1. Control Your Own Destiny Or Someone Else Will
An Underlying Principle:
Effectiveness requires balancing important relationships, roles and activities.
Key Paradigms:
“Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
“I fulfill my mission by acting on important goals in my key roles.”

2. Habit 3: Put First Things First

3. WHAT’S MY LOCUS OF CONTROL? (What controls my choices)
High Internal – I am the master of my fate – I control my choices
High External – I am a pawn to my fate – Other people or things control my choices

4. Habit 3 Put First Things First
Prioritize
Actions flow from that which is important.
This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. It’s living life according to what matters most.
Use Your Assignment Notebook DAILY!

5. Habit 3: Put First Things First
I am a:
Procrastinator – I always put things off
Yes-man – I say yes to everything but don’t always follow through
Slacker – I don’t do anything
Prioritizer – I use my assignment notebook and do what I need to do
Procrastinator
Prioritizer
Will your life fit more if you organize yourself better. As the diagram suggests we can be anyone of four types. As I go through them, ask yourself, “Which quadrant do I spend most of my time in?”
Procrastinator: All things are both urgent and important. They put things off until they are a ‘stress case’ They are addicted to urgency until it becomes a crisis. They often say they thrive under pressure. Results - stress and anxiety, burnout, mediocre performance
The Yes-Man: Things are urgent but not important. Usually trying to please others. Loaded down with activities that are important to other people but not important to themselves - would like to say no…but don’t. They often cave into peer pressure because they do not have enough courage or backbone to turn others down. Results - reputation as a ‘pleaser’, lack discipline, feel like a doormat
Slacker: Nothing is important or urgent. The professional loafer who is often a big couch potato or a walking TV guide. Wastes a lot of time. Results - lacks responsibility, guilt, flakiness.
Prioritizer: things are important but not urgent. EXCELLENCE! Takes a little more planning. They have got it together and do their best work. Avoids stress and burnout. People who matter come first and life is balanced. Can say no with a smile. Resist peer pressure and come to be respected for it. Results - control of life, balance, high performance.
We all spend time in each quadrant, key is to get into the Prioritizer!
ROCKS demonstration
Planner (agenda): highly recommend good use, that’s why period 8. Designed to help you free up your time by being organized.
Plan weekly: take 15 minutes Sunday night to plan your week.
Step one: Identify your BIG rocks. What are the most important things you need to do this week? at the most.
Step two: block in time for the big rocks.
Step three: fit in the pebbles, the little everyday things that suck up your time - chores, phone calls, computer time, tv
Step four: start to identify the SAND in your life, those little things that can negatively take up a lot of time and become really bothersome if allowed to persist.
Step five: Remember there is always room for water (special occasions/emergencies) even if you think your life is full!
Adapt daily: be flexible, you may need to rearrange one of the few things that cannot be recycled is wasted time. On her deathbed Queen Elizabeth the first wished “All my possession for one moment of time.”
Yes-Man
Slacker
As I go through them, ask yourself, “Which quadrant do I spend most of my time in?”

6. Procrastinator: All things are both urgent and important
. Procrastinator: All things are both urgent and important. They put things off until they are a ‘stress case’ They are addicted to urgency. They often say they thrive under pressure. Results - stress and anxiety, burnout, mediocre performance. The Yes-Man: Things are urgent but not important. Usually trying to please others. Loaded down with activities that are important to other people but not important to themselves - would like to say no…but don’t. They often cave into peer pressure because they do not have enough courage or backbone to turn others down. Results - reputation as a ‘pleaser’, lack discipline, feel like a doormat.

7. Slacker: Nothing is important or urgent
Slacker: Nothing is important or urgent. The professional loafer who is often a big couch potato or a walking TV guide. Wastes a lot of time. Results - lacks responsibility, guilt, flakiness. Prioritizer: things are important but not urgent. EXCELLENCE! Takes a little more planning. They have got it together and do their best work. Avoids stress and burnout. People who matter come first and life is balanced. Can say no with a smile. Resist peer pressure and come to be respected for it. Results - control of life, balance, high performance. We all spend time in each quadrant, key is to get into the Prioritizer!

8. Fill in (other tasks) pebbles/sand/water
Habit a demonstration.
What is the lesson?
Identify big rocks(Prioritize important tasks) and schedule these FIRST!
Fill in (other tasks) pebbles/sand/water

9. Plan weekly: take 15 minutes Sunday night to plan your week.
Step one: Identify your BIG rocks. What are the most important things you need to do this week? at the most.
Step two: block in time for the big rocks.
Step three: fit in the pebbles, the little everyday things that suck up your time - chores, phone calls, computer time, tv
Step four: start to identify the SAND in your life, those little things that can negatively take up a lot of time and become really bothersome if allowed to persist.
Step five: Remember there is always room for water (special occasions/emergencies) even if you think your life is full!
Adapt daily: be flexible, you may need to rearrange - one of the few things that cannot be recycled is wasted time.

10. The Time Management Matrix
Urgent
Not Urgent
Important
I The ____________
Exam tomorrow
Friend gets injured
Late for work/class
Project due today
II The _____________
Planning, goal setting
Paper due in a week
Exercise
Relationships/relaxation
Not Important
III The _____________
Unimportant phone calls
Interruptions
Other people’s small problems
Peer pressure
IV The ___________
Too much TV
Endless phone calls
Excessive computer games
Mall marathons
Other time wasters

11. Ineffective (doesn’t work well)
Crisis Management
Running around putting out fires

12. The Time Management Matrix
Urgent
Results:
Stress
Burnout
Crisis management
Always putting out fires
Important
I The Procrastinator

13. The Time Management Matrix
Results:
Short-term focus
Crisis management
Reputation-chameleon type character
See goals and plans as worthless
Feel victimized, out of control
Shallow or broken relationships
Urgent
Not Important
III The Yes-man

14. The Time Management Matrix
Results:
Total irresponsibility
Fired from jobs
Dependent on others or institutions for basics
Not Urgent
Not Important
IV The Slacker

15. Ineffective (doesn’t work well)
Jump to Others
Wait for others to tell me what to do

16. Ineffective (doesn’t work well)
Whimsical
Do whatever you feel like doing

17. Ineffective (doesn’t work well)
First Come - First Served
Handle tasks in the order in which they arrive

18. Ineffective (doesn’t work well)
Priority Meandering
Start on task a
get distracted
resume on task b
jump to task c

19. The Time Management Matrix
Not Urgent
Results:
Vision, perspective
Balance
Discipline
Control
Few crises
Important
II The Prioritizer

20. Habit 3: Put first things first.
Urgent
Not Urgent
Quadrant I
Crises
Deadline driven projects Pressing Problems
Quadrant II:
Preparation
Prevention
Commitment
Relationship building
Important
Quadrant III
Unimportant phone calls, , meetings or reports
Interruptions
Quadrant IV
Trivia
Busy work
Time wasters
Not Important
We want Quadrant II > Quadrant I.
Quadrant II comes from Quadrants III and IV.
 Estimate how much time you spend in Quadrant II (and what IS Quad IV for you?) ...
 How do you plan your day? Datebook? Palm Pilot?
 How much is your time worth to you, in dollars/hour?

21. Long - Term Organizing
Mission Statement
Roles
Goals

22. Weekly Organizing
Roles
Goals
Plans
Schedule
Delegate

23. Quote From Mr. Echols… “To get the best value from your education, do all of your homework to the best of your ability and turn it in on time!”

24. The END