Time Management (part 2)

From the following lesson 

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Lesson 2: Managing Time Using Righteous Priorities

Ask your family to pretend they are in the following situation:
Someone calls, “Help, the neighbor’s house is on fire!” As you rush to help the neighbors, which of the following would you do first? Carry out the furniture, call for help, save members of the family, or get the car out of the garage? Why did you choose as you did?
Discuss with the family the fact that all of these things are important, but saving the family members is the most important, so it is the thing you should do first.
Explain that in this situation it is very easy to see that one thing is more important than other things and so must be done first. But every day we must decide which are the most important things for us to do that day, and often we have a hard time making the right decisions.
Ask family members to list, in as much detail as possible, the things they did during the last two days. Have them set these lists aside for a few minutes.
Explain that our first priority in this life is to do the things that will help us return to our Father in Heaven. We are commanded to seek first to establish the kingdom of God (see Matthew 6:33).

• • What are some things that you do each day that help you or other people to return to our Father in Heaven?
  

They may name such things as serving other people, spending time with family members, working hard at school or job, making home a clean and pleasant place to be.
Ask family members to look at the list of things they did during the last two days and decide what this list says about their priorities. Have they been doing the things that are most important or have they been spending much of their time doing things that do not really matter?
You may want to have family members make a list of the things they want to do to help themselves and others return to our Father in Heaven. They could then make a plan for how they will use their time during the next week, making sure that they plan to get the things they have listed done.
You may want to spend another evening evaluating the effectiveness of the family’s plans for using their time.

RESOURCES

Scriptures

Joshua 24:15 (Choose you this day.)
John 14:15, 21 (He that loveth me keepeth my commandments.)
2 Nephi 2:27 (We can choose.) 

I like this and appreciate that part of time management is prioritizing. There are so many good things to do in life, but we should focus on the best things.