Good argument. I would add this additional motivator:
You may already have examples in your life where you have set a regular schedule, no matter how mundane. Going to bed, waking up, when you go to lunch, going to the bank...whatever they are. Use the experience you've gained in setting up and following previous schedules to create new schedules. Here's one I used to use: when I was in college each night before I went to bed I would take a sheet of paper and fold it once lengthwise (or use the other side of a previously folder sheet). Then I would write out a check list of my schedule for the next day...when I would wake up, when each of my classes was, when I would practice my viola, when I would go to the library to study, when my meals were, etc. I credit this one habit with getting me through my college years with a reasonable sense of consistency. There was something about writing down what I had to do that made it easier to actually do it.
On Oct 13, 2014 Clifford Young wrote:
Good argument. I would add this additional motivator:
You may already have examples in your life where you have set a regular schedule, no matter how mundane. Going to bed, waking up, when you go to lunch, going to the bank...whatever they are. Use the experience you've gained in setting up and following previous schedules to create new schedules. Here's one I used to use: when I was in college each night before I went to bed I would take a sheet of paper and fold it once lengthwise (or use the other side of a previously folder sheet). Then I would write out a check list of my schedule for the next day...when I would wake up, when each of my classes was, when I would practice my viola, when I would go to the library to study, when my meals were, etc. I credit this one habit with getting me through my college years with a reasonable sense of consistency. There was something about writing down what I had to do that made it easier to actually do it.