These techniques will ultimately help students develop a comprehensive time management plan. If students don't have established goals, it's equivalent to being on a ship at sea without a rudder. An example of a macro goal would be to graduate 18 months after returning to college, while a micro goal may involve completing a reading assignment for a particular class. As simplistic as it may sound, it is essential to establish both macro and micro goals and to monitor one's progress toward achieving those goals. Planning and organizing are different concepts.
Planning can be as simple as listing activities and events on a time line.
Organizing, on the other hand, is the sequencing of individual planning steps into a prioritized game plan. It is easy to find any number of forms in books on time management that permit one to plan activities, just as it is equally easy to find daily or weekly planners. What is important is that one organize the individual events into a prioritized plan. Initially, it is imperative that students monitor their time to identify what they are doing and how long it is taking. Frankly, many students do not realize how much time they waste until they keep a log of daily and weekly activities to establish an activities time line.