Adulting 101 is a workshop series through DMACC Counseling that helps students build confidence to navigate life and school.
College is hard, and life is even harder. I struggle with balancing life, school, and relationships, and these classes helped me realize I’m not alone. Last semester, these workshops began to help students with everything ranging from emotional regulation to personal boundaries. I’m struggling with both, and taking those classes could help me.
Adulting 101 was started by DMACC Counselor Shannon Peterson and her colleague. When they first started the workshop, they covered all the topics in a single hour workshop. They decided it would help more students to break the topics up and cover them throughout the semester. It helps students strengthen their emotional skills and helps give students a sense of confidence.
I do not have great time management skills, so I took a time management class! The Eisenhower Matrix helps with figuring out what’s most crucial to work on. It has different quadrants titled, important, not important, urgent, and not urgent.
We watched a video that showed that when you put your less important things in, you find yourself not having time to do the important things. You should prioritize important tasks, and less important ones, and activities that are just for “you” come afterward. It’s also important to create habits based on these important priorities that need to get done. We should figure out how to fit our habits into our daily lives while also focusing on the important things.
One thing that we need to realize is that discipline is a big part of time management. Thinking about your future helps you now. If you focus on the hard work now, then you don’t have to stress about it later. Self-care is very important to keep motivated for what we need to do. Time to yourself helps with burnout and allows you to focus on tasks later.
The 3-3-3 method can help with managing where your time goes. It starts with spending three hours on the most important task, three hours on smaller tasks, and three maintenance activities. The maintenance activities can include taking time for oneself.
Focus on four things when you are making changes: “building awareness, practicing curiosity, using non-judgment, while observing.” You need to build that awareness of what needs changing and what’s going wrong. You also should practice curiosity to make changes that could better you. All while observing and using non-judgment of the changes you are making.
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