{"id":480,"date":"2026-04-12T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/?p=480"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:09:06","slug":"try-a-checklist-to-help-stay-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2026\/04\/12\/try-a-checklist-to-help-stay-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Try a checklist to help stay organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly trained professionals like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preflight_checklist\">airline pilots<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WHO_Surgical_Safety_Checklist\">surgeons<\/a> use checklists to make sure they complete each essential task. You can use checklists to help stay organized with your essential tasks and due dates. Here are a couple of simple checklists that you can try out, and then adapt for your own needs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Checklist for afternoon or evening homework sessions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What homework is due tomorrow? Complete that first.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2006\/08\/07\/how-to-save-time-and-learn-more-the-daily-review-book-excerpt\/\">Review your notes on today&#8217;s classes (5 minutes per class).<\/a> What questions do you have? Note them so you can ask about them in class.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What homework was assigned today? When is it due?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">If time allows, work on upcoming homework assignments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Checklist before sleeping at night:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have I completed 15 minutes of Independent Reading?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Have I completed all the homework that is due tomorrow?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Have I checked to see what classes I have tomorrow?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Have I put all the books and materials I will need tomorrow into my schoolbag?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Have I plugged in my phone and laptop so they will be fully charged tomorrow?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly trained professionals like airline pilots and surgeons use checklists to make sure they complete each essential task. You can use checklists to help stay organized with your essential tasks and due dates. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-habits","category-work-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}