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Effective Scheduling
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Scheduling means proper plan on how you have to spend your time (Stavrinides & Karatza, 2015). If scheduling is properly done, it can lessen your stress and maximize your effectiveness. Some steps need to be followed in the preparation of a schedule. For instance, the following steps should be followed strictly:
I. Available time should be identified.
II. Essential action is scheduled.
III. High-priority activities should be scheduled.
IV. Contingency time is scheduled.
V. Discretionary time is scheduled.
VI. The activities you want to do should be analyzed.
The steps above are key points when preparing a schedule for coursework.
After reading mind Tools, “Effective Scheduling,” I come up with a schedule of the activities of a week.
A week which contains seven days, I will need to prepare for all activities using the minimum time as possible. I can spend almost two hours of the whole week to schedule work for each week. My typical work hours begin from Monday to Friday. Scheduling for typical working hours is very tricky because some other times one might feel very weak to work despite it is a working hour. My normal typical working hours in a week is 40 hours. After I did proper time scheduling, I realized that is enough time for working and managing to go home in time for rest. In addition, I am able to maintain and create an efficient work schedule that enables me to work on the same number of hours in a week.

When working on a certain difficult or important project, I can increase those typical working hours to meet the deadline and produce my best.
Moreover, in the schedule plan, I need to include time for schoolwork each week. Out of the 40 typical working hours, I will buy some time on how to plan for my studies. In the schedule plan, I will indicate the time I should take to complete coursework and attend classes in addition to time for doing my class work each week. Accomplishing my school class work needs two hours daily. Attending classes requires a minimum of 4 to 5 hours daily thus weekly; almost 20 to 25 hours are required to achieve all the school activities (Stavrinides & Karatza, 2015). I do my classwork after the school, and immediately after completing home chores, I seat for my school homework. Roughly, I spend one to two hours doing my school homework.
Furthermore, my schedule plan cannot exclude personal and home activities each week. In this section, I need to include time for sleep and rest. Daily, I will allocate almost 6 to 9 hours for sleep and rest. Therefore, scheduling for all these activities needs to be assigned and one hour is enough to program for personal and home activities. It is very important to schedule for such activities that are essential in life. Therefore, it is vital to make sure planning all your personal activities includes some time for rest. Consequently, I need almost 1 hour to schedule for both personal and home activities.
I do prioritize my time each week in accordance with my set goals and importance attached to that activity. For instance, being a student my aim is based on good performance, and I need to prioritize my time in the schedule indicating how I will pass the examination it to align with my goals.
Reference
Stavrinides, G. L., & Karatza, H. D. (2015, August). A cost-effective and qos-aware approach to scheduling real-time workflow applications in paas and saas clouds. In Future Internet of Thingsand Cloud (FiCloud),20153rd International Conference on (pp.231-239). IEEE.