would be very much appreciated. Since we recently moved my home office is (finally) clean. If I haven’t said so already in this blog it’s worth the reminder that I’m currently a full time Ph.D. student. My status as a student takes up a significant portion of my time. Even my “free time” is often dominated by reading and writing for upcoming coursework when I’m not fulfilling my responsibilities as an instructor or graphic designer.
I know that graduate school is supposed to be hard. One of the first things they tell you when you arrive is that a significant number of marriages fail during graduate school. This is apparently at a much higher rate than the already astronomically high rate of divorce in the United States. I think that my fellow student and married friend Rodney responded to this information most intelligently. He laughed and said, “I’ll just drop out of graduate school.” While neither of us are planning dropping out a little time-management couldn’t hurt.
Bring on the tips in the comments.