Individual Assignment

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

Personal Development and Study Methods

BM006-3-0-PDSM

SECTION A: TIME MANAGEMENT & MOTIVATION

SECTION B: THINKING SKILLS

Lecturer Name: Neda Jebellie

Intake number: UCFF1503CT (G1)

Submission Date: 22 June 2015

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Table of Contents
Section A: Time Management and Motivation .......................................................................................................................................1
TIME MANAGEMENT WORKSHEET ................................................................................................................................................2
Section B: Thinking Skills .........................................................................................................................................................................4

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Section A: Time Management and Motivation

Time management and motivation is the way of how people plan for their time every day or every week. Some people may have
already plan their time table for the whole year. Time management is the process of organizing and planning how much time you
spend on specific activities. Invest some time in our comprehensive collection of time management articles to learn about managing
your own time more efficiently, and save yourself time in the future. I will need to make out a time table for the following week and
see if the time table is able for me to achieve my short term goal and my long term goal for this semester in this school.

APPENDIX A
TIME MANAGEMENT WORKSHEET

Time Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

7:00 Sack time Wake up & Wake up & Sack time Wake up & Wake up & Wake up
preparation preparation preparation preparation &
preparation
8:00 Sack time Going school Going Sack time Going school Going Going
school school school
9:00 Wake up & ITA course Mathematic Wake up & EAP course Personal BM course
preparation preparation Skill
10:00 Playing ITA course Mathematic Playing EAP course Personal BM course
computer computer Skill
11:00 Playing Personal Skill EAP course Playing Communication ITA course BM course
computer computer skill
12:00 Having lunch Lunch & break EAP course Having Communication ITA course BM course
lunch skill
1:00 Revision Revision /Doing Having Revision Having lunch Having Having
/Doing homework lunch /Doing lunch lunch
homework homework
2:00 Revision Communication Rest & Revision Rest & shower Mathematic Rest &
/Doing skill shower /Doing shower
homework homework
3:00 Revision Communication Revision Revision Revision Mathematic Revision
/Doing skill /Doing /Doing /Doing /Doing
homework homework homework homework homework
4:00 Work out & Rest / Revision Revision Work out Revision Work out Work out
dance /Doing & dance /Doing & dance & dance
homework homework
5:00 Work out & Having dinner in Work out Work out Work out & Work out Work out
dance school & dance & dance dance & dance & dance
6:00 Rest & Street Dance Club Rest & Rest & Rest & Shower Rest & Rest &
Shower Shower Shower Shower Shower
7:00 Having Street Dance Club Having Having Having dinner Having Having
dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner
8:00 Playing Street Dance Club Playing Playing Playing Playing Playing
computer computer computer computer computer computer
9:00 Playing Rest & Shower Playing Playing Playing Playing Playing
computer computer computer computer computer computer
10:00 Prepare to Prepare to sack Prepare to Prepare to Prepare to sack Prepare to Prepare to
sack Time Time sack Time sack Time Time sack Time sack Time
11:00 Sack Time Sack Time Sack Time Sack Time Sack Time Sack Time Sack Time

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ANALYSIS

Attending school course: 23 hours

Playing computer games: 16 hours

Revision /Doing homework: 13 hours

Work out & dance: 10 hours

Attend club activity: 3 hours

Time Distribution
On the next few weeks, I have spent about 23 hours attending the course in school in TPM and also spend almost 16 hours on the following week
on playing computer games and relaxing. Basically, I will spend about 16 hours doing my school homework which is given by our school lecturer.
For example, like doing the assignment and the assessment that given by our school teacher. Besides that, I will be spending another 4 hours by
doing some workout and also practice dancing. At last, I will be spending another 3 hours on school’s club activity that I have taken part in.

Therefore, after statistics the time I have used in daily routine, I will be spending about 3.29 hours per day on attending school course, 2.29 hours
on playing computer games. I will also spend about 1.86 hours on doing homework and revision, 1.43 hours on doing some work out and dancing
and finally 0.43 hours on attending club activity.

Goals
After making this timetable, I found that I will be having trouble in my schoolwork, because I’m spending more time on playing computer games
than doing revision and also school homework. As a result, I have made my own long and short term goals. The long terms goal for me in this one
year on taking foundation in IT course is getting a 3.5 CGPA (cumulative grade point average). The reason why I made this goal is because, after I
finished my foundation course, I can apply some good scholarship which can help to reduce my parent’s burden. Besides that, getting a 3.5 CGPA
will help me increase the employments opportunities in my future, although I could not use the foundation certificate to apply a large company
work, but it also will help me to get a good work after me getting my degree certificate.

Beyond that, my short term goal for this semester is that I can get a 3.0 GPA and also finish my assignment as soon as possible. In order to
achieve this goal, based on the time table that I have made, I have to reduce my hours on playing computers game by increasing the revision time.
This will help me to understand more what I have learnt in tutor class and also lecturer class and also I have more time to settle my assignment.

But, although I have made this timetable, as a human, I will also been lazy to follow the timetable. Because following timetable have to become a
very discipline and also have a strong willpower person. I know I am not that kind of person because I have failed to discipline myself on spending
too much of time playing computer games, but to achieve the goals that I have set, I will do my best to become a more discipline and strong
willpower person to achieve the goals.

Conclusions

In the conclusion, this timetable let me figure it out why I have failed so many times on my secondary school time, now I have knew my own
mistakes and I will learn from it. Therefore, I will discipline myself and also spend more times on doing revision and assignment than playing
computer games that will be wasting my precious time.

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Section B: Thinking Skills

Fred loves clothes. His favourite activity is to go shopping at the mall and try on new clothes. He looks forward to the day when he
has a job so he can buy all the clothes he wants.
Next week is Fred’s birthday and he will receive $75.00 for his present. He saw a pair of jeans at the mall that were $72.00; however,
he also needs new shirts, new shorts, and some swim trunks for the summer. His $75.00 could purchase all of these things or it could
purchase the one pair of designer jeans.
All the kids at school wear these jeans. Fred states, “If only I had a pair of these jeans, I would be popular.” How could Fred make a
wise decision? What would you do?

SIX THINKING HATS

1) Blue Hat

First is the blue hat, the meaning for the blue hat is defines and outlines the problem under question and guides the other hats
through the thinking process. Fred conceptualizing let him choose on the off chance that he needs to utilize the cash to purchase another pair of
pants or purchase summer garments. He means to settle on an insightful decision, so he won't think twice about it.

2) Black Hat

After that is black hat, the black hat is pessimistically and realistically confronts the solutions pinpointing holes, dangers, flaws and
inadequacies in the proposed plans. Fred utilized his cash to designer jean, and then he will confront no new garments to wear in the
mid-year. In the meantime, he won't consider respected his companion on the off chance that he utilizes the cash to purchase new
garments. The choice has its own particular points of interest and detriments. Fred, they ought to make a choice.

3)Red Hat:
Furthermore, red hat is intuitively reflects on the solutions and selects the best course of action based on its feelings and hunches. He
thinks that if he bought summer clothes, because he needs in the summer but he also believes that he bought the designer jeans, his
will become famous in school. He felt difficult to make a decision and feel upset.

4)White Hat:

After that is the white hat is collects all the facts, data and statistics relevant to the problem. It will then use this information to reach a
set of possible logical neutral solutions. Fred tries his mother decided to collect some comments or suggestions. He asked the opinion
whether to buy summer clothes or designer jeans, so he can form a wise decision to spend his money.

5)Green Hat

In additional, the green hat definition is takes solutions and ideas brought forward by the yellow hat and enhances them in a creative,
unique and original way that helps ensure that they succeed as planned. Fred can have some conversation with his parents about the
problem he is facing and he plan to find a job to earn money to buy designer jean for himself. With this he can use the money given by
his parents to buy new clothes for summer.

6)Yellow Hat:

At last there is the yellow hat is looks beyond the black hat’s pessimism and brings to light logical optimistic ideas and plans of action
that will help counteract these dangers. Fred's mum bought the designer jeans to him .because she don't want Fred delay the
studies .He can use the money for the summer outfit first.

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