• Do you define objectives you wish to achieve in the short and medium term deadline?

• Do you combine your academic obligations with other activities?

• Do you know how to rest (do you sleep more than 7 hours, do you do sports, take care of your friends...)?

• Do you prioritize the tasks you need to perform?

• Do you distinguish which activities are important and which are urgent?

• Do you use diary to schedule and time your activities?

• Do you have a realistic schedule with time to study, rest, be with friends, play sports...?

• Are you realistic when it comes to allocating your time?

• Do you know how to take advantage of waiting or travel times?

• Do you analyze whether you have completed the planned tasks in the allotted time?

• Do you identify the causes that make you waste your time?

• Do you have the willpower to study for at least 2 hours at a time without getting up?

• Do you set challenging goals to make every work slot intense and worthwhile?

• Do you know how to say no when what is proposed to you can waste your time?

• Do you focus on accomplishing the task at hand?

• Do you avoid activities that waste time or distract from the goal of the task?

• When you work, do you avoid logging on to facebook, reading email, using your cell phone or other distractions?

• Are you on time? That is, do you start and finish at agreement on schedule?

• Are you getting to the point?

• If the task takes you more time than estimated, do you schedule it to finish later and continue on schedule?

• Do you record the time spent on the task in order to compare it with what was planned and thus improve?

• You don't have clear priorities: tasks to be done, deliverables, exams...

• You do not dedicate enough time to rest (sleep, sports, hobbies, friends...).

• The work website is piling up on you.

• You never have time for anything, even if performance is low.

• You spend much of your time doing urgent tasks that are not always important.

• You put off matters until there is no choice but to solve them, then you act in a hasty manner.

• You do not set deadlines to perform a task or project.

• You draw up unrealistic schedules that prevent you from achieving what you planned.

• You don't know how to say "no" to the unplanned or to interruptions.

• You don't meet deadlines and have low productivity.

• You do not know how much time is spent on a task.

• You let your imagination wander instead of concentrating.

• You are always "on line", you check your e-mail, surf the web, check your cell phone when you are working...

• When you are working on a task you are thinking about the next one or the previous one.

• You spend a lot of time on irrelevant things and tend to beat around the bush.

• You neglect rest time.

• You don't finish tasks on time and continue on them leaving aside others that were scheduled.

• Name one person you admire for their ability to management time. What makes you think they manage their time well? What do you think is their trick?

• Do you dedicate 5 minutes to schedule your time at the beginning? Do you set challenging goals that motivate you to concentrate 100%?

• Do the hours of work/study work for you? Do you think they could work better for you? How?

• Do you spend some time periodically reflecting on how you could improve? Do you think about how you could work better?

• Do you focus when you work? Do you turn off the distractions that prevent you from working more intensely (cell phone, wifi, environments that do not facilitate concentration...)?

• Do you then analyze whether you have met the objectives?

• Do you often think about other tasks you have to do when you are working?

• Do you feel pressured to get things done (that you don't have time), why (because you need to plan better, because you have been distracted, because you got stuck on a task...)?

• Do you dedicate time for leisure, to do sports, to relax and do what you like with your family and friends?

• Do you dedicate time to culture and to cultivate yourself as a person? Do you incorporate in your diary activities dedicated to your training and to learning about issues relevant to your future work or to your personal interests?

• Are there any activities that you have given up to study (learning languages, playing sports, playing guitar)?

• When you isolate yourself from programs of study for a while, are you able to refocus when you want to get back on task?

Choose a way to organize your time and schedule your study and activities (diary, phone calendar, Google Calendar, mobile apps).
Think about your academic obligations (midterms, finals, assignments to submit) and plot them on a calendar.
sample Send your calendar to advisor and compare your impressions with it regarding how many hours are needed for each subject and how to distribute your time.
Also include the events of extracurricular activities and those carried out by the school that you want to attend.

Take some time to make a list of the tasks or milestones you need to accomplish during the coming week.
Make an estimate of the work needed to accomplish that task. Then assign a time duration to the task.
Arrange the lists in order of importance and time of submission (if applicable), prior to the completion of the study schedule .
Establish the weekly schedule indicating what you are going to dedicate to study for each task of the list previously made, considering time for rest and other activities that are in your calendar.
Check at the end of the week if you have been able to comply with the schedule.

After finishing a task, write down the time it took you to complete it.
Count the actual hours of the week and compare it with what you proposed at the beginning of the week.
Think about why there were deviations. Talk to your advisor to fix the deviations and make a better weekly schedule .

Tidy up the place where you are going to study. Remove distractions and leave only your study tools.
Set objectives or steps to accomplish a task.
Use a clock to manage the time you dedicate to study, as well as the breaks and their duration.
When you move from one task to another, take some time to adapt to the change of context.
When you see that you are not being productive, do not waste time and try to reorganize and resume the task when you are able.

Establish time for leisure activities, being with the family and rest and reflection on what you are going to do next week.
Take the opportunity to complete tasks that you have not been able to do, are incomplete or that demand more time than you have available in your weekly schedule .
Take some time to catch up with your subjects by reviewing your notes.

Talk to your advisor for advice on how to organize your time for each subject. Then, make two schedules: one that shows what you will study for the day, and a weekly schedule that is broken down hour by hour (the latter will need to be changed weekly).
Adjust your study plan according to whether you have advanced your study from your initial expectations or if you need more time to deal with a subject.

In your planning you cannot miss rest, which "is not inactivity, but the change of activity to a more pleasurable one" (Sarráis, 2013). This rest encompasses both the body and the mind.
To rest physically, observe whether you sleep enough and with quality, how are your eating habits and the sport you do. Plan an improvement in any of these aspects if you need it.
For the psychological, establish breaks from work with individual activities that make you enjoy (reading, walking, cooking, hobbies, etc.) and also collective (plans, team sports, etc.). This is essential if you do not want to be under pressure all day.

An optimal work , Kevin Majeres
All people want to work in a state of full attention to what they are doing, as well as to devote energies proportionally to what they are doing. For this, the concept of flow and ways to get there are presented.

Effective scheduling: planning to make the best use of your time
In a simple, step-by-step manner, it explains how to make a good schedule to follow.

How to multiply time
article by Nuria Chinchilla (IESE, 1999)

Time management: tips to better manage your life
Starting from the different causes that cause us to spend time unevenly, solutions are provided for each of them.

10 common mistakes in the management of time
Listed are the most possible causes for not meeting the deadlines we have set for ourselves.

Is this a "Morning Task"?
If we locate what time of day is our optimal time to work, we will be able to perform much better for all tasks 

10 tips to stop wasting time and become more organized

The Post-It Note Approach to Time Management, Joelle Jay
For day-to-day decisions and to organize ourselves to make our day more productive, it's helpful to know the five possibilities here

5 Amazing Tips for Better Time Management

First things first, Stephen R. Covey
The author of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People develops in this book his ideas to improve the capacity of management of time, as well as exposes different plans and methods to achieve deadline what we propose focused on the importance of priorities. See in bookshop

Focus: the science of optimal work, Kevin Majeres
This expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy explains the neural processes that occur when we are engaged in an activity, as well as how to devote more attention to it.

Four steps to successfully manage diary , Miquel Lladó
This video from IESE explains how to pursue our goals through the correct order of priorities and a correct schedule.

How to gain control of your free time, Laura Vanderkan
We never have time for what we really want to do... Or is it that we don't really want to do? This talk explains the elasticity of time and how to achieve the most important goals.

How to multiply your time, Rory Vaden
After analyzing the different methods of management of time, Rory Vaden has developed one that makes up for the shortcomings of the others, and he develops it in this talk.

Inside the Mind of a Master Procastinator
In an entertaining way, this talk explains how people who procrastinate by default act and the consequences that this brings.

The Martian, Ridley Scott
Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is stranded on Mars and must survive until the next spacecraft arrives. Both he and NASA must manage the time they have in order to ensure Mark's survival, such as finding food and water, and preparing a mission statement that can bring him back before it's too late. IMDB Fact Sheet

Trapped in Time, Harold Ramis
This film, which is almost a classic, serves to reflect on the value of time and how not managing it properly can affect other people's lives and our own. IMDB profile

Google Calendar

Study time tracking templates and schedule. download Excel

Post-It notes. They are used to make a list of tasks, assign a time and then prioritize them.

Evernote and Any.do. Applications that allow you to create quick notes and to-do lists. Allows synchronization between cell phone and computer.