Managing your schedule means taking charge or taking care of it by managing priorities and revising tasks and times when events change. You have already learned to assign priorities to the tasks you build into your schedule. When things change, you will use those same priorities to consider and evaluate the impact of that change. Changes in your week may simply mean that you move around the order of tasks or activities with little influence on your goals.   But sometimes, changes may mean completely revising your schedule—dropping or adding activities, moving them to another day or time, or assigning more or less time to that task or activity.  

There are many reasons that you might need to change or adapt your schedule, and they are often outside of your control.  However, two very common threats to student schedule are almost entirely within your control: distractions and procrastination.  

You remember from your brain lessons that distractions are those people or things that draw your attention away from the goal or the task in front of you.  How you respond to distractions determines whether they interrupt your schedule or not. Procrastination, delaying your action until the last minute, almost always requires a schedule change. Together, distracters and procrastination can threaten your ability to keep your schedule and meet your priorities.