Calendar Management Personal Priorities and Projects Jeff Adams

The Bank Account of Time Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!! Each of us has such a bank. It’s name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the “tomorrow.” You must live in the present of today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.

Time Management “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” Anthony Robbins

Personal Priorities A Few Words About Budgeting – Decide what your money will do or it will tell you what you can do. “My financial life began turning around when I took responsibility for it.” Dave Ramsey, Total Money Makeover

Personal Priorities A Few Words About Budgeting – Decide how you will consume and spend calories or they will determine your body fat percentage. “The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.” Jack LaLanne

Personal Priorities A Few Words About Budgeting – Tell your time where you want it spent or time will decide for you. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau

Personal Priorities What are your priorities?CollegeFamilyMoneyFriendsSportsBackpackingGardening In what order?

Personal Priorities Take out a Piece of Paper –Draw a line down the middle from top to bottom –On the left side, write down the important priorities in your life –Try to group and rank them in order of importance (priority)

Personal Priorities Same Piece of Paper –On the Right side, write down everything that has consumed your time over the last two months. –Connect items on the right to their priority on the left –Is the bulk of your time being spent on your most important priorities? –You will never get to your goal if you don’t get bossy with your time.

ProjectsProjects Prioritize your project time as you would your own time.

ProjectsProjects Projects are a series of small goals leading up to one larger goal. Be S.M.A.R.T. about it.

ProjectsProjects EventDateMore Information SOLV Beach Clean upMarch 20, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tracked in President’s Book TBCC Open HouseApril 17 9am-3pmBarb, Jeff, Melita, AmyK. Spring Regional Convention (Manucha) May 7-9Barb, Jeff, Mohammad, Peter attended. Officer Elections20 May, 1 pmJeff or Barb Induction14 May, 5:30 pmJeff or Barb

Project Skills Worksheet Identify people with key skills and abilities before you assign tasks.

Project Gantt Chart If you can identify a member with MSD 179 (Project Management), USE THEM!

Project Critical Path Know what needs to be done, in what order, and what can be done in Parallel.

Personal Priorities Plan your work, work your plan. “Success is the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.” John C. Maxwell

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