"It's really embarrassing," a friend of mine confided in me recently. "I'm supposed to teach a time management class tomorrow, and I haven't even started on the lesson plans." We both laughed at the irony that a time management teacher had trouble with time management herself.

But my friend is far from being alone. Even those who teach time management sometimes have trouble getting our time management lesson plans together.

If you, like my friend, are stumped, these time management lesson plans tips will help get you back on track.

Why The Resistance?

You're a time management expert, so why can't you use your skills to put together amazing time management lesson plans? Sit with these answers for a few minutes, acknowledge them and then release or "box" them away in a separate corner of your mind.

Develop Objectives

What do you want your students to walk away knowing about time management? Your time management lessons plans will be very different if you're focused on the emotional barrier of procrastination rather than on the practical barrier of having difficulties with "to do" lists.

Assign Steps

For instance, if you're teaching students how to use time management to study effectively, your steps might include writing down all assignments, estimating the length of time it will take to complete them, breaking down larger projects into small ones and starting in plenty of time to get each task accomplished.

If you're venturing into the more psychological/emotional aspects of time management, your steps might include topics like helping students to determine when they are more likely to procrastinate and why, writing affirmations to raise self confidence, and having each student recall a specific incident when they succeeded in spite of themselves.

Each step deserves anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours in your time management lesson plans. How long you spend on each step will depend on how long you have with your students. If your class will last three hours a night over the course of several weeks, you'll obviously have time to cover more than if your class will only last a couple of hours on a weekend afternoon.

Do Your Homework…And Have Your Students Do Theirs

With PowerPoint so readily available these days, you should have no trouble putting together information for your students. But why stop with your own notes? Why not recommend books they can purchase and read to learn more about the topic. You may also want to scour the web for additional resources for our time management lesson plans.

Just remember that unless it explicitly says otherwise, someone holds the copyright to web articles, whether that person happens to be the writer or the publisher. You cannot print these pages off the web and give them to students without violating copyright law. You can, however, give students the URL and encourage them to check the articles out.

Time management lesson plans do not have to be boring or scary. In fact, they can be a lot of fun. So, instead of worrying about your time management lesson plans, why not take a few moments to site down right now and complete them?