--- title: "Time Management: The effective use of to-do lists" id: "3578" type: "post" slug: "time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists" published_at: "2019-05-07T12:06:24+00:00" modified_at: "2025-09-19T09:10:53+00:00" url: "https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/" markdown_url: "https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists.md" excerpt: "Are you struggling to keep up? Have you forgotten an important deadline? These are all symptoms of poor time management," taxonomy_category: - "BMH Blog" taxonomy_post_tag: - "Time Management" --- Are you struggling to keep up? Have you forgotten an important deadline? These are all symptoms of poor time management, which can be corrected with a prioritised to-do list. To-do lists can also change your life when dealing with multiple deadlines! **CREATING A TO-DO LIST** - Write down all the tasks you need to complete for the upcoming week or month - If there are large tasks, break them down into smaller tasks - Ideally a task or step should not take more than a few hours to complete - It may be helpful to compile a to-do list per module you are registered for, or one for personal tasks, and one for college tasks. Try different approaches and see which works best for you - Read through your list and allocate each task a priority rating - If you find that majority of your tasks have been allocated as very high, redo your list with a realistic and critical eye, looking for what is really high priority, and what can be safely demoted to moderate or low priority - Start making use of your list by working through the tasks in order of priority - Once you’ve completed a task in full, tick it off or draw a line through it - Once a day spend 10 minutes revising your list – adding anything new that has come up, reassigning priorities should things have changed etc *Source*: [Time Management](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/tag/time-management/) [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/) [https://x.com/share?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/](https://x.com/share?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/) [https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/&media=https://uat.boston.ac.za/wp-includes/images/media/default.svg&description=Time%20Management%3A%20The%20effective%20use%20of%20to-do%20lists](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/&media=https://uat.boston.ac.za/wp-includes/images/media/default.svg&description=Time%20Management%3A%20The%20effective%20use%20of%20to-do%20lists) [https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/) [https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/](https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-the-effective-use-of-to-do-lists/) [Newer NB vs urgent tasks](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/nb-vs-urgent-tasks/) [Back to list](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/) [Older Time Management: An Introduction](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) #### Related Posts [https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) 07 May BMH Blog ### [Time Management: An Introduction](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) Posted by **Natalie** 2025/10/06 [https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) [https://x.com/share?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/](https://x.com/share?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) [https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/&media=https://uat.boston.ac.za/wp-includes/images/media/default.svg&description=Time%20Management%3A%20An%20Introduction](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/&media=https://uat.boston.ac.za/wp-includes/images/media/default.svg&description=Time%20Management%3A%20An%20Introduction) [https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) [https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/](https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) [Continue reading](https://uat.boston.ac.za/blog/time-management-an-introduction/) [Close](#) #### Recent Posts - 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