Activity 2.1.5 A Personal Daily Living Priority Check

Purpose

To practise prioritizing activities and setting time commitments

Materials

Handout–Personal Daily Living Priority Check List

Time

30 mins initially, and ongoing practise for one or more weeks

Method

1. Facilitators can begin by asking participants what they consider to be important things in their lives, e.g., owning a house, having a job, etc. Record their answers and discuss how they would rate these for themselves. Use the terms very important, somewhat important, and not important.
2. Hand out and review the Personal Daily Living Priority Checklist. Ask participants to rate the priorities on this list according to the instructions on the handout. They are then to keep this list posted or in a place where it can be easily viewed each day.
3. Ask participants to review their list on a daily basis for one week and put a checkmark beside the priorities that they had fulfilled for that day. This gives participants a chance to see how much time or effort they are actually giving to, or not giving to, their very important priorities.
4. After one week, ask participants to now make a new list with only the very important daily living priorities that they had previously selected. They are to keep this list posted where it can be easily viewed each day and practise committing more time to their very important priorities. Again, they should put a checkmark to show that they have committed some time to fulfilling this priority.