Learning the Basics: Scheduling
Mar. 12th, 2019 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzyredI am back again with my weekly post. I missed last week due to lack of motivation but I am actually on top of things this week so I had spoons for this post. Yay!
This week I looked into breaking tasks down into manageable pieces and scheduling. I also took a brief look at conflict resolution, though I will go back to that in more detail at a later date.
This site was very helpful for giving step-by-step instructions to make something big easier to accomplish. I feel like this will be useful for many different things in my life right now, though I'm going to take a crack at it with language learning first.
Step 1: Look at the Big Picture
I would like to be fluent enough in French to hold a casual conversation with a native speaker at moderate speeds. (I speak really fast in English and have heard some very rapid French speakers. At the moment, I would be happy with medium-speed communication; not super quick but not painfully slow.)
Step 2: Examine the parts of the task and come up with a step-by-step plan
combined with
Step 3: Think about the logical order of completing the tasks
-Practice Daily
-Increase my Vocabulary
-Improve my Grammar
-Work on more complex sentences
-Find conversational partners
-Read French books for additional comprehension practice
Step 4: Create a Timeline for Completing Your Tasks
I don't really have an idea for this one, because it is middling priority on my list. I don't have an end date that I want to be fluent by. However, I am going to try to complete one lesson a day on , or as many lessons as I can do in 30 minutes if I am having a good day. I guess this also sort of Step 5: Have a Plan to Help You Stay on Track
The final step, Leave Time for a Final Review, doesn't really apply in this case, but is good to keep in mind for me since I do tend to procrastinate on most things.
Hey, this wasn't so hard. Maybe this will actually be helpful for doing more of the things I want to do. Now to stick to the plan...
Scheduling your day sounds like a lot of work, but I do think it will come in handy in the future, once I actually sit down and start scheduling things. Of course, I need to then find time to schedule my days but it does sound worth it. I don't think I like the idea of having the day scheduled down to the minute but it might be helpful to write in the big things and approximate time expected to complete them. This will be a work in progress, like most things. :p
As I said earlier, resolving conflict will have to wait until a later time for more attention but this was a helpful article to read. It really puts the emphasis on remaining calm and working towards finding a solution rather than staying upset and angry. It is also almost entirely foreign to me since I grew up in a house where just about every disagreement turned into a shouting match. I'm also not sure what to do if the other person isn't willing to take time apart to calm down.
Many "disagreements" with my sister turn to shouting and I don't know how willing she would be to walk a way from something small to calm down. Me needing to walk away from a heated discussion about why I don't like it when she takes my things without asking would almost definitely seem silly to her, since it is just a "trivial thing" and not that hard to deal with.
It is definitely food for thought and something that I think I will come back to more than once as I try to figure out how to effectively handle disagreements and express myself.
I learned some new things this week and am feeling rather accomplished. I hope you learned something too, whether from this post or just on your own. Anybody learn astrophysics lately?
This week I looked into breaking tasks down into manageable pieces and scheduling. I also took a brief look at conflict resolution, though I will go back to that in more detail at a later date.
This site was very helpful for giving step-by-step instructions to make something big easier to accomplish. I feel like this will be useful for many different things in my life right now, though I'm going to take a crack at it with language learning first.
Step 1: Look at the Big Picture
I would like to be fluent enough in French to hold a casual conversation with a native speaker at moderate speeds. (I speak really fast in English and have heard some very rapid French speakers. At the moment, I would be happy with medium-speed communication; not super quick but not painfully slow.)
Step 2: Examine the parts of the task and come up with a step-by-step plan
combined with
Step 3: Think about the logical order of completing the tasks
-Practice Daily
-Increase my Vocabulary
-Improve my Grammar
-Work on more complex sentences
-Find conversational partners
-Read French books for additional comprehension practice
Step 4: Create a Timeline for Completing Your Tasks
I don't really have an idea for this one, because it is middling priority on my list. I don't have an end date that I want to be fluent by. However, I am going to try to complete one lesson a day on , or as many lessons as I can do in 30 minutes if I am having a good day. I guess this also sort of Step 5: Have a Plan to Help You Stay on Track
The final step, Leave Time for a Final Review, doesn't really apply in this case, but is good to keep in mind for me since I do tend to procrastinate on most things.
Hey, this wasn't so hard. Maybe this will actually be helpful for doing more of the things I want to do. Now to stick to the plan...
Scheduling your day sounds like a lot of work, but I do think it will come in handy in the future, once I actually sit down and start scheduling things. Of course, I need to then find time to schedule my days but it does sound worth it. I don't think I like the idea of having the day scheduled down to the minute but it might be helpful to write in the big things and approximate time expected to complete them. This will be a work in progress, like most things. :p
As I said earlier, resolving conflict will have to wait until a later time for more attention but this was a helpful article to read. It really puts the emphasis on remaining calm and working towards finding a solution rather than staying upset and angry. It is also almost entirely foreign to me since I grew up in a house where just about every disagreement turned into a shouting match. I'm also not sure what to do if the other person isn't willing to take time apart to calm down.
Many "disagreements" with my sister turn to shouting and I don't know how willing she would be to walk a way from something small to calm down. Me needing to walk away from a heated discussion about why I don't like it when she takes my things without asking would almost definitely seem silly to her, since it is just a "trivial thing" and not that hard to deal with.
It is definitely food for thought and something that I think I will come back to more than once as I try to figure out how to effectively handle disagreements and express myself.
I learned some new things this week and am feeling rather accomplished. I hope you learned something too, whether from this post or just on your own. Anybody learn astrophysics lately?
