Divide by Four

In order to manage your tasks and help your task management use divide by four. This simple but helpful strategy will help you take a task and break it apart to more easily get it done. This task will help eliminate procrastination since it will be broken into smaller more manageable pieces.

What you do to dive by four is split the task into (1) prepare (2) start (3) continue (4) finish. This can be used in any class for anything from papers to projects to studying for tests. I used it for my WGS 203 log and my MAT 122 test.

What I did for my WGS log was first I prepared by reading the article and thinking in my mind ideas that could work for this article. Then I started by writing out an outline for myself. Then to continue I wrote a paragraph at a time for each part of my outline which completed my paper and finally to finish I proof read my paper. This got this paper done very quick and helped me avoid a lot of wasted time I might of procrastinated with.

I also used this for studying for MAT 122. The steps I broke my studying into was (1) I set out all my notes and broke the studying down into chapters and topics (2) I read over the textbook chapter by chapter taking a small 5 minute break after each chapter (3) I continued by doing practice problems from each chapter as well taking little breaks after each section (4) Finally I finished studying by taking a practice test and grading myself to make sure I was prepared.

This is a great strategy for Kinesthetic learners like myself because you can write out and visualize what you need to do. This is also good for visual learners. This is a great strategy that

can help anyone out with managing big tasks that they need to accomplish.