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The Balanced Life

The Balanced Life. Time Management. Time Management. Time Management Strategies (< 5 years) Long-Term Goals (> 5 years) Personal Mission Statement Personal Values. Personal Values. Worksheet: List your values

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The Balanced Life

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  1. The Balanced Life Time Management

  2. Time Management Time Management Strategies (< 5 years) Long-Term Goals (> 5 years) Personal Mission Statement Personal Values

  3. Personal Values • Worksheet: • List your values • List your roles in life (student, son/daughter, friend, employee, husband, wife, etc.) • List goals for each role • Write your personal mission statement

  4. Personal Mission Statement • I will endeavor to be the best husband that I can, cherishing my wife and always being a good listener, enjoying her presence. I will encourage her and help her achieve her goals and aspirations. • To my children and step-children I will seek to always set a good example, provide leadership, and to always be a friend. • As a church member, I will support its programs, leaders, and members with enthusiasm and a cheerful heart.

  5. Personal Mission Statement • As a teacher, I will be a mentor and leader of my students, caring for them as individuals, and helping them to succeed in my classes and in life, and to become the best person they possibly can be. • As a Christian, my number one mission is to “finish the race and keep the faith.” • Finally, I will seek in every way possible to show grace and encouragement to all that I meet regardless of the circumstances or their actions towards me.

  6. Begin With the End in Mind • Your personal mission gives your life direction: • What is my destination? • Am I getting closer or further away from my goals? • Is what I’m doing now consistent with my values? • Avoid the “Activity Trap”! • Avoid “success” at expense of health, family, or friends. • Be sure your ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  7. Two Creations • All things created twice: • First Creation: In the mind (visualized) • Second Creation: In actuality

  8. Two Creations • By Design or default “If we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for our first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape much of our lives by default. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.” (Covey)

  9. Two Creations • Either you have your own values and goals or others will impose their values and goals on you. If you are not the leader, be sure those you follow share your values! • Self-awareness is the key. “Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that lie within us.” (Covey)

  10. Time ManagementOverview • What one thing could you do (that you aren’t doing now) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? • Your success as a student at NMU?

  11. Time ManagementOverview • Principle centered not activity centered • Put first things first! • Activity Matrix and Activity Trap

  12. Time ManagementMatrix Important Not Important

  13. Time ManagementProcrastination • The habit of procrastination takes a two-fold toll on its victims. First, important work goes unfinished; second (and more importantly), valuable energy is wasted in the process of putting off the things that remain undone. Procrastination results from an individual’s short-sighted attempt to postpone temporary discomfort.

  14. Time ManagementProcrastination • Procrastination creates a senseless cycle of • Delay followed by • Worry followed by • A panicky and often futile attempt to “catch up.” • Procrastination is, at its core, a struggle against oneself and the only antidote is action.

  15. Time ManagementProcrastination • Once you acquire the habit of doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done, you will avoid untold trouble, worry, and stress. So learn to defeat procrastination by paying less attention to your fears and more attention to your responsibilities. The world punishes procrastinators and rewards those who “do it now.” Life does not procrastinate, neither should you. • “Not now” becomes “never.” Martin Luther

  16. Time ManagementWeekly Schedule • Daily and weekly evaluations • “Were my actions today (this week) in consonance with my values or in dissonance?” • What changes are needed in the schedule • What changes are needed in me (discipline?) • Plan the next week • Activity Matrix and Activity Trap

  17. Time ManagementAnnual Update • Get off someplace by yourself. • Ask hard questions: • Have my values changed? • Have my roles changed? • “Did I get closer to my goals or farther away”. If farther away, what action is needed? • Revise personal mission statement as needed

  18. You Can Change! “What we learn to do, we learn by doing. Excellence, then, is not an act—but a habit.” Aristotle

  19. “One necessary precursor to change, though, is often a change in attitude.” User’s Guide to the Brain, p. 356

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