Time Management as a Component of Life-Creation in the System of Spiritual and Intellectual Upbringing and Teaching

Abstract

  Life is our time, and managing one's life, one's destiny is time management (one has goals, plans, and one knows what one wants to spend the time of one's life, one's energy, one's money on). After all, managing one's destiny is managing one's time and one's inner state. Time is one of the basic values of life — it cannot be returned, bought or taken away. Time management — effective time disposal, planning, organization of life — together with the management of life situations, fate management — is the basis of life creation, which can and should be taught to young people. The ability to live according to plans is what distinguishes a strong person (integral, active, decision — action — result) from a weak person (contradictory, inert — does what he/she wants momentarily and gets accordingly). A modern person in one way or another thinks about the question of how to properly dispose of this value — the time of his life. Therefore, the education system should pay significant attention to the issues of learning to manage one's life time from school, starting with understanding the value of time and adequate attitude to it. The study of these issues is an important, significant part of a person's preparation for life and should begin in secondary school and be consolidated in higher school as a holistic system of teaching life-creativity. Based on the analysis of known and own researches, the author offers a set of questions on teaching time management as part of the system of teaching life-creativity in secondary and higher schools. The proposed methodology includes training in solving problems of goal-setting, formation of life rhythms, planning and keeping a diary. The study of this set of issues should be organized in such a way as to cover the cycle of formation of persistent beliefs in the mind: understanding, motivation, skills, actions, results, reflection. It is important that at each turn of the learning spiral the trainees receive tangible results and inner satisfaction, then the motivation and aspiration to achieve even more significant results increases. The introduction into the education system of the tasks of teaching life creation and, in particular, the integrated approach to time management will prepare the young generation for independent life at a much higher level, will instill confidence in the future, relying on their own strength, personal qualities, will allow consciously build their lives, realize the best possible fate. The proposed integrated approach to time management, the given recommendations on motivation of pupils/students and understanding the logic of processes, as well as principles, rules, techniques and algorithms will contribute to the further development of methodological materials and textbooks for their implementation in the educational process.