POG - DAY 1

Establishing Priorities:

Making a Plan and Following Through

• balancing leisure and responsibilities

• social pressures

• the stress of choosing between what you need to do vs. want to do

• finding a healthy balance throughout your life.

In this lesson we will learn about:

1. Analyze how social pressures can impact your ability to follow through with responsibilities.

2. Identify strategies to establish priorities to help you balance leisure and school work or responsibilities.

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Lesson Objectives

Match

Shared vocabulary:

• social pressure

• priority

• leisure

• establish

influence from people you interact with

given more importance than other things

free time

to set up

• influence from people you interact with

• given more importance than other things

• free time

• to set up

Open Ended

JOURNAL: Why is planning such an important piece to being successful? Can you give examples of a time when you were planned/ under-planned for an important event in your life? Were you successful or unsuccessful in the end? Do you think being prepared/ planned help OR being did being underprepared and unplanned hinder?

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Now...

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Prioritizing the good in our life!

The Jar of Life

How can prioritizing some things over others affect your life?

Priorities - Whatever you MUST, YOU WILL!

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Finding a balance between fun and responsibilities is something everyone struggles with!

The balance

Social pressures and social media can add to our stress and affect our decisions on how we spend our time.

Social butterfly

Utilizing strategies to find a balance in our day to day lives can help us feel more in control.

Make a plan

Key Takeaways

Categorize

Options (11)

Setting a timer on your phone for getting started on responsibilities OR limiting time on fun

Doom scrolling on your phone

Always choosing to reward yourself with the "fun" option before dealing with responsibilities

Going into a situation with a game plan

Setting goals for who you want to be

Letting your friends' opinions sway your decisions

Saving all your school work for later rather than using allotted class time

Asking for help

Being honest about what matters to you individually

Letting procrastination get the best of you

Switching between choosing the "fun" option or "responsible" option to do first

Organize these options into the right categories

Finding balance

Losing balance

Open Ended

EXIT SLIP: What would you expect to gain by becoming a better manager of your time

and becoming more organized? Write down one thing that you have coming up in your life that you would

like to plan for. Create a task list on how you plan to accomplish your

upcoming task/goal.

Example: Pass my Spanish test

-Study my vocab for 5 min everyday

-Do the study guide

-Make flashcards

Poll

A penny for your thoughts?

• This was helpful and informative.

• This was somewhat helpful and I learned a few things.

• This was a little bit helpful and I learned at least one thing new.

• This was not helpful, I didn't learn anything new.