What advice would you give on how to schedule things like chores and school work and fun things like TV, reading books, watching movies, using the Internet, going out, and everything else?

I like your idea of having dedicated time for each aspect of life you feel is important. The key could be to positively enforce those behaviors, too. One thing I do is reward myself with a jog around the lake after an intense writing session. PS One thing I am building into my life is REST. This could be five minutes or a fifteen-minute rest period. It's worked very well (like when I recently wrote a book in a single day).

Choose what motivates you most productively. if you need money, then choose and concentrate upon what does and also makes you happy too.

I think this is something we all struggle with: time management. I certainly do in my own professional life, but I have learned things that are of incredible help. But if you can master your use of time, then you will begin to master your life. 1) Set your daily priorities: Before you start work in the morning, do a mental review of the top priorities you aim to accomplish today. Identify how much time those tasks will take to complete. Schedule times to do those things where you won't let random interruptions such as phone calls, IM's or your tendency to get on Facebook/Youtube, etc, to interfere with those tasks. You need to be realistic, honest about your capabilities, and plan accordingly. Serious willpower and focus required. These tasks can be divided into Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 priorities (mission critical to idgaf). You can even color code them using tools such as Todoist and Google Calendar. Routine Necessities: Identify what are your routine habits for meals, showering, sleep, exercise, morning/evening commute and how much time they take away from your day. Be realistic and schedule them accordingly. The more routine you make these, the more orderly your life becomes. Review: At the beginning (or end) of each day, review what you did yesterday, how much time you spent doing them, and identify what challenges or obstacles you faced in completing your priorities (be honest.) Sometimes the biggest obstacle is your own laziness. After you complete this, move on to setting your daily top priorities as above. You use this part of the process to identify wasted time or effort, and to refine the process. Or to determine whether what you are doing should even be a priority for you, whether it can be done faster/better, or if you need some kind of assistance. Can a task be automated, delegated or is it even important to do right now? Are you spending too much time doing things that aren't that important? THIS IS KEY: Your attitude here is every day one of continuous daily improvement. Hold this attitude like your life depends on it. Leisure time: After, and only after, you identify what your real top priorities are can you identify just how much leisure you have to play with every day. Schedule accordingly. This is far more realistic, organic, and flexible a way to do this and stands a much higher chance of success. Tools: Pick a few tools for task management and scheduling.  These help you keep a lid on complex multi-day or multi-week projects, and just daily tasks in general. Here are my go-to's: Google Calendar (awesome! automated reminders, color coding, easy to modify on a daily agenda, great automation and collaboration) Todoist (HIGHLY recommend) Google Keep (lists, lists, and more lists!) Trello (good for simple project management) This simple approach to time management has transformed both my professional and personal life. Time is precious and short. Direct it towards accomplishing meaning and make it work for you, not against you.

These are some basic tips you could use: 1) You have things to be done daily that cannot be ignored. List them down, allocate minimum time for each thing to do it good. Schedule such work accordingly. 2) There can be important work that cannot / should be postponed, which otherwise would get you into some trouble. List them at least the previous day, estimate how much energy and time is required for each task and schedule each accordingly. Resources necessary to accomplish each task must also be listed and make them ready and available to carry out the tasks. 3) You can multitask a few at a time. You can listen to music you like and do many daily chores. It will keep you in good energy even at the end of completion of all daily chores. 4) Reading books is something you can do when you want solitude. Watching TV when you want to kill spare time or to watch something that is completely important and must to watch. Going out is a way of relaxation and exercise to the body and mind. You can do walking, jogging or cycling and get multiple benefits. What you cannot afford to do is skip daily things - it will mess up your life; postponing important work - it will become an emergency soon and cause unnecessary anxiety, drain your resources and may not produce good results in alignment with your expectation. Time management and discipline certainly helps one to accomplish all tasks in time, style, relaxed manner and still leaves a good amount of free time at one's disposal.

Well to me the key is variation. I need to feel that I'm not doing the same thing every day. So I try to dedicate each day to one specific purpose. For instance a day could look like this: Go to class/work, then work on the most pressing assignment. The next day could be: Go to class/work, then relax. If you need you can split relaxing into multiple categories. Another thing to remember is that you should take a 10+ minute break every hour on the hour. So you can keep a list of small things you need to do that takes you away from your work station.

If you run your life according to a preset fixed timetable you'll be like a robot and life will get boring! Can you honestly earmark, say 30 minutes, to watch TV and switch if off if you are in the middle of an entertaining program or sports you love?! Can you fix up half an hour for reading books and close the book exactly by the clock even if the going is very interesting?! No..Sir...we can't do things especially the ones we do for fun, relaxing, entertaining by clockwork precision. Be regularly irregular in doing whatever you want to do. Of course, daily chores and school work should take precedence. But beyond that just go with the flow meaning just do what you feel like doing irrespective of the time you spend on it.