You don’t want to get paralyzed at the start of the school day by the range of things you could be working on: math quiz, history presentation, first draft of the social studies essay.
If you start your day by engaging with a critical task, you should end your day by preparing for that task.
Place on your desk, computer desktop, or near your study area the items related to the task.
For example, if you’ve identified articles or websites you’ll use to write that essay, open these as separate tabs in your browser.
If you’re going to make flashcards to study for the math quiz, place the index cards and colored markers you’ll use to make them in your study area.
There are two benefits to this strategy.
First, you can dive right into your priority task as soon as it’s time to study.
Second, because you know what you’re working on at homework time, you might have some creative ideas during the school day to include in that presentation because you’ve organized your thoughts and developed a study plan.
