Scholarship / 'interactive clubs at my school' - subjects in which you excel or have excelled [5]

We all have something that we excelled in, whether it is school subjects or communication skills but something that most high school students seem to struggle with that I feel I have excel in is balancing my curriculum with extracurricular activities, social life, families, and jobs. Most high school students are familiar with the lack of time and pressing deadlines. Overridden by the increasing flow of school works and other urgent dilemma, a student must learn to manage time effectively and efficiently. Unfortunately, there are no manuals or synopsis to which a particular student can adhere to for time management aid. To be efficient and productive as possible in time management, I had to set my priorities and manage commitment to my objectives. Time management is something that demand critical analyzing skills, therefore I had to put in recognition my time-wasters and determine the time in which I undergo my peak energy level in order to get tasks done quicker.

I am involve in many interactive clubs at my school where I have to be dedicated and devoted to the clubs' activities, most clubs events are usually the same day so I felt a necessity to re-evaluate my time management and schedule to a place where I could balance and fully devote my time to each club to avoid stress. A calendar is the main arsenal in time management because then I could arrange and plan my school works, clubs meetings, club activities, sport practices and meets, and work schedule in an array. As a National Honor society member, I am expected to demonstrate proficiency in the following areas: scholarship, leadership, service, and character, so I have to illustrate commitment to the club, my school, and my community in and out of school. This requires sacrificing my Saturdays to help others and it is something I adore and take pride in. National honor society is a club that takes the most involvement because we frequently go out in the community and help out, whether it is a car wash for fundraising to pay budgetary needs, working on community projects, making library bookmarks for the local elementary, or a moment to cherish with the erudite elders at Tuscany villa retirement home. I am also in Interact Rotary club and Key club, where every year we participated in a relay for life and many other communities inspired activities. Being in many clubs and other extracurricular activities such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club, Foreign Language Society club, soccer, track and field, and Cross country, I had to establish methods to utilize in order to ensure that my time was well managed. I had to create a management plan in which I could maintain study, family, personal life, work, social, community service, home duties in equilibrium. My family consists of seven children in whom I am the fourth, so I am depend on to care for my younger siblings. Sometimes I would have to cook and do chores, then go to work in the afternoon, it was vital to me to determine what tasks should be done first so I could manage a time to do my academic practices and care for the house and my siblings. Adopting new management skills is an essence in maintain counterbalance between all the activities in my life and something that I could put in consideration in the future.

During my high school career, I have come to realize that the best way to manage my time was to identify and learn what has wasted my time in the past. In order to do that, I had to logically analyze and evaluate my current management skills and isolate areas in which I need to improve. An adjustment on my management skills would requires controlling and budgeting my time to put it to better usage. Eventually, I had to gain control of my time in order to assess my time management skills which involve setting my priorities and goals. I began to set new goals, whether it is to accomplish tomorrow's upcoming assignment in 20 minutes, identifying my short term and long term goals has help me overcomes procrastination, which is a major factor in creating my success. Time management is critically essential in succeeding in life because in life, people encounter with multitasks that need to be done in an inadequate time and that mandate management and control of time to avoid any kind of stress, reduce pressure and procrastination.