How do you all balance schoolwork with clubs and afterschool

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I didn't.

Time management, they said.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, YOU SO FUNNY, I replied.

There are only so many hours in the day. You can't always do everything you want within that time period, so you have to leave some stuff undone. Time management isn't that hard. First you figure out the math part:

- 8 hours for sleep
- # hours for eating + shower + toilet + personal prepping
- # hours of school
- # hours home work/study

After you total that up, subtract the total from 24 hours, and whatever is left is what you have left for clubs, after school activities, computer games, surfing the web, TV, etc. The first batch of stuff is stuff you have to do daily, the second batch is stuff that is not necessary, but that you like to do. You can pick and choose among your likes, which ones you will do on a given day in the amount of time left over after you have done the necessary stuff. But you can't fit all your likes into that time on a daily basis, so you will have to "budget" your free time.

If you are having trouble getting everything done it means that you are trying to do too many things in not enough time, so you will have to cut back on your free time activities. Yes, it can be hard to do, but there is no way to grow the hours in a day, so you will have to cut back on the non essentials.

I suggest you start by ditching TV, as it is not the most wholesome or intellectual form of entertainment. That's why it's called the idiot box. Hang up the phone, and the texting/IMing. This eats up a lot of time on frivolous stuff. Then, go through your list of clubs. Consider limiting them to one club function a week. That may mean giving up some of the clubs. You also may want to limit school sports to one per school year.

Remember, the non essential stuff gets the free time left over after the necessary stuff is done, and there isn't enough of it to take on too many things, so you will have to make choices among these things.