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The BIGGEST Productivity Hack for Students – Set Your Own Deadlines - Never Stress a Project Again
Stressed, anxious or worried about submitting your projects to a high quality ON TIME? Let’s learn the BIGGEST productivity hack for students. Setting your own deadlines.
If you’re a student, I’m just going to go ahead and assume you’ve been in this situation before . . .
You’ve got a submission coming up – but there’s still a few weeks to go.
You decide to work on it closer to the date. You convince yourself that you’ve got PLENTY of time and don’t have to worry about it yet.
As the days go past, ever so fast, you soon come to a sudden realisation.
“Crap.”
You find yourself cramming out as much work as you can in the last days before the submission.
The final result of your work?
It’s OK. . .
But, if only you had some extra time, could you produce a better project.
I tend to find that no matter what the due date is, most students end up saying they didn’t have enough time.
It doesn’t matter if it’s due in 1 week, or 6 weeks. The bulk of the work of the submission tends to get done in the last 15% of the time you have before the deadline.
While some students claim that “I work better under stressful conditions” – I don’t think this is a deliberate strategy for their submission.
But, what if – say, you made your own deadlines that are due before the actual due date?
What if, instead of leaving your work for the last week, you tell yourself that the due date is instead 1 week earlier. You hold yourself accountable to this and believe that’s when the due date is.
If you trick your mind into thinking the due date is 1 week sooner, do you think your work would be any worse?
In most cases, the quality of the work would be exactly the same. The amount of time spent on the project would be exactly the same.
But guess what? Now you’ve got an extra week to fix any mistakes, ask your teacher or friends for some feedback and make any adjustments before handing it up. You have time to prepare your presentation, reconsider your layout or change something up.
By creating your own due dates, before the actual submission deadline, you’ll find yourself in a much better situation and you can finally take charge of the work you produce, rather than letting time limit the potential of your work.
Prefer watching/reading? Check out the show notes:
https://successfularchistudent.com/productivity-hacks-for-students
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By Kyle Sinko
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Stressed, anxious or worried about submitting your projects to a high quality ON TIME? Let’s learn the BIGGEST productivity hack for students. Setting your own deadlines.
If you’re a student, I’m just going to go ahead and assume you’ve been in this situation before . . .
You’ve got a submission coming up – but there’s still a few weeks to go.
You decide to work on it closer to the date. You convince yourself that you’ve got PLENTY of time and don’t have to worry about it yet.
As the days go past, ever so fast, you soon come to a sudden realisation.
“Crap.”
You find yourself cramming out as much work as you can in the last days before the submission.
The final result of your work?
It’s OK. . .
But, if only you had some extra time, could you produce a better project.
I tend to find that no matter what the due date is, most students end up saying they didn’t have enough time.
It doesn’t matter if it’s due in 1 week, or 6 weeks. The bulk of the work of the submission tends to get done in the last 15% of the time you have before the deadline.
While some students claim that “I work better under stressful conditions” – I don’t think this is a deliberate strategy for their submission.
But, what if – say, you made your own deadlines that are due before the actual due date?
What if, instead of leaving your work for the last week, you tell yourself that the due date is instead 1 week earlier. You hold yourself accountable to this and believe that’s when the due date is.
If you trick your mind into thinking the due date is 1 week sooner, do you think your work would be any worse?
In most cases, the quality of the work would be exactly the same. The amount of time spent on the project would be exactly the same.
But guess what? Now you’ve got an extra week to fix any mistakes, ask your teacher or friends for some feedback and make any adjustments before handing it up. You have time to prepare your presentation, reconsider your layout or change something up.
By creating your own due dates, before the actual submission deadline, you’ll find yourself in a much better situation and you can finally take charge of the work you produce, rather than letting time limit the potential of your work.
Prefer watching/reading? Check out the show notes:
https://successfularchistudent.com/productivity-hacks-for-students