GCCCD Time Management Matrix Project
Description
Assignment:
- Watch the short 3-minute video Jar of Life. (Links to an external site.)
- After watching the Jar of Life video, write down three of the “golf balls” in your life. In other words, what are the three most important things in your life? Identifying the important things in your life, will help you to prioritize how to make decisions on how you spend your time.
- Watch the short 5-minute video Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix (Links to an external site.).
- After watching the Time-Management Matrix video, you will notice that all of our actions fall into one of the four quadrants. Write a list of 15 or more specific actions you have taken in the past two days. Be specific. It could be watching TV, writing an essay for your English class, going to dinner with friends, taking care of an elderly parent or young child, or posting on social media apps, getting ready for the day etc., Be sure to include a variety of actions.
- Write down the four quadrants as you saw in the video, then take your list of 15+ actions from step 2A and write them down in the appropriate quadrant on your chart.
- Quadrant 1 Important, Urgent
- Quadrant 2 Important, Not Urgent
- Quadrant 3 Not Important, Urgent
- Quadrant 4 Not Important, Not Urgent
- After watching both videos, write a paragraph about your thoughts and feelings. Use this as an opportunity to learn more about yourself. Remember that your response is confidential so only I (Professor) will be reading your answers. Feel free to engage in deep self-reflection. Be sure to address the following in your paragraph:
- Write about one thing you have learned from the Jar of Life video, and be sure to discuss how you will apply it to your life moving forward.
- Write about one thing you have learned from the Time Management Matrix video, and be sure to discuss how you will apply it to your life moving forward.
- Looking back to activity 2A, in which quadrant do you spend the most time?
- What different choices, if any, do you intend to make about how you use time?
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