Mod 5: Time Management

Learning objectives

🎯 Applying time management for personal lives

🎯 Prioritizing to do lists

🎯 Maintaining focus on goals

Lesson 1: Time management for your life

Starting activity:

Create a to do list with current and future to do’s

Activity:

The Mayo Jar

The Mayo Jar – A Time Management Parable

Divide the group into teams and give them each a large glass container. The Mayo Jar is to be filled with as much material as possible. The material can be rocks, stones, gravel, sand, etc. (But you can use anything.) The larger materials should be placed in the container first and then followed by the next to the largest, and so on… In this order, you should be able to fit the most into the container.

You can come to your own conclusion for the activity based on your need. The rocks (due to size) would be the most important items to complete. (Can be home activities…work/life balance.) Then stones would be every day has to finish items. Gravel can be the project(s) that need to be completed. Sand could be the extra work that was just assigned to you.

I allow the groups to fill their own container without detailed instructions. I tell them to fill their containers with as many materials as they can. And then we talk about the order they selected. If they had an order…and what the materials represent to them…etc. I use this communication to lead into training.

Video:

Reflective activity:

Create a to do list using this template: