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Life Skills to Make Your LIves Easier

04/29/2024
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When new adults leave their family of origin, everything you want to know and are required to learn can be overwhelming.   It isn't just academic skill learning.   You must learn how to search for jobs, how to maintain a household, and what steps to take to set up your life, for better or for worse.  Here are some library resources to help you find your way.

 

Cover ArtGood Housekeeping the Complete Household Handbook by Good Housekeeping Editors (Editor)

ISBN: 1588164039
For more than 100 years, the professionals at the Good Housekeeping Institute have helped readers keep their homes in top shape. This complete guide offers the Institute's expert advice everything homeowners need to know, from cleaning a floor to fixing a leaky gutter. The professionals at the Good Housekeeping Institute present practical, easy-to-understand, and simple-to-implement advice on every aspect of maintaining and managing a home. The Institute's directors have researched and tested all the time, money, and energy-saving tricks in the book, from choosing a vacuum to removing wallpaper, from getting rid of stains to keeping your family safe, and much more.
 
 
 
 

Cover ArtSafe and Sound by Mercury Stardust

ISBN: 9780744079074
For too many people, the simple act of contacting a plumber or repair person can feel like a game of chance. As a transwoman and a professional maintenance technician, Mercury Stardust has discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. If you've ever felt panicked about opening your home to strangers in order to fix a maintenance issue, this book is for you. Renting a home can be a complex process--from finding a safe and affordable space, to hiring help for moving in and out, and of course, managing any repairs that come up during your stay. You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands--and it's not as hard as you might think.

 

Cover ArtGet That Job! by Thea Kelley

ISBN: 9780998380827
Praised as "Excellent" on Forbes.com, this concise interview guide gives readers proven tips and clear instructions to prepare for breakthrough interviews. Job seekers will learn to: Identify and communicate their unique strengths, their "key selling points." Understand why employers ask many of the most common interview questions - and how to answer with confidence. Succeed with video interviews, behavioral interviews and panels. Build an arsenal of success stories. Ace every step - from the first screening to accepting the offer.

 

Cover ArtThe 2-Hour Job Search, Second Edition by Steve Dalton

ISBN: 9781984857286
Use the latest technology to target potential employers and secure the first interview--no matter your experience, education, or network--with these revised and updated tools and recommendations

 

Cover ArtRich Food Poor Food by Jayson Calton; Mira Calton; William Davis (Foreword by); Mark Sisson (Introduction by)

ISBN: 9780984755172
Do you get confused while poring over labels at the grocery store, trying to determine the healthiest options? What makes one box of cereal better for you than another, and how are we supposed to decipher the extensive lists of mysterious ingredients on every package, and then determine whether they are safe or toxic to your family's health? With nearly 40,000 items populating the average supermarket today, the Rich Food Poor Food - Grocery Purchasing System (GPS), is a unique guide that steers the consumer through the grocery store aisles, directing them to health enhancing Rich Food options while avoiding health detracting Poor Food ones.

 

Cover ArtMartha Stewart's Organizing by Martha Stewart

ISBN: 9781328508256
The ultimate guide to getting your life in order--with hundreds of practical and empowering ideas, projects, and tips--from America's most trusted lifestyle authority Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing--sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life--with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room strategies (how to sort office paperwork, when to purge the garage or attic), seasonal advice (when to swap out bedding and clothing, how to put away holiday decorations), and day-by-day or week-by-week plans for projects such as de-cluttering, house cleaning, creating a filing system, overhauling the closet, and more.
 
 

Cover ArtEveryday Mathematics Made Easy by Tom Begnal

ISBN: 9781577152224
Confidently solve and anticipate solutions to everyday situations where math is needed with the illustrated step-by-step instruction of Everyday Mathematics Made Easy.
 
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Community College Month

04/16/2024
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Some of the library's holdings to help understand and celebrate the diversity of community college life. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Time Management Skills

08/24/2023
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How to Master Time Management

Imagine if you were given $86,400 every day.   The trick to receiving it every day is that you have to use it (spend it) all day.. Every. Day.   If you didn't spend it, you didn't receive it and would never receive it again.   Each of those dollars represents your life.   You are given 86,400 seconds in a day.    Many of them are spent sleeping.   Lots of them are spent with family, friends, or on a job.   But how often do you spend them on school?   If you find yourself spending them on school, screaming that you don't have any seconds to give to your family or to your job, this message is for you.

 

Spend your seconds wisely.

Work in small chunks (<3 hours).   Do a mindless task (like cleaning) to take a break.   Get up and walk around, focusing your eyes on the horizon, to rest them during these sessions.  Stretch.  When you leave for a break, write down what'll you do when you return and stick to it -- making it easier to have a goal immediately when you come back.

Only check e-mails and texts at a specific time of the day.  If constantly distracted, you can lose up to 23 minutes after an interruption.    Set your phone to "do not disturb" and share with your loved ones that something better be on fire or someone headed to the hospital before they interrupt.   Don't prioritize responding a nonurgent e-mail; instead, set a reminder on the message to respond to it later.  Tell your text partners that you're out of the zone for the next few hours.  

Do one thing at a time.   Do not try to do multiple things on different screens or toggle from screen vs. in-person.  You're more likely to finish a single task if you do just one thing.  Then you can take a break and go to a different task when you return.   Break projects into little steps, and then do just one step at a time.

Understand your deadlines as a series of stops rather than one big stop.  If you see it as "one big stop" at the end, you're more likely to slam into it like a car without brakes.   Instead, write down in a planner, on your phone or in person, the smaller deadlines that will occur before it:  getting the first draft done, for example.   Do something small on a big project every day.   

 

Just as you shouldn't do all the work of the semester in the first two weeks of the semester, there's no need to do all the work in the last two weeks of the semester.

Here are some additional articles about time management.

Tips and Tricks for Time Management

7 Time Management Tips for Students

Past and Future Deadlines

 

Use Apps like Engross and Forest to help you manage your time.

Ask someone in counseling, advising, student services, or another department about their tips for time management.   

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