{
  "lessonDate": "2026-09-03",
  "lessonNumber": 194,
  "lessonTitle": "Organizing Tasks and Priorities",
  "semester": "fall-2026-ot",
  "source": "Seminary manual, Lesson 194 — Succeed in School (Life Preparation)",
  "scriptureBlock": "Abraham 4–5; Psalm 37:23–24; 1 Corinthians 14:40; Mosiah 4:27",
  "bookName": "SUCCEED IN SCHOOL",
  "deckType": "lifeprep",

  "lessonObjective": "Help students take one overwhelming pile of schoolwork and bring order to it the way the Creation was ordered — light first, big broken into small, and a stop to notice what was good.",

  "doctrinePrinciple": "Having order in our lives helps us follow the example of Jesus Christ.",

  "personalScriptureStudy": {
    "chapters": "Abraham 4:1–25 and 5:1–3",
    "questions": "This is the Creation told as a work plan. What did They do first? How did They handle the biggest tasks? And why did They stop to say that it was good?"
  },

  "teacherNote": "SUPPLIES: a jigsaw puzzle — 100 pieces is plenty — with the box lid hidden. A recipe or a flat-pack instruction sheet works too. Student prep was to list this week's schoolwork; ask them to have that list out during Card 1. The manual's six-statement self-assessment (very true / somewhat true / untrue) is worth reading aloud if there is time — say out loud that it stays private, and note that the manual warns some students will find it discouraging. Handout: \"Organizing and Prioritizing My Schoolwork.\" Extra passages for the board: Psalm 37:23–24; 1 Corinthians 14:40; Doctrine and Covenants 28:13; 132:8. Third of four Succeed in School lessons (192-195); 195 (procrastination) is still open for a later Life Preparation day.",

  "cards": [
    {
      "card": 0,
      "layout": "lifeprep-activity",
      "sectionName": "THE ACTIVITY",
      "tagline": "Same pieces. Different order.",
      "title": "SUCCEED IN SCHOOL — DUMP THE PUZZLE",
      "subtitle": "Trying Harder Will Not Sort This Pile.",
      "challengeHead": "THE CHALLENGE",
      "challengeText": "One jigsaw puzzle poured onto the table, with the box lid hidden. Effort will not sort it and speed will not sort it. A pattern will.",
      "activityHead": "THE ACTIVITY",
      "steps": [
        { "title": "DUMP IT OUT", "text": "Pour the puzzle onto the table. No picture to work from. Start." },
        { "title": "THIRTY SECONDS", "text": "Keep going. Notice exactly how far brute force gets you." },
        { "title": "FIND THE ORDER", "text": "Now sort — edges first, then by colour. Same pieces, different approach." },
        { "title": "NAME YOURS", "text": "Write down the one school task that feels like this pile right now." }
      ],
      "bandHeading": "TALK ABOUT IT",
      "bandQuestions": [
        "What did dumping it out cost?",
        "What did sorting first buy?",
        "What is your pile right now?",
        "What would \"edges first\" mean?",
        "What are you leaving until last?"
      ],
      "scrollQuote": {
        "text": "Let all things be done decently and in order.",
        "attribution": "1 Corinthians 14:40"
      },
      "artPrompt": "A natural photograph of teenagers around a classroom table covered in scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces, one student beginning to line up the edge pieces, morning light through the windows."
    },

    {
      "card": 1,
      "layout": "lifeprep-apply",
      "sectionName": "MAKE IT REAL",
      "tagline": "Light first. Then everything.",
      "title": "SUCCEED IN SCHOOL — ORDER LIKE THE CREATION",
      "subtitle": "A World Built One Step At A Time.",
      "scripturesHead": "WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOW",
      "scriptureList": [
        "Abraham 4:3  —  light came first",
        "Abraham 4:7  —  \"even as they ordered\"",
        "Abraham 4:11  —  prepare before you plant",
        "Abraham 4:21  —  their plan was good",
        "Abraham 5:2  —  and then they rested"
      ],
      "planHead": "MAKE YOUR PLAN",
      "planQuestion": "What is your one pile this week?",
      "plan": [
        "What is the light — what has to come first?",
        "What are its edges — the smaller steps?",
        "When this week will you stop and rest?"
      ],
      "ideasHead": "IDEAS: HOW COULD I BRING ORDER?",
      "ideas": [
        "Write every task down.",
        "Do the first step tonight.",
        "Break big into small.",
        "Pray before you plan.",
        "Notice what you finished.",
        "Keep the Sabbath a rest."
      ],
      "challengeHead": "CHALLENGE THIS WEEK",
      "challengeText": "Take the pile you named, break it into three steps on paper, and finish the first step before you sleep tonight.",
      "rememberHead": "REMEMBER",
      "rememberText": "\"It is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength\" (Mosiah 4:27). Order is not doing more — it is doing it in the right sequence, and stopping to see that it was good.",
      "scrollQuote": {
        "text": "And it was so, even as they ordered.",
        "attribution": "Abraham 4:7"
      },
      "artPrompt": "A warm painterly golden-hour scene of the earth's horizon seen from above with the first light of a sunrise breaking across it, clouds and ocean below."
    }
  ],

  "journalPrompt": "Name the one pile of schoolwork that feels like the dumped-out puzzle. Break it into three steps and write them in order — the light first, then the edges. Write which step you will finish tonight, and write one way you will invite Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to magnify what you are already doing."
}