One Step at a Time By Andrew Zelin

This week I experimented with the One Step at a Time strategy in two of my courses. The courses I used this in were SHR 247 and Accounting 252. I chose to use this strategy because I find boxes very useful when it comes to CLS strategies and I think breaking down a problem could be a good way of finding the possible solutions.

Because I am a visual and aural learner I love using different types of organization diagrams such as boxes and charts. For this experiment, the purpose (actions) is to isolate a problem, list the consequences, possible to do's, and will do, each in seperate boxes respectively. The materials for this experiment is just a blank sheet of paper. In SHR 247 I have a test on wednesday and the problem i listed was that I'm going home, I said the consequences are I have less time to study due to traveling, and the family could be distracting. For possible to do's I said I have to bring all my studying materials home, I have to create a new fritter finder that incorporates a schedule for the weekend and manually chose study times, and lastly I said I had to not allow my family to distract me. For will do wrote "not allow cousins to visit during study hours". I had an entirely different situation in Accounting 252. I had a quiz on Thursday directly following a major test on Tuesday. So in this case, I had to create during the week consequences, possible to do's, and will do.

My final evaluation of the One Step at a Time strategy is very positive. I enjoyed using this strategy. It helped me realize what I had to do way before I did anything. I like how it helped me plan out my weekend and my study hours. Organization is a huge problem with me, and I strongly believed this strategy alleviated some of those issues.