Perhaps you are a stressed student with more deadlines than empty beer bottles, and less time than money left in your wallet. You'd spend all day playing a computer game, but have no time to do your assignments. What cam you do?

Time management for students is all too often missed from the curriculum, yet it is these people who would benefit more immediately from this training. Increasingly, games are being considered as a way to enrich the academic experience of students and young people, and the value of games such as these is being appreciated for its psychological advantage.

Interestingly, these games are built on a motivational principle of achievement.

This is often in stark contrast to our working life, where failure is a highly negative issue, and motivation is borne all too often from the fear of failure or of increased stress or pressure. Many professionals lately have tried to consider how a college or university could function more along the motivational strategies used in computer games to help increase academic results.

These time management games can include time management techniques that could easily be employed in the students' daily routine.

Whether it is a computer game, or a physical activity such as being trained by a time management coach, both of these formats of games have the advantage that participants are in a 'games' mood, and more ready to accept both success and failure.

It is this frame of mind that more often sees the students benefit, move forwards and become more open to greater opportunities of success in the future.