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Managing stress through
organizing tasks

It is how people respond to stress
that determines whether they will
profit from misfortune
or be miserable.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Croatian/American 1934 -

• Learning to learn
• Managing time
• Managing stress
• Creating a to-do list
• Prioritizing tasks◄
• Avoiding procrastination
• Thinking critically
• Thinking like a genius
• Developing self-discipline
• Motivating yourself
• Solving problems
• Developing your school budget

In the exercise below, enter three tasks you need to accomplish
in order to organize and prioritise your tasks, and reduce your stress.
(If you cannot access the exercise, follow this text exercise:

1. Develop each task into three steps.
   If each task has less, no problem.

2. Organize!
   Re-arrange each of the steps from earliest due date
   (1 or highest priority) to those further out (12 or less).

3. Print and post as a to-do list.

Flash exercise contributed by Mike Grinberg and Dr. Brad Hokanson, Interactive Media (DHA 4384) School of Design, University of Minnesota and edited by Joe Landsberger.

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