Time is Ticking - A Brief Evaluation

Considering we had a 'Time Management' workshop last Thursday, I'm not feeling too confident I'm doing too well. I'm getting on with everything, it just seems to be happening very slowly. I'm not sure if that's just because it's animation and it's me taking a while to get through it all, or whether I'm thinking too much about what I should or could do instead of just getting stuck right in and doing it, (which is a common problem for me).
I was away in Newcastle the weekend just gone, and have a trip planned for home this Saturday for my cousin's 21st.. so time is a little short around the edges. This means I have to try to constructively plan around my timetable and work out realistically what I can do with the time left.

I've found it really hard to plan ahead with animation, especially as the nature of this brief is just having fun and exploring what I can find out about areas that interest me. When things go wrong or don't go as planned and result in taking a lot longer than expected, rather than spending another few hours trying to correct it, (which I have tried and found out the hard way), I should just note down how it -kind of- worked, and move on to something else.
But in saying that, it is difficult to just play around and not have a final thing or piece to work towards, you start to lose the direction you were heading in. And a vicious circle starts to form... in the shape of long tedious nights that get you no where!!!

I've made at least 101 lists of what I need to do, and what I have to do next - which all go to pot as I can't fathom how to approach the list because I never really plan anything. I've always had a general approach of just 'go with the flow' - I'm pretty well organised and I know what needs to be done week to week, but within that normal routine I don't really plan anything, I just do whatever jumps out first, and just take it from there.
I need to become much more disciplined with how I manage my time; knowing when I can fit things in and planning what can and will be achieved in that time.
I write a lot of lists, and they work to a certain extent; I need a fixed list that I can see every day to remind me of what needs to be finished, started and getting on with.

This starts now!!!!!