How I Can Be Orginized This Year in High School? In high school, the expectations increase. Tardiness, late homework, and laziness are no longer allowed. Teachers expect a lot more from students than before, as do your parents and friends. Things get pretty hectic pretty quickly. The secret to staying on top of it all is to get organized.     How to Stop Getting Anymore Tardies "Ring!" There goes the bell, and it appears that you will once again be late to class. If this is a common experience for you, or if you would like to prevent it from happening, please continue reading for some suggestions on not being tardy so often.  Determine why are you getting tardies? Are you disorganized in the morning? Do you tend to want to talk one more minute with friends in the morning before Spanish? Do you underestimate how long it takes to bike to school? If you can figure out where you're going wrong, you can fix it.  Take responsibility for your sleep schedule. Go to bed on time. Most teens and young adults need at least 8-10 hours sleep; if you don't get enough, it will be difficult to be alert in the morning. Get an alarm clock.  Check your schedule. Understand the starting and ending times of each class you are taking. Also, figure out how long it will take you to walk from one part of a building to another.  Organize school supplies. Figure out what you need, and have a place for everything. Know where everything is. You won't waste time searching for a calculator if you always keep it in your backpack. You could try buying two of the same things, so you have a calculator at school and at home.  Prepare for the next day the day before. What takes 15 minutes the night before can save you a lot of time in the morning. Pick out your clothes. Make sure that you have everything you need for the day in your backpack/bag.  Don't give the teacher a reason to give a tardy. If you are running late, be subtle about it. Maybe the teacher won't notice. Don't draw attention to yourself. How to Do Your Homework on Time if You're a Procrastinator This guide will help you get done with your homework on time if you are a procrastinator and of course will break the habit (hopefully). If you're not a procrastinator, it will just make doing your homework a lot easier. Figure out how much time it takes you to do all of your homework on a regular basis. The best time to do this is during the weekend, when you have more free time. Sit down, time yourself and start doing your homework (don't hurry, but don't do it too slowly either). Divide up your homework time into three unequal parts (you will decide how much time you need for each part later): Homework, additional homework, and last minute homework (this part isn't necessary, and in next steps you will learn if you want to include it in your homework time or not). Take a break when you get home from school. Your break-time depends on how much time you spent on doing homework when you timed yourself. (If your homework takes less than or equal to 2 hours, you can take a 2 hour break. If it took you more than 2 hours to do your homework, you can take a 1 hour break). Put procrastination in your schedule. Be realistic. If you know a five question assignment is going to take about an hour, put it in your schedule. This way, you're never behind your schedule. But be reasonable. Don't overdo it. Never save large or difficult pieces of homework until last minute. It may seem like a good plan, but once you're there, you'll realize that you can't finish it.  DO NOT ask people if you can copy their work. Usually, they will say no, and you are at a great risk of getting caught. How to Overcome Lazyness Often what are called lazy people aren't. Often us (called lazy people) only feel overwhelmed when presented a task that seems more fit for a big team than just one person. Or sometimes, it is chronic laziness that kicks in and stops us from doing the things that need to be done. Just get up and do it! Try to figure out the single detail or problem which is holding you back. Most likely, the sticking issue is smaller than you think it is, and you can get past it more easily than you think. Whatever it is, don't give up until you find a way to get past it somehow. Remember, it's probably one single, specific problem or detail. Think about the importance of the problem or goal. Is it something you can actually afford to ignore? Is it something that somebody else can help you with? Can you just forget about this and try a different approach altogether? Are you being too much of a perfectionist? Convince yourself you can do something. Some who feel they might be "lazy" are actually recreating and reliving unpleasant or dreary "freezes" from childhood. No need to dig into your past. But if you do feel stuck, try jumping up, do a task, and tell yourself "Despite an old habit of freezing up, I can get up right now and be productive!" Decide to start the work, and you are well on your way to completing it. Finish a step and cheer up. Completing that task will feel remarkably good, and tell yourself (out loud, if necessary) "Good stuff; you're on a roll; keep this up and you're going to make it to the end of this". Working towards little goals is actually the secret to big success: big successes are just made up of many little continuous successes. Continue working. It's hard to get on a roll, so once you're there, jump right onto your next goal as soon as you're done rewarding yourself. The longer you delay re-starting, the harder it will be to re-start. But the sooner you re-start, the more confident you will feel -- and that will reinforce the positive behavior that leads to feeling that you can do anything!  Don't give up. It's one thing to find your motivation. But, it's another thing to keep it going when the going gets tough -- especially when it's an unforeseen problem! The more avoidant you are, the more you will feel like giving up. How to get past the tough point? Tell yourself over and over: "I really want to get past this; I really want to overcome this", until you believe that you actually don't want to give up. Set some long term goals. If you have goals set up for yourself, you have something to look forward to. Pick goals which are high and will really inspire you. Picture what you really want. Low goals will not really motivate you. Your goals can be to save to buy a home, that red sports car, or fulfill your lifelong dreams (maybe you've been wanting to open a bookstore, an arcade, or start your own publishing company). Make a to-do list, both of large and small things, and prioritize. Make that list of your desires, goals and motivations where you want to move towards to. Keeping them in mind will help you feel energized and willing to take any step needed to achieve them. How to Get On Your Teachers' Good Side You always feel as if your teachers want your life to be completely miserable by lowering your grades. But they're not, they're just observing your behavior and your studying habits. Even if they are, here    aresome tips to help you show your teacher that you are no enemy. Analyze the type of person your teacher really is. Stay out of her way if she is mean, or make sure you are a good student if she's nice. And make sure if she is an "irritating" teacher, make sure you stay quiet and as I said, out of the way. She most likely will appreciate kids being quiet and sticking to the rules. If the teacher is young, they're likely less strict. Try joking around with them, making a few interesting but irrelevant comments, see how that goes.  Keep up with your school work. Teachers hate nothing more than having to force students to do their homework and see the kids' eyes roll (that can sometimes be insulting) . If you really want to push it, do extra work. On the first day of school, be quiet and avoid doing anything crazy. Any behavior that makes you stand out should show that you're a conscientious, intelligent student. Let your teacher see that you are glad to be in his/her class. Prove to the teacher that you're trustworthy. Start reciting and volunteering in his/her class. Reveal your interest on the subject by chatting at break time or after school. While doing this, try not to be the teacher's pet. Always keep your supplies organized. This will show the teacher that you really care about your education, plus it will help you keep track of assignments! TIPS Always be neat and tidy! Never make your bad habits obvious. Swearing and slang is a big turn-off; do not ever use it at school just in case. Understand your teacher, and you'll have a much easier time. If your teacher is one of those people who hates idle kids, always seem busy, even when you're not. How To Be Organized If disorganization is congesting your life and you're feeling scattered and frustrated as a result, then it's time to get organized. But to achieve being organized on the inside, you will need to take steps to become organized on the outside, to clarify your priorities, objectives, and therefore how you want your belongings and your lifestyle to be arranged. Organize your space. Whether it's your home, computer, closet, desk, or locker, you need to see what's in there, throw away what you don't often use (or put it efficiently in storage) and give everything else a convenient and clearly designated space. Clean out your belongings before you think about organizing (organizational tools, furniture, etc.). Don't do it the other way around. You can only really accurately know what space you have when you've cleaned up. If you don't really take a hard look at what you're stuffing in your spaces, you'll waste time and money organizing stuff you don't need anyway. Observe how you use your things and work out how to use your space efficiently. If it's inconvenient to get to things (or to put them away), your organization system is more likely to fail. Make it easy to get to and put away the things you need most often. In that vein, put things where you use them most. Do you have items in your house that just take up space? Be sure to de-clutter regularly. Good questions to ask yourself in deciding: Do I need this? Will I need this in a year? Have I used this in the last year? Do I really love it? Is there someone else who could use this more? Do I have more than I could reasonably use in foreseeable future? Will I miss this if I don't have it? Know what "organized" looks and feels like. Organized spaces are simple to use. They have enough room for the items there. It makes sense. Every item in your home has a location. Organized spaces also feel calm, open, and welcoming.  Use timers. Set a timer for how long you think a cleaning organizing task should take then work like crazy to get it done in the allotted time.  Put it back. Right now. Once you establish where everything belongs, you need to get in the habit of putting it back there as soon as you're finished using it. Don't put it on the kitchen table or on the couch and move onto something else, thinking to yourself that you'll put it away later. That's a big no-no.   Use a calendar. Get a calendar and put it in a place where you see it every day, preferably in the morning. For most people, that's on the refrigerator, on their desk, or on thier desktop. Wherever you put it, make it part of your routine to refer to it every day. For example, you can put it on the inside of the bathroom cabinet where you get your toothpaste. Every morning, while you're brushing your teeth with one hand, touch today's date on the calendar with the other, and look to see what's marked for today and for the upcoming week.  Use a planner. A planner is especially useful if you have a lot of appointments and your days are so varied that you have trouble keeping track of your schedule. For example, if you travel a lot or attend classes at various times of day, it's much easier to carry a planner with you to consult frequently--you can't do that with a calendar. You can also usually fit more information in a planner.  Combine similar activities. Make all your phone calls at one time. Do all your errands at the same time. Do all shopping in one trip.  Write it down! A short pencil is better than a long memory. Anything and everything you need to remember should be written down. Even if your memory is great, nobody's perfect and it doesn't hurt to put it on paper, just in case. Record phone numbers, appointments, birthdays, shopping lists, and things to do, and record them where you can easily find and refer to them when you need them.