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1 Marilyn Shults, Project 2, Family Resource Management/FL 540, May 2010 TIME MANAGMENT Dave Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet Behavior, in Resource Management says, “Because inboxes are metaphors for our lives, there’s no cure all solution to inbox management. We’re all too different. But he believes an awareness of our inbox behavior can help us better understand other areas of our lives.” And so it is with time management. There is no cure all solution for healthy time management but an awareness of our behavior helps us to better understand our lives. Awareness, the first step to change, is one goal of this skills based program. This program will lead participants to a healthier conscious control of time to fulfill their needs and achieve their goals. This five session program could be used in Sunday education, small groups, or with parent groups. Because time management requires change it is best to allow time between sessions. One week is ideal. Each session is designed to last about one and one half hours with five main components: fellowship (5- 10 minutes), Bible time (10-15 minutes), time management presentation (one hour), homework task (1-2 minutes) and prayer (10 minutes). These training sessions have the purpose of assisting adults, challenged by busy schedules, to make discoveries about different aspects of time, to explore what the Bible says about time and how God would have us use time, to assess personal use of time, to build Christians friendships and support, to connect with other people who will challenge participants to be accountable to making changes, and to provide optional training for more intensive time management. To accomplish change, Christian fellowship is integral in developing support and encouragement. Prayers partners will end each session by verbalizing new learning, making commitments to change, and adding personal accountability with the power of prayer. Homework is the element that assists participants in making discoveries about their needs which lead to decisions about what can be changed. Bible time and prayer give us a commonality of focus for making change that is pleasing to God. Each of the five main time management presentations will vary in content and presentation. These five hours are not intended to be a comprehensive training on one specific time management method but an overview of assorted theories and options. If more intensive training is desire, participants can be guided to workshops for the method they desire. E.g. Stephen Covey one day seminar called “The Natural Law of Saving Time”. All participants will walk away having gleaned at least some small nuggets for time management. In “Time Management” James Gleick notes in his book Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything that “sociologist in several countries have found that increasing wealth and increasing education bring a sense of tension about time. We believe that we possess too little of it; that is a myth we live by now.”

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Marilyn Shults, Project 2, Family Resource Management/FL 540, May 2010

TIME MANAGMENT

Dave Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet Behavior, in Resource Management says, “Because

inboxes are metaphors for our lives, there’s no cure all solution to inbox management. We’re all too

different. But he believes an awareness of our inbox behavior can help us better understand other areas

of our lives.” And so it is with time management. There is no cure all solution for healthy time

management but an awareness of our behavior helps us to better understand our lives. Awareness, the

first step to change, is one goal of this skills based program. This program will lead participants to a

healthier conscious control of time to fulfill their needs and achieve their goals.

This five session program could be used in Sunday education, small groups, or with parent groups.

Because time management requires change it is best to allow time between sessions. One week is ideal.

Each session is designed to last about one and one half hours with five main components: fellowship (5-

10 minutes), Bible time (10-15 minutes), time management presentation (one hour), homework task (1-2

minutes) and prayer (10 minutes).

These training sessions have the purpose of assisting adults, challenged by busy schedules, to make

discoveries about different aspects of time, to explore what the Bible says about time and how God

would have us use time, to assess personal use of time, to build Christians friendships and support, to

connect with other people who will challenge participants to be accountable to making changes, and to

provide optional training for more intensive time management.

To accomplish change, Christian fellowship is integral in developing support and encouragement.

Prayers partners will end each session by verbalizing new learning, making commitments to change, and

adding personal accountability with the power of prayer. Homework is the element that assists

participants in making discoveries about their needs which lead to decisions about what can be changed.

Bible time and prayer give us a commonality of focus for making change that is pleasing to God.

Each of the five main time management presentations will vary in content and presentation. These five

hours are not intended to be a comprehensive training on one specific time management method but an

overview of assorted theories and options. If more intensive training is desire, participants can be

guided to workshops for the method they desire. E.g. Stephen Covey one day seminar called “The

Natural Law of Saving Time”. All participants will walk away having gleaned at least some small

nuggets for time management.

In “Time Management” James Gleick notes in his book Faster: The Acceleration of Just About

Everything that “sociologist in several countries have found that increasing wealth and increasing

education bring a sense of tension about time. We believe that we possess too little of it; that is a myth

we live by now.”

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Key Organization Systems report these statistics about time:

About 40% of American adults get less than seven hours of sleep on weekdays, up from 34% in

2001. Almost 60% of meals are rushed, and 34% of lunches are choked down on the run. To

avoid wasting time, we're talking on our cell phones while rushing to work, answering e-mails

during conference calls, waking up at 4 a.m. to call Europe, and generally multitasking our

brains out. Business Week, p. 60, 10/3/2005

The average work week is 54 hours. In an average week, only 14 percent work 40 hours or less.

One-third work 50-59 hours a week and 80% work between 40 and 79 hours at their jobs

according to a 2006 study of 2,500 Americans. Sage Software Survey, Priority 2/2007

28% of Americans interviewed in 2008 said they had been spending less time with household

members. This is compared with 11% in 2006. In the first half of this decade, people reported an

average of 26 hours per month with family, dropping to 18 hours in 2008. Annenberg Center for

the Digital Future, University of Southern California, June 2009

Kenneth Boa in “Time Management" says it so well, the hurry up sickness is contagious because there is

a kernel of truth to it. Time is short. Life is brief. He quotes Moses as saying the years of our lives will

“quickly pass” (Psalm 90:10). We will look back and wonder were life has gone. Each of us is given a

finite number of days, and the cry of our hearts is the same as Moses, we pray that God will “establish

the work of our hands”. (Psalm 10:17) For those people courageous enough to stop and look at their use

of time, learn new nuggets of information, and activate them in their life, these sessions offer an

opportunity for discovery and change.

SESSIONS ONE Basics Facts of God Given Time

FELLOWSHIP: Commonalities. Form groups of five to eight people. Give each group a sheet of paper

and a pen. In this activity called “Commonalities” each group compiles a list of the things they have in

common. To make the list, the item must apply to everyone in the group. Avoid writing things that

people can see (e.g. “everyone has hair,” or “we are all wearing clothes”). Try to dig deeper. After

about 5 minutes, have a spokesperson from each group read their list. This is an excellent team-building

activity because it promotes unity, gets people to realize that they have more in common than they first

might realize. Option: offer beverages as people transition to the day’s study.

BIBLE TIME: Figuring Out Time. (Simple Life by Thom S. Rainer and Art Rainer)

Decisions about the wise use of time begin with identifying your priorities in life. Ideally, the way you

use time should reflect what you value most in life. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Read

Luke 10: 38 – 42. This is the story of two sisters, Martha and Mary. It is one of the most powerful

stories about the relationship between priorities and time.

Questions:

1. What was Martha doing during Jesus’ visit?

2. What was Mary doing?

3. Which sister did Jesus commend and why?

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Martha had busied herself so much that she missed what was most important. Her desires were

good, but the outcome fell short. While she was anxiously preparing for the feast of men, she was

missing a feast for the heart. Martha’s more became less. Mary’s less became more. Are you more like

Mary or Martha? In what way? Opening prayer

MAIN TOPIC:

1. Individual Review: Stop and think about your schedule for a moment. Which categories dictate

your calendar the most? Rank them in order with 1 being the most influential and 5 being the

least. See hand out #1. This exercise assists people to realize that we allow things to set the pace

of our life and then identifies the category that dictates their life.

2. Share your top two categories with your small group.

3. Introduce Andy Stanley and his DVD.

a. Andy Stanley is senior pastor of North Point Ministries (Baptist). He is the bestselling

author of Visioneering, The Next Generation Leader, The Best Question Ever, and How

Good is Good Enough? Andy and his wife, Sandy, have two sons and a daughter.

b. While watching Andy’s DVD, take a note pad and write down the items you agree with,

disagree with, or new concepts/challenges. Show Take It To The Limit: How To Get The

Most Out Of Life by Andy Stanley, DVD Part 2(Complete Message), Section Title:

Downtime, 39 minutes.

4. Basic principles of message:

a. Your schedule has the least amount of margin available.

b. If we are to allow God to lead us to a place of margin, we must first be willing to

examine the principles that govern our schedules.

c. We are created with limits. This is very true with our schedules. He put a certain number

of days in each of our lives.

d. We act as if we have unlimited time. When time begins to run out, we begin to allow

urgent things to push out important things.

e. God gives us our time and He has a plan for how we spend it.

f. The first step toward experiencing His plan is to turn over control of our calendars to

Him.

5. Each small group will pick two of the following five questions. Discuss in your small group. Be

willing to share your answers by designating a spokesperson. See Handout #2.

6. Summary:

a. Your time is limited. Somebody will determine how you spend your time – it might as

well be you.

b. Give God the “first fruits” of your time. Tomorrow morning set aside the first minutes of

your day to spend time with God. Whether it is three minutes or thirty minutes, whether

you pray or read the Bible, or something else. Begin with God as your priority and watch

to see if you have more or less margin. As you put on your watch say a little prayer that

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God might “teach me to order my days that I might gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90:

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HOMEWORK: In the back of your mind ponder this, if you were to adopt a new schedule, only add

things based on your top priority, what are some of the things you might need to subtract from your

current schedule? Or, think of it this way, what would you like your schedule to look like one year from

today? This allows your current commitments to lapse and you to bow out gracefully.

PRAYER PARTNERS: For these five sessions we will end with a prayer partner. You will have your

prayer partner throughout all five sessions. Partners will share their time management challenges, new

learning from the session and their commitments to try new ways. Each person will share, and then pray

for each other.

SESSION TWO An overview of time management

FELLOWSHIP: Uniquities. Continue with last week’s fellowship activity. On a sheet of paper have

each group record uniquities, meaning that each item applies to only one person in the group. The group

tries to find at least 2 uniquities for each person. After 5-7 minutes, you can have each person say one of

their uniquities or have a person read them one by one, having others try to guess who it was. (Again,

you want to go beyond the superficial, avoiding those things that people can readily see). The awareness

of their own unique characteristics is also beneficial in that people can feel empowered to offer the

group something unique.

BIBLE TIME: Made for Eternity. (adapted from Simple Life by Thom S. Rainer and Art Rainer)

Christians are supposed to look different and unique. Life is a blip on the eternity lifeline. We live in a

world in which time exists and so struggle with wrapping our minds around infinite. But it is still there

waiting for us. Ecclesiastes 3: 11 “God has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put

eternity in their hearts, but man can’t discover the work God has done from beginning to end.” We were

created for eternity but for now we are time bound.

Can you grasp the eternal perspective? If we could grasp never ending our life here on earth would be

different. Consequently, we make decisions based on what seems important – the blip. Read Psalm 90.

Questions: How does Moses describe God’s view of time (v 41)? How did Moses describe humans’

view of time (v 10)? What did Moses conclude about the way we should use our time on earth (v 12)?

Our time on this earth (even if brief) is important. We know our life and what we do with it is

important. God watches over you and me. He cares for what happens to you and me. He cares about

what we do with our days and our moments He has given to us. Opening prayer

MAIN TOPIC: Speaker Rev Eugene Schmidt, KS District Timothy Instructor

1. Introduce guest speaker Rev. Eugene Schmidt. Served a KS District President from 1985 –

1994. Currently Rev Schmidt is a retired pastor and member of Christ Lutheran Church. Rev

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Schmidt serves as an instructor in the Timothy program. The Timothy program brings new

pastors together for fellowship and to develop skills essential to learn early in ministry. Pastor

Schmidt will share his teachings about time management. His basic outline includes:

2. Four assumptions about time

3. Definition of time

4. Effective time management techniques

a. COPE (Concentrate, Operationalize, Prioritize, Evaluate)

b. Time Robbers

c. Paper Blizzard – GUTS (Give, Use, Throw, Save)

d. Meetings – NEAT (Nature, Expectation, Agenda, Time) and the 4 D’s (do it, delay it,

delegate it, dump it)

HOMEWORK: Think about before next gathering time: What are your priorities (major categories)?

See handout #3.

PRAYER PARTNER: Find your partner from last week. Take about challenges and learning’s since

class has started. Specifically share what you would like your partner to include in prayers.

SESSION THREE Generations of Time Management

FELLOWSHIP (OPTIONAL): Life Highlights. In the life highlights game, participants take a moment

to consider which 30 seconds of their life they would most like to relive and why. Each participant then

presents and explains the 30 seconds they have chosen to the group. Afterwards, the participants reflect

on why they chose these 30 seconds, whether their current life relates to this moment, and what this

moment tells them about how they should spend their time.

BIBLE TIME: Beginning and the End (Genesis to Revelation): The Bible records for us the beginning

of the world and the end of the world. The story of mankind, from beginning to end, from the fall into

sin to redemption and God’s ultimate victory over evil, is found in the pages of the Bible.

Genesis Revelation

The sun is created The sun is not needed

Satan is victorious Satan is defeated

Sin enters the human race Sin is banished

People run and hide from God People are invited to live with God forever

People are cursed The curse is removed

Tears are shed, with sorrow for sin No more sin, no more tears or sorrow

The garden and earth are cursed God’s city is glorified, the earth is made new

The fruit from the tree of life God’s people may eat from the tree of life

is not to be eaten

Paradise is lost Paradise is regained

People are doomed to death Death is defeated, believers live forever with God

Read Genesis 1: 1-2. Scan and summarize chapter 3. The earth is void and then God creates.

Creation falls to sin and is separated from God. Read Revelation 22: 20-21. Believers trust the news

that God is coming again, quickly. We rest in His grace and the gift of life he gives to those who have

faith. We end where Genesis began in paradise with no evil. Where Adam and Eve were talking with

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God, we will be worshipping God. The garden has an evil serpent; Revelation has a perfect city with no

evil. With the problems of the world, we (believers) are called to endure in our faith. We endure until

Jesus transforms. Those who believe have a wonderful reward waiting for them.

Opening prayer about beginning/ending and resting secure on God’s promise of life with Him in

His mansion. While we endure and wait for that time, open our mind, hearts, and actions to learning to

live for Him. Pray for managing our time in ways that give glory to God, the creator of all. Chart from

Life Application Study Bible, page 2271, New American Standard Bible, Zondervan, 1995.

MAIN TOPIC: Panel of three people and their time management styles. In Stephen Covey’s book, First

Things First, he speaks of three generations of time management. First generation is based on

reminders. It’s “go with the flow”, but try to keep track of things you want to do with your time – write

the report, attend the meeting, fix the car, and clean out the garage. This generation is characterized by

simple notes and checklists. If you’re in this generation, you carry these lists with you and refer to them

so you don’t forget to do thing. Hopefully, at the end of the day, you’ve accomplished many of the

things that you set out to do and you can check them off your list. If those tasks are not accomplished,

you put them on your list for tomorrow.

Second generation is one of “planning and preparing”. It’s characterized by calendars and appointment

books. This generation is efficiency, personal responsibility, and achievement in goal setting, planning

ahead, and scheduling future activities and events. If you’re in this generation, you make appointments,

write down commitments, identify deadlines, and note where meetings will be held. You may even keep

this in some kind of computer or network.

Third generation is “planning, prioritizing, and controlling.” If you’re in this generation, you’re

probably spent some time clarifying your values and priorities. You’ve asked yourself, “What do I

want?” You’ve set long, medium and short range goals to obtain these values. You prioritize your

activities on a daily basis. This generation is characterized by a wide variety of planners and organizers

– electronic as well as paper based – with detailed forms for daily planning. All three have brought us a

long way toward increased effectiveness in our lives. Bottom line, for most people the gap still remains

between what’s deeply important to them and the way they spend their time.

Introduce three people on the panel today. Each will share: who they are, what their core areas of their

life, what they do to management time, and tell about any changes that have taken place in their time

management style. Having people with diverse lives and core areas as well as different management

styles is important. Allowing question and answer time at the end is important.

Optional questions for the panel if time allows. If you could offer one piece of advice to make time

count, what would that advice be? Do you believe that your management of time makes you healthier?

Explain how it makes you healthier. (Simple Life states that 44% feel they will have health problems if

their daily lives continue at the current pace) Talk about “letting go.” Tell of a time when you had to

“let go” of a plan, how difficult that was, and what were the ramifications of “letting go”. Offer any

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wisdom for making the choice to let go? We can’t expect perfection. Life is making mistakes and

learning from them. In this process of life we can be frustrated or inspired. Can you think of

unexpected struggles you have had in trying to manage your life with your life core values? Please

share.

HOMEWORK: Take time this week to track how you spend your time. There are a couple different

choices of tools to use. See sample time assessments # 1 and #2.

GROUP PRAYER: Thank God for the gift of life and time to serve Him. Thank Him for the panel of

people who generously gave their time. Ask God’s guidance to help us use our time in ways pleasing to

Him.

PRAYER PARTNER: Share with your prayer partner your core areas. Pray for each other that your

time may focus on those core areas.

SESSION FOUR Two popular Time Management methods

Stephen Covey, First Things First & Julie Morgenstern, Time Management From the Inside Out

FELLOWSHIP (OPTIONAL): Two Truths and a Lie. This game helps participants get to know one

another on a personal level. One participant at a time tells the group three things about himself, only two

of which are true. It is up to the group to guess which fact is a lie.

BIBLE TIME: Moses wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, do you know the story? (Adapted from

“Time Management” by Kenneth Boa) Because the children of Israel refused to believe God’s

promises, choosing instead to believe the spies who said they could not conquer the land, Moses has

seen his entire generation wander aimlessly in the desert. For nearly 40 years, the Israelites had roamed

with no specific destination in sight. An entire generation was sentenced to literally kill time by

wandering in the wilderness. It has been estimated that an average of almost 90 people a day died

during those years until only Moses, Joshua and Caleb remained to represent the generation that left

Egypt.

Many of us experience this same dilemma, wandering in the wilderness of routine and

overbooked schedules as the years fly by. Our stay on this planet is shorter that we are inclined to think.

It does not require divine revelation to know that. As George Bernard Shaw put it, “The statistics on

death are impressive. One out of one dies.” Our lives are like sand castles, destined for impermanence.

This may seem pessimistic and morbid, but upon closer analysis, it is realistic and a hopeful approach.

Realistic because it is better to know things as they are than to believe things as they seem. Hopeful

because it informs us that there is more to life than what we presently see. This perspective on time

assures us that what we long for is more than a dream – this world is not all there is. The key to this

dilemma is Psalm 90:12….”Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Moses is saying unless we understand that life is brief and place proper value on the time we have (long

or short) we will never gain a wise heart. Opening prayer

MAIN TOPIC: Julie Morgenstern system, Stephen Covey system (each outline number is a power point

slide)

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1. Julie Morgenstern, professional organizer known for organizing space (e.g., closets, rooms).

a. Book: Time management from the Inside Out.

b. Finds organizing time is the same as organizing space.

c. Trick is knowing what fits (I.E. closet or 24 hour in day)

d. Six tools for aligning time commitments with time available

2. Tool #1: Self-assessment. Technical errors. External realities. Psychological obstacles.

3. Tool #2: Estimating how long a task will take.

4. Tool #3: The 4 D’s. If you can’t do a task, you have four alternatives. Delete, delay, delegate,

and diminish.

5. Tool #4: Develop a big-picture view.

6. Tool #5: Time maps

7. Tool #6: Planner. Sort things and group similar items (batching). Purge unessential’s, assign a

place for everything, containerize, use time maps to define the parameters of each meaningful

activity, and equalize, periodically reassess the effectiveness of your system.

8. View sample pages from Morgenstern book.

9. Stephen Covey, known author for 7 Habits for Highly Effective People also wrote First Things

First. Covey has an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University.

Founder of the Covey Leadership Center. First Things First is a time management approach

intended to achieve "effectiveness" by aligning him to "First Things." A further development of

7 Habits for Highly Effective People.

10. Covey asserts there are three generations of time management. First Generation – task lists.

Second Generation – personal organizers with deadlines, and third generation, values

clarification as incorporated in the Franklin Planner.

11. Using the "the clock and the compass," Covey asserts that identifying primary roles and

principles provides a "true north". “True north” is used when deciding what activities are most

important. Decisions are guided not merely by the "clock" of scheduling but by the "compass"

of purpose and values.

12. People have a need "to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy" they propose moving beyond

"urgency addiction" into what they call "quadrant two" management.

13. Quadrant I – Important and Urgent – crises, deadline-driven projects, and pressing problems

Quadrant II – Important and Not Urgent – preparation, planning, and relationship building

Quadrant III – Not Important and Urgent – interruptions, most phone calls and mail and reports

Quadrant IV – Not Important and Not Urgent – trivia, busywork, time wasters, and escape

activities

14. page 37 chart of quadrants

15. Sample pages from Covey

16. What to do with this information?

PRAYER PARTNER: Share with your partner discoveries made while tracking your time this last

week. Is this how you want to spend time? Are these the most important elements to you? If not, what

can you do to change? What have you learned new today for your time management? Pray for each

other.

SESSION FIVE Time, humor and options

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FELLOWSHIP (OPTIONAL): Where are you? Pick a year or a date before the meeting and then give

each person a chance to tell what they were doing on that date (Jan ‘87, Summer ‘90).

BIBLE TIME: A time for everything, Ecclesiastes 3: 1 – 15. Read through 2 times slowly. What do

these words say to you? What word or phrase jumps out? Share thoughts with your prayer partner.

Open with prayer.

MAIN TOPIC Introduction of Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon profession. Video made in November,

2007. Less than 3 months before he died of pancreatic cancer. He is speaking to students at the

University of Virginia. Randy’s video is somewhat dated as three years is old when we speak of

technology. We will stop at different points and comment/update. Consider taking notes of his key

phrases. Randy has a humor and perspective of time that is motivational.

Randy’s speech can be viewed on www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0 or go to YouTube

Carnegie Mellon Randy Pausch Time Management.

Randy Pausch’s power point slides that go with You Tube can be downloaded from

www.slideshare.net. Slide Share requires registration but is free and offers many different

presentations.

The You Tube presentation will have to be cut short to fit a one hour session. See Handout

Session 5 Randy Pausch You Tube notes with time markings. Fit the Pausch presentation to

your participant’s needs or break into two sessions.

WHOLE GROUP PRAYER TIME AND CLASS EVALUATION: Lead the class is final prayer. Class

evaluation includes a couple simple questions such as: What was most helpful? What was least

helpful? Suggestions for future sessions related to time.

In summary, after 5 weeks class participants would discovery areas of their life where time is

challenging. Changing habits and one’s life style does not come easily for most people. For this reason

the last two sessions can easily be expanded, if the group desires. Session 4 could be broken into two

sessions: one with Covey and one with Morgenstern. Session 5, You Tube of Randy Pausch, can easily

take two sessions. Each additional week gives more support to change, ideas for change and

accountability. Participants may feel the need to go to a more intensive training session. Those options

can be mentioned. In essence, these sessions cast a vision for how participants want to manage time and

help them take the initial steps to achieving that vision.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Classic KINDLE. “Life Plan”. Bloomington: KINDLE, 2008

Covey, Stephen R., Merrill, A. Roger, & Merrill, Rebecca R. First Things First: To Live, to Love, to

Learn, to Leave a Legacy. New York: Free Press, 1994.

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Covey, Stephan R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Training Manual, Version 2). Singapore:

Franklin Covey Co, 1998.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth B. Resource Management for Individuals and Families (Fourth Edition). Upper

Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2010.

Life Application Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

Morgenstern, Julie. Time Management From The Inside Out. New York: Owl Books, 2004.

Rainer, Thom S. & Rainer, Art. Simple Life. Nashville: LifeWay Press, 2003.

Schmidt, Eugene. “Time Management: Stewardship of Self”. Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

Timothy Program, 2009.

Stanley, Andy. Take It To The Limit: How To Get The Most Out Of Life (Study Guide and DVD).

Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2005.

WEB SITE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carnegie Mellon University. “Time Management by Randy Pausch”. YouTube. 6-February-2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0. (7-May-2010)

Guest5a222b. “Time Management by Randy Pausch”. Slide share.

http://www.slideshare.net/guest5a222b/time-management-by-randy-pausch. (10-May-2010)

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HANDOUTS

SESSION ONE Hand out #1

__________Professional __________Civic/Social __________Religious/spiritual

__________Physical/recreational __________Family/household

From Take It To The Limit: How to Get The Most Out Of Life by Andy Stanley, North Point Resources, 2005

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SESSION ONE Handout #2

Each group take two questions, discuss, and share with the group.

1. What are some of the factors that determine how you time is spent? 2. Why do we tend to overlook God as a source of wisdom for our schedules? 3. What are some criteria you could use to help you determine the wise thing to do with regard to your schedule? 4. What are some of the things that compete for the first few moments of each day? 5. What might be different if your habit was to spend the first few moments of each day with God?

From Take It To The Limit: How to Get The Most Out Of Life by Andy Stanley, North Point Resources, 2005

SESSION TWO Handout #3 Life Areas

Choose 5-6 areas that you consider core areas of your life. You might call these “critical targets”. If you had health in this

handful of areas, your life would be abundant. Some possibilities are:

God Health Fun Home Career Family Friendships Marriage Education Business Children Writing Finances Other____________ From Classic KINDLE Life Plan Worksheet

SESSION THREE Sample Time Assessment #1 (full page available)

Name

Date

Record your activities during a typical 24 hour day in 30 minute increments.

Time Hour/Minute Activity

SESSION THREE Sample Time Assessment #2 (full page available)

Name

Date

Activity

Business Function

time

Notes

6:00 - 6:15

6:15 - 6:30

6:30 - 6:45

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6:45 - 7:00

7:00 - 7:15

SESSION FIVE Sample Randy Pausch you tube notes with time markings [total time 1 hr 16 min]

YouTube Time Note

0:00 Introduction: Authority on limited time. Content of lecture

5:59 Bad at time as a commodity. Equate time and money. Manage time like you manage money. You

can earn more money later – can’t get time back.

10:18 Time Famine. Problem with time is systemic.

11:15 Life advice…enjoy life, goal is fun

12:40 Waste

(Full You Tube with time markings available)