1. Team C aring R esourceful I ntelligent B usiness S tudents Team Members Angela Spranza, Abbey Strickland Jay Sandridge, Eric Gomez Will Yelton, Lena Lozito

2. Forming  Pickle Jar  Listing  Priorities  Focusing  Conclusion

3. Pickle Jar  4 Main Components Rocks Pebbles Sand Water

4. Rocks  Largest Components  Top Priorities  Relatively Few  Great Cost  Huge Reward

5. Pebbles  Smaller Version of Rocks  Rocks’ Little Brothers  Help Support and Deliver Results  More Room, More Results

6. Sand  Fun Activities  Make Work Enjoyable  Require Little Effort  Minimal Impact

7. Water  “Must-do’s” in Disguise  Time Consuming  Never-ending

8. Types of Jars  Water Jar  Fun Jar of Sand  Pebble Pusher  Rock Star Jar

9. Benefits of Listing  Regain Control  Become More Efficient  Satisfaction

10. Common Mistakes When Listing  Clarify  Be Realistic  Commit

11. What is Prioritizing?  Setting aside the most important tasks that need to be addressed and completed.

12. How to Prioritize?  Choose Tasks with Greatest Impact  Tasks that Help You Grow in Your Career  Tasks that Helps Make or Save Money

13. Prioritizing put into Action  Priority Rule One Don’t prioritize your schedule, schedule your priorities  Priority Rule Two Reserve prime time for you  Priority Rule Three Stay focused on the priority

14. Focusing  Three Points to Staying Focused Beat procrastination Learn to love deadlines Learn to disengage from interruptions

15. Procrastination  How to Beat it Step 1: Recognize. ○ Easier tasks, personal business first, etc. Step 2: Why are you procrastinating? ○ Not enjoyable or overwhelming? Step 3: Get over it! ○ Rewards ○ Start small

16. Deadlines  Deadlines are Important! Make things happen Must be just right Must prioritize before deadlines

17. Deadlines  Deadlines get Results Stretch, but don’t break  Make it Public  Just do Something Starting is the hardest part

18. Interruption  How to Disengage Use their name Be positive and responsive Suggest a better time

19. Interruption  “No” is an Act of Self-Preservation  You Cannot Satisfy Everyone  Use the USA Method

20. Conclusion  Pickle Jar  Listing  Priorities  Focusing/Procrastination