LibGuides: Adulting 101: Time Management & Work/Life Balance

Intro to Time Management & Work/Life Balance

Welcome to the Time Management & Work/Life Balance Guide!

Between jobs, school, extracurricular activities, hobbies, spending time with family, and having an active social life, finding time for everything can be difficult. Learning to prioritize tasks and planning out how to spend your time most effectively is a vital skill to develop. This also helps with finding and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Doing so can help reduce stress in your daily life and prevent burnout.

What You'll Learn:

Tips for managing your time wisely so you can accomplish important tasks.
How to balance your work life with your personal life to minimize the impact they have on each other.
Methods of destressing, to prevent burnout.

Video Presentation

Downloadable Resources

Daily Planner
A daily planner you can use to schedule your day and prioritize tasks.
Eisenhower Matrix
Use this template to determine the urgency and importance of different projects to prioritize what you need to accomplish.
Pomodoro Technique
This time management method uses 25-minute intervals of working, separated by short breaks to reduce interruptions on your work flow.
Productivity Hacks
This document includes our productivity cheat sheet, examples of how to utilize the 1-3-5 rule, and information on "eating the frog".
Time Management Presentation
This PDF contains the presentation from our Adulting 101 session on Time Management.
Top 5
This is a planner you can use to organize your top 5 priorities, which one you will be focusing on, additional items on your to do list, and what you can postpone till next week.

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Intro to Time Management & Work/Life Balance

Welcome to the Time Management & Work/Life Balance Guide!

What You'll Learn:

Video Presentation

Downloadable Resources