Month: October 2025

Manage Your Spark to Ignite Your Passion and Power Your Potential

2025 NEAFCS Annual Session

October 20-23, 2025 ~ Grand Rapids, MI

Join us as we SPARK connections, SPARK innovations, SPARK communities, and SPARK growth. #NEAFCS2025

The Central Region invites you to ignite your SPARK at NEAFCS 2025 Annual Session in Grand Rapids. We want annual session participants to illuminate connections with each other, burn with innovative ideas, radiate passion into your communities and shine bright with personal and professional growth.

Manage Your Spark to Ignite Your Passion and Power Your Potential

Presenters:

Shannon Carter, MS, Assistant Professor,​ carter.413@osu.edu ​

​Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator, ​powers-barker.1@osu.edu ​

​Melissa J. Rupp, AFC®, Assistant Professor, ​rupp.26@osu.edu

Content from session:

Time Management Resources:

For your work plan, recommended supplies:

  • Your data
  • Hard copy, monthly calendar for upcoming years such as https://www.calendar-12.com/printable_calendar/2025 
  • Pens, markers, post-it notes, dry erase board and/or poster sized paper to write on, worksheets, other planning tools
  • Copy of organization(s) mission and vision. For example, our Extension mission and vision but also others such as a professional organization or your personal list of values.
  • Your “reward” – how will you make this important task as enjoyable as possible? Partners? Lunch break at a favorite restaurant?

References:

Atlassian. (2022, January 13) 7 productivity methods: which one’s just right for you? Retrieved October 2, 2025, from www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/7-productivity-methods  ​

(2019, October 3). 9 Proven Time Management Techniques and Tools | USAHS. University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://www.usa.edu/blog/time-management-techniques/

Carter, S. (2023, January 17). Winter Wellness. Live Healthy Live Well. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://u.osu.edu/livehealthyosu/2023/01/17/winter-wellness/

Cloyd, S. (n.d.). Productivity: The Time Chunking Method. Rhodes College. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://sites.rhodes.edu/academic-and-learning-resources/news/productivity-time-chunking-method

Eastern Washington University (n.d.). Goal Setting. CALE Learning Enhancement. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://inside.ewu.edu/calelearning/psychological-skills/goal-setting/

Harder, A. & Narine, L. (2020). Personal Health, Role, and Time Management Competency Training Needs of Extension Agents in Florida. The Journal of Extension, 58(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.01.19

Lobb, J. (2019, March 14). Need an Energy Boost? Live Healthy Live Well. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://livehealthyosu.com/2019/03/14/need-an-energy-boost/

Lokenauth, A. (n.d.) Productivity Cheat Sheet. Retrieved October 2, 2025 from  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/business-infographics_productivity-cheat-sheet-credits-to-andrew-activity-7176277064835096579-PftG ​

Nine Proven Time Management Techniques and Tools. University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences. Retrieved October 2, 2025 from https://www.usa.edu/blog/time-management-techniques/

Oppong, T. (2022, July 22). The Purpose-Driven Approach to Getting One Thing Done Faster. Medium. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://thomas-oppong.medium.com/purpose-driven-productivity-17670b5345ab

Powers-Barker, P. (2021, November 15). Now and Later: The Paradox of Living in the Moment and Planning for the Future. Retrieved October 2, 2025 from https://livehealthyosu.com/2021/11/15/now-and-later-the-paradox-of-living-in-the-moment-and-planning-for-the-future/

Russell, M. B., Attoh, P. A., Chase, T., Gong, T., Kim, J., & Liggans, G. L. (2019). Burnout and Extension Educators: Where We Are and Implications for Future Research. Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 7(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.54718/SFPK7165

Russell, M. B., & Liggans, G. L. (2020). Burnout: Examining the Effects of Job Characteristics Across Extension Disciplines. The Journal of Extension, 58(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.01.20 ​

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (n.d.). Distractions. The Learning Center. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/take-charge-of-distractions/

Time Management: Time Waster Survey. Murry State College. Tishomingo, OK. Retrieved October 2, 2025 from https://archive.mscok.edu/Content/Uploads/Murray%20State%20College/files/Academic%20Coaching/Time%20Waster%20Survey.pdf

Western Oregon University (n.d.). Finding Purpose. Student Health and Counseling Center. Retrieved October 2, 2025, from https://wou.edu/health/resources/student-health-101/spiritual-wellness/finding-purpose/