The RI HOPE Student Leadership Team is the most talented and humble group of teens I have the privilege to mentor week in and week out.
Today during the Student Leadership Development breakout session, we reviewed the "Time Management" lesson from the ICC Navigator Curriculum. I wanted to assess how the team members are managing time and teach them that time management means more than just scheduling all of our tasks and responsibilities. After we reviewed the Eisenhower Matrix from Navigator Week 7, we watched the TED Talk: The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer.
My goal was to ask them to practice scheduling intentional rest, reflection, and recreation time into their lives. They had found that they were over-scheduled and they had not experience the "ideal day" that would have been more relaxed. Some of the student leaders realized that they spent a lot of time on their phone or computer, or doing things that they considered "recreation" or "fun".
In our discussion we had to think about managing time well. The fact is, it’s easy to let time slip away, but it’s also easy to overload ourselves and put too much weight on doing more and more things. I asked them "Why is it important to take intentional time to rest?"
In the TED Talk, Pico Iyer talked about the importance of intentional "Stillness". It gives us time to reflect. Our bodies and minds need down time. It’s healthy to relax and refresh. It gives us time to do things we enjoy, which we may not ever get to if we’re always working on other things.
At the end of our session, I asked them, "What can you gain from intentional rest and relaxation time?" My hope is that they will learn to plan time to reflect, rest or enjoy recreation in an intentionally.
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