Time Management Process Analysis

I got my first job mid-October this was the induction of junior year and at the time; managing school and work was not particularly difficult. As time progressed, time management became a serious issue that would go on to affect my grades and mental state. Brockton High school is a very prestigious school and compared to other schools of similar size such as Durfee High school in Fall River our curriculum and performance is far superior. Taking honors classes only adds to the tremendous workload provided by the school. Being the immature sixteen year old I was, when hours began to add up at work my grades began to decrease. Throughout my schooling, I have been able to maintain a B average in most of my classes but with the added responsibility,
I was losing control. Stores are typically busy during the holiday season and Target is no acceptation. When I started working, I would average a measly twenty hours a week but as time progressed, I began to average close to forty hours a week. The typical shift I received would be from 4:00pm to quarter of ten and I would not get home from work until quarter past ten. Getting home so late gave me little to no time to get my homework done, which on average would take up to three hours to complete as each major class at this school usually provides students with an hour’s worth of homework daily. At first, I would try to complete the homework and sacrifice hours of desperately needed sleep, staying awake painstakingly working until I fell asleep with an open book in my lap. Harvard completed a study where they discovered there is a correlation between sleep and students grades. As living support of this study, I spent nights staying up late to finish homework and managed to worsen my grade rather than improve it because I would score poorly on important quizzes and tests. The reason my test grades were egregiously poor, was I would be so tired when doing the homework it was fortunate to comprehend and remember it when I woke up. After weeks of sleepless nights, I made the decision to do no homework for a while and decided to perform well in class because homework is only worth ten percent of your grade. This only harmed my grade rather than helping once again because I would still score poorly on tests and quizzes for lacking experience with and knowledge on the topic. My parents eventually tried to become involved and forced me take a day off during the week in order to catch up on all my missed work, this helped me moderately but my grades were still nowhere near where I wanted them to be. In order to make a progressive change in life you must want to make the change for yourself and cannot allow others to influence your choice.
I eventually had an epiphany and realized how immature I was behaving and what steps were necessary to being making a change in my life for the better, This newfound philosophy of mine began to dominate my life and the change I needed to make were my time management skills. The clock began to tyrannize my daily activity, there was not a moment I was unaware of the time and in the foreground of my mind I would ponder what assignments I had for the day and when to complete each one. I became so time obsessive often I would find myself making time and working on projects for as little as fifteen minutes at a time. For example I practically sprinted to the café each day inured to be one of the first in line I then would scarf down my food and begin working aggressively on homework for the remainder of the lunch period. My maturity had a great effect on my life. My grades were back to normal and by the end of fourth term my failing grades transformed into passing grades and I was extremely proud of myself. The biggest lesson provided by this experience was time is everything. Before gaining maturity I was a complete imbecile through gaining responsibility my life forced upon me maturity I am thankful for this because I am now an adult mentally rather than just
physically.