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1.) Effectiveness is only about being efficient:
2.) Effective individuals focus on getting trivial busywork finished first in order to have time to focus on important tasks: FALSE, effective indivuals know that when they finish thier most important tasks first, which usually take up the most time, then it is easier to focus on finishing the rest least important tasks. For example, I hate doing homework, house chores, and grocery shopping. If I decide to tackle the groceries and house work first, which are trivial, then by the time i sit down to do hours of homework I am too tired to think straight. It makes it seem so much more daunting.
3.) Tasks which other people think are important should always be designated as your high priority items: FALSE, sometimes tasks that other people think are less important are usually on my list of most important tasks. For example, some people would think that going to a 12-step meeting everyday is less important than spending quality time with the family. But for me, I need to keep up with my spiritual/emotional/and physical sobriety by going to meetings, or else my family won't want me around because I'll be a wreck.
4.) Essential activities and central concerns should comprise your high priority list: TRUE, the keyword here is esential and central. If these activities are very important in my life and have a high impact on me, then I should place them as most important in my high priority list. Effective individuals tackle these important activities first so that they have the energy remaining to finish any trivial activity.
5.) Making Things To Do Lists is a total waste of time: False, Making To Do Lists can help a person get organized and start on the right foot. If a person can't even remember all of their tasks that they need to do, then they won't be able to decide which is the most important to start first. For example, I write lists for everything, even though sometimes I don't even use them. But it gets the task that are racing through my head out on paper, so I can visibly see them in black and white. Then I won't have to worry about "oh yea, don't forget to do that! Oh yea, dont forget to call her!" With it on paper, it is out of my mind.
6.) Effective people tend to be disorganized because that contributes to their creativity: FALSE, effective people are usually organized to point of being anal because it is a good environment to work in. For example, if a wedding planner (who should be effective in general) took sloppy notes, has papers crammed into her desk in stacks of nonsense, can never remember phone numbers because she writes them down and forgets to store them later on, and doesn't keep a daily planner, then she wouldn't be in business anymore because people would see how ineffectively disorganized she was.
7.) Breaking a large project into duable chunks or steps is an excellent strategy to avoid feeling overwhelmed: TRUE, effective indivuals break huge projects into chunks or steps because it is less threatening than it would be as one big monster. These steps can also serve as an organized plan, by finishing part A, then part B, and then lastly part C. It has order, which them lessons the burden.
8.) Effective people spread their focus and do multiple important tasks simultaneously: FALSE, people who focus on doing multiple tasks at one time are not effective people because they can easily get overwhelmed and stuck, like on a huge project that should be cut into duable chunks or steps. Instead, they should focus their attention on doing one task at a time, by starting with the most important.
9.) Effective individuals always strive for perfection:
FALSE: People who strive for perfection, and of course don't succeed, are bound to be let down and discouraged to try again in the future. Effective individuals know their limits, and also know what to strive for in order to reach for their limits. Of course, I personally think that a person should aim for the A, or perfection, because their is still a chance of reaching it. Why only strive for a B when I might eb able to obtain an A?
10.) It helps to schedual tasks to correspond to your personal body rhythms:
11.) Unfortunately, it is impossible to make productive use of time you spend waiting:
12.) Effective people spend most of their time dealing with tasks that are urgent but not important:
13.) Attitude change follows behavior change:
14.) Memory enhancement strategies work well even if you are not paying attention:
15.) Long, unbroken study sessions are superior for learning and retention over study periods interspersed with short breaks:
16.) Sleeping after studying helps consolidate the material you have reviewed:
17.) Paraphrasing your study notes only contributes to interference with memory:
18.) In order to do well on a test you need to be completely calm and relaxed:
19.) On multiple choice tests, correct answers tend to be longer, more detailed, and specific:
2.) Effective individuals focus on getting trivial busywork finished first in order to have time to focus on important tasks: FALSE, effective indivuals know that when they finish thier most important tasks first, which usually take up the most time, then it is easier to focus on finishing the rest least important tasks. For example, I hate doing homework, house chores, and grocery shopping. If I decide to tackle the groceries and house work first, which are trivial, then by the time i sit down to do hours of homework I am too tired to think straight. It makes it seem so much more daunting.
3.) Tasks which other people think are important should always be designated as your high priority items: FALSE, sometimes tasks that other people think are less important are usually on my list of most important tasks. For example, some people would think that going to a 12-step meeting everyday is less important than spending quality time with the family. But for me, I need to keep up with my spiritual/emotional/and physical sobriety by going to meetings, or else my family won't want me around because I'll be a wreck.
4.) Essential activities and central concerns should comprise your high priority list: TRUE, the keyword here is esential and central. If these activities are very important in my life and have a high impact on me, then I should place them as most important in my high priority list. Effective individuals tackle these important activities first so that they have the energy remaining to finish any trivial activity.
5.) Making Things To Do Lists is a total waste of time: False, Making To Do Lists can help a person get organized and start on the right foot. If a person can't even remember all of their tasks that they need to do, then they won't be able to decide which is the most important to start first. For example, I write lists for everything, even though sometimes I don't even use them. But it gets the task that are racing through my head out on paper, so I can visibly see them in black and white. Then I won't have to worry about "oh yea, don't forget to do that! Oh yea, dont forget to call her!" With it on paper, it is out of my mind.
6.) Effective people tend to be disorganized because that contributes to their creativity: FALSE, effective people are usually organized to point of being anal because it is a good environment to work in. For example, if a wedding planner (who should be effective in general) took sloppy notes, has papers crammed into her desk in stacks of nonsense, can never remember phone numbers because she writes them down and forgets to store them later on, and doesn't keep a daily planner, then she wouldn't be in business anymore because people would see how ineffectively disorganized she was.
7.) Breaking a large project into duable chunks or steps is an excellent strategy to avoid feeling overwhelmed: TRUE, effective indivuals break huge projects into chunks or steps because it is less threatening than it would be as one big monster. These steps can also serve as an organized plan, by finishing part A, then part B, and then lastly part C. It has order, which them lessons the burden.
8.) Effective people spread their focus and do multiple important tasks simultaneously: FALSE, people who focus on doing multiple tasks at one time are not effective people because they can easily get overwhelmed and stuck, like on a huge project that should be cut into duable chunks or steps. Instead, they should focus their attention on doing one task at a time, by starting with the most important.
9.) Effective individuals always strive for perfection:
FALSE: People who strive for perfection, and of course don't succeed, are bound to be let down and discouraged to try again in the future. Effective individuals know their limits, and also know what to strive for in order to reach for their limits. Of course, I personally think that a person should aim for the A, or perfection, because their is still a chance of reaching it. Why only strive for a B when I might eb able to obtain an A?
10.) It helps to schedual tasks to correspond to your personal body rhythms:
11.) Unfortunately, it is impossible to make productive use of time you spend waiting:
12.) Effective people spend most of their time dealing with tasks that are urgent but not important:
13.) Attitude change follows behavior change:
14.) Memory enhancement strategies work well even if you are not paying attention:
15.) Long, unbroken study sessions are superior for learning and retention over study periods interspersed with short breaks:
16.) Sleeping after studying helps consolidate the material you have reviewed:
17.) Paraphrasing your study notes only contributes to interference with memory:
18.) In order to do well on a test you need to be completely calm and relaxed:
19.) On multiple choice tests, correct answers tend to be longer, more detailed, and specific: