Problem: Article: Tell your time management students to structure their time using an electronic or paper planner. Advise them to start by planning out their short-term tasks. Show school students how to budget time each day for homework. For instance, on a Monday, they might do math homework from 4:00 to 4:45, study for history from 5:00 to 6:00, have dinner, then draft an essay from 7:00 to 8:00. Professionals should similarly plan their daily tasks, which vary widely by industry. For example, a product designer might check and respond to emails from 8:30 to 8:50, have a conference call from 9:00 to 9:30, and draft blueprints from 9:30 to 12:00. In addition to daily and weekly schedules, the should also keep track of the bigger picture with a long-term calendar. Have school students keep track of unit tests, term papers, and other long-term projects on a calendar. Suggest that they use colored markers or draw asterisks to call attention to important dates. Long-term tasks for a professional might include quarterly sales goals, project deadlines, business trips, or bill due dates. Instruct your time management students to sort their daily and weekly tasks into categories based on urgency and importance. For categories with multiple items, they should list tasks from highest priority to lowest priority. Urgent and important tasks need to be completed immediately. For example, if a project is due tomorrow, it's urgent and immediate. Important but not urgent tasks need to be on the agenda, but don't need to be completed right this minute. For instance, a deadline next month isn't as important as one tomorrow. Painting your bedroom walls might be important to you, but it doesn't require your immediate attention. Urgent but not important tasks might include phone calls, texts, emails, and other disruptions. They're urgent in the sense that they require your attention but, unless they involve an emergency, they're lower-priority items. Tasks that aren't important or urgent are primarily distractions, like browsing social media or watching TV. While everyone needs time to relax, downtime isn't a task with a pressing deadline. Everyone procrastinates at some point, so help your time management students develop strategies to stay on track. Tell them to start by making sure their workspace is free of distractions. If they're tempted to play on their phone, they should keep it out of sight, such as in a bag. If they surf the web when they should be working on their computer, they could use an app, such as the SelfControl app, to temporarily block distracting websites. Suggest that they reward themselves for completing tasks as scheduled. For example, if they finish their science lab report, they can play video games for 30 minutes. Most people put off tasks that seem overwhelming. Suggest that they break up unapproachable projects into smaller, more manageable steps. If a student needs to write a 15 page paper, they could outline it, then work on 2 to 3 page sections per day. Tell your time management students that they shouldn't set the bar low, but they should accept that no one is perfect. Trying to achieve perfection is unrealistic, and obsessing over a task is counterproductive. Suggest that they set a realistic time limit for a task and use checkpoints to stay on track. For instance, they might budget 1 hour for a homework assignment or work report. After 30 minutes, they should be halfway through the project. Remind them that they shouldn't dwell on finding perfect word choices for a short essay that doesn't count for much of their grade. Likewise, a professional shouldn't spend 20 minutes drafting an email about a trivial topic. Wasting time trying to find things in a messy workspace is counterproductive. Encourage your time management students to stay organized by: Developing a filing system or keeping important papers in folders. Storing office supplies in designated spots. Putting things away immediately after using them. While planning is the foundation of time management, it's still important to be flexible. Unforeseen responsibilities will come along and render a to-do list obsolete. Recommend that they leave around 25% of their time open for unexpected tasks. For example, a homework assignment could be more difficult than expected and take an extra 20 minutes. An urgent project might come up at work and take priority over all other tasks.
Summary: Explain how to develop daily and weekly schedules. Advise your students to keep a long-term schedule. Describe how to set priorities. Give tips on dealing with procrastination. Discuss the pitfalls of perfectionism. Remind your students to keep their workspace organized. Mention the importance of building flexibility into schedules.

Problem: Article: Making it through the campaign is not a real indicator of your skills in multiplayer, but struggling with it is a definite sign that you won't be among the online elite. These are significantly harder than the easier difficulty levels, and will prove reasonably challenging even to semi-seasoned Halo players. If you can, play through the entire campaign, but you don't have to if you only want a basic evaluation. Ask yourself some basic questions about your performance, and be honest with the answers. If you answer "no" to any of the following questions, you are very likely still a noob. Could you make progress easily without having to try to die several times fighting the same wave of enemies? Did you always have a good sense of where to go and how to read your radar? Were you able to effectively manage your ammo and other resources? Were you able to drive the vehicles without falling off cliffs or rolling over?
Summary:
Select campaign mode. Start a new campaign and choose "heroic" or "legendary" difficulty. Try to play through the first few stages at least. Think about how difficult the campaign was for you.