Sam's Ants R Quick and Time Wasters By Andrew Zelin

This week in CLS 105 I experimented with two strategies. The "Sam's Ants R Quick and the Time Wasters Strategy. I experimented with the Sam's Ants R Quick strategy in Accounting 252 and I'm applying the Time Wasters strategy to all of my classes because my procrastination methods are the same for all of my courses. I chose to use Sam's Ants R Quick and Admitting the Consequences because I am a visual and aural learner. Because lecture attendance/surverying are incorperated in Sam's Ants R Quick and organization charts are incorperated in Time Wasters I thought both of these strategies would work well based on my learning style.




The first strategy I experimented with was Sam's Ants R Quick in Accounting 252. The first step I took to implement this strategy was surveying the chapter. I read the basic information, objectives, summaries, and questions at the end of the chapter prior to the class. This helped me become familiar with concepts like budgeting and cash distribution. The next step of this strategy was attending the lecture and paying attention to the key idea's from my chapter survey. I found that the pre-lecture chapter surveying greatly helped me follow what the professor was explaining. After class I read the chapter focusing on each section. In the margin's of the book I jotted down key terms in order to test myself on how well I understood the material. The final step of this strategy was creating test questions. I found that the test questions helped me determine which material I was strong on and which material I needed to further review. I loved the way this strategy familiarized me with material. This way when the exam comes around I won't be as confused when I study the material.



The second strategy I experimented with was Time Wasters. Again, because my procrastination methods are the same in each class, I didn't specify any class. The first step to experimenting with strategy is creating a two column chart with labels on each column. The labels are "Time Waster" and "Avoided Task(s)" respectively. In the Time Waster strategy I wrote down activities that cause me to procrastinate. Activities I wrote down are television, video games, browsing web, phone, gym, and fatigue. In the avoided tasks column I wrote down tasks that these things cause me to avoid. Lined up with the time wasters, I wrote studying for accounting, doing accounting homework, studying for strategic management, studying for strategic management, doing economics homework, and doing statistics homework. I like this strategy because by writing these things down, it made me realize how much of a problem this is. I am now more motivated to get work done.

Based on my visual/aural learning style both of these strategies worked incredibly. I plan on using Sam's Ants R Quick more in the future and thanks to the Time Waster's strategy, I am now much more motivated to get my work done.