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Assignment:
A study plan will help you identify where your distractors are, which take away from your study time. Dr. Michael W. Kirst explains the top 5 study distractions and how to overcome them. However, do you have personal distractions that seem to shift your focus from your studies? Sometimes, you realize you are getting distracted, but other tasks can be a habit of not wanting to focus on what is needed, or procrastination has set in.
This assignment is to help create for yourself a study plan focusing on your distractors. Make a list of items that keeps you from working on your homework. Is it your phone, friends, games, children, housework, employment, or procrastination? Make a list of anything you would consider a distraction and identity how to trigger to identify that you are becoming distracted to get your focus back on your course work. Add to your list how to remove distractions from your study area before you start. Last, how do you have a distraction-free environment?
Instructions:
Complete the following steps:
First, a list of your distractors. The format of the list can be Word or Excel.
Distractor
- How will you trigger awareness that you are becoming distracted
- How to refocus on your classwork from the distraction
- How to remove the distractor from your study area
Give a summary of the distractors you have identified, whether you will use your identified triggers to refocus during your study time, and your plan to have distraction-free environment. Do you think you will follow the plan you just established?
Make sure you cite any references used in your document.
Once your timetable and summary are completed, follow the instructions under submitting your assignment to submit the completed document(s).