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Time Management

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Purpose

Do you sometimes struggle to manage your time? Everyone does. Why not learn skills to help you manage your time more wisely? You’ll have less stress and accomplish more.

Description

Play a game or sport with a time limit. Encourage participants to consider carefully how they use their time during the game or sport. Afterward, talk about the decisions participants made about their time, what they might have done differently, and what they learned about managing their time.

As you plan this activity, please follow the counsel given in chapter 13 of Handbook 2: Administering the Church (2010) and review “Safety Recommendations for Church Activities.”

More Ideas

  • Good, better, best—Review the talk “Good, Better, Best” (Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2007, 104–8). Be prepared with six fun activities (two good, two better, and two best) and vote on which are good, better, or best. Do each of the activities as a group, starting with the best ones.

  • Calendar—Challenge each group member to create a colorful calendar that contains 24 areas (such as boxes, circles, and so on), representing the 24 hours in a day. Explain that everyone will need to decide for themselves which activities they need to accomplish during a typical day and write each one in the area (time period) when they will complete it. Challenge group members to use their calendar as a guide to help them complete every activity on their list each day over the next few days.

  • Time jar—Divide into teams. Give each team a jar or cup and a set amount of rocks, pebbles, and sand. Invite them to work together to figure out how they can fit the most items into the jar. Afterward, explain that the jar represents a day and the items represent our daily tasks. Just as you can fit more into the jar if you put the rocks in first, completing your most important tasks first will allow you to get them done while still having time for lower-priority activities.

  • Priorities game—Divide your group into teams and give each team a list of tasks with different point values, such as listing 50 words that start with the letter B (15 points), reading a children’s book out loud (10 points), making a paper snowflake (5 points), or jogging around the building (20 points). Set a timer and tell the teams to gain as many points as possible. At the end, talk about how the participants chose to prioritize tasks and manage the time given.

Discussion

Encourage participants to talk about what they are learning. Discussions can take place before, during, or after the activity. You could ask questions like the following:

  • Why do you think it is important to manage your time wisely?

  • When have you been blessed by managing your time well?

  • What feelings or impressions do you have about time management?

  • How can you apply what you are learning in your life?

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