Are you managing?

1. This thing devours all, birds, beasts, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal, slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down. What is it?

Explain what you think is the meaning of these sayings:
Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go.

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me when it talked.

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.

Time is Money. Which do you think is the most important, time or money? Provide the reason for your choice.

2. Make a Venn diagram to compare money and time. If you have some difficulty distinguishing between the 2, ask for some ideas.

3. a. List your activities (club meetings, church, sports, practices, etc) that you have planned outside of school.

b. What do you do for fun when you leave school (not including the above activities)?

c. How do you stay organized? Do you keep planners, agendas, calendars?

d. What type of organizational tips would you offer other students? Do you have tips that help you? (Example: Do you schedule the easiest task for last? Or the hardest? Why?)

e. Do you feel you have enough time or do you think your lack of time makes you feel stressed or overwhelmed? If you are feeling stressed from a lack of time, what techniques might be helpful?

f. If you think of time as money, do you think you spend your time wisely? What are some changes that you might make?

g. If someone gave you ten extra dollars today, how would you spend them? If someone gave you three extra hours today, how would you spend them?

4. Think of time as money as you answer these questions:
a. Are we ever guilty of freely giving away our time? Should we be so free with time and/or money? Think of ways that you “waste” time and/or money. Are there similarities and differences in the ways we spend or save our time and money?

b. Should you and can you “bank” time much like money? What would you do would do if they could find time or money?