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Mastering Your Time: Tips for Effective Time Management

Learn practical strategies to manage your time efficiently, set realistic goals, and avoid procrastination. Explore how teens spend their time on various activities. Discover the importance of organizing your day and prioritizing tasks effectively.

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Mastering Your Time: Tips for Effective Time Management

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  1. Habit #3 Put First Things First

  2. How well do you manage your time?

  3. Time Quadrants

  4. there’s not enough time in the day? • It should be restated, “There’s not enough organized time in the day.” Have You Ever Heard…

  5. Set realistic goals • Just start • Do school work when your energy level is at its highest • Break large tasks into smaller ones • Work for realistic periods of time • Avoid study marathons (like all-nighters) • Create an effective place to do your school work • Allow extra time for unexpected things • Schedule time for yourself • Do the most difficult tasks first (eat your veggies before dessert) • Reward yourself when you have finished tasks on time. Ways to Avoid Procrastination

  6. What Do Teens Spend Their Time Doing? • Over a third of teens hold part-time jobs, working about 2 ½ hours day • The average American teen spends almost 3 ½ hours a day watching television. (American Psychological Association, 1993)

  7. What Do Teens Spend Their Time Doing? • Teens spend about 1 ½ hours a day with friends doing social activities outside of school. • Teens spend about 1 hour a day talking to friends via technology like the telephone, email, IM or text messaging. • (Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005)

  8. What Do Teens Spend Their Time Doing? • Male teens spend about 2 hours a day playing video games. • Females spend about 30 minutes a day playing video games. • (Jack Myers Media Business Report, 2007)

  9. What Do Teens Spend Their Time Doing? • Nearly three-quarters of teens spend 2-3 hours or more per day listening to or downloading music.

  10. Do the Math • Work 2.5 hours per day • T.V. 3.5 hours per day • Social Activities 1.5 hours per day • Talking 1 hour per day • Video Games 2 hours per day (boys) • Music 2 + hours per day • In School 7 + hours • Homework 1 + hours • Sleep + 7 hours _____________________ • 27.5 hours per day

  11. You can’t fit everything into an unorganized suitcase • You can fit everything into an organized suitcase How is Your Day Like a Suitcase?

  12. You can’t find important things in an unorganized closet • You can find important things in an organized closet How is Your Day Like a Closet?

  13. Your Day is Like a Jar Full of Rocks…

  14. Your Day is Like a Jar Full of Rocks, Sand…. Sand fills in the cracks.

  15. Your Day is Like a Jar Full of Rocks, Sand, and Water Water fills what's left.

  16. Rocks represent “things that have to be done.” = School = Job = Chores = Sleep = Eating

  17. Sand represents “enjoyable activities” that fill our time. = Texting = Social Activities = T.V.

  18. Water represents time that is wasted. = Driving = Waiting in line = Daydreaming

  19. What do YOU fill your jar with first?

  20. Read about time management on pages 106-116 in the book entitled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. • Take down one page of Cornell notes. Silent Reading

  21. Time Management Log

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