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The best example for me is from a school club fundraiser I helped run. We had a 30‑minute window before parents arrived: we needed to set up 8 tables, organize about 100 raffle tickets, make signs, and test the music. It felt a bit like controlled chaos at first. I took 2 minutes to quickly list everything on my phone and marked what was time‑sensitive. I prioritized anything guests would notice immediately: cleaning and setting up the tables came first, then signs, then tickets, and music last because that was the fastest task. I split our group of 6 into pairs and gave each pair one area so no one was bumping into each other. We finished setup 5 minutes early, and our teacher said it was the smoothest fundraiser start we’d had. Sales ended up about 20% higher than the previous event, partly because we were prepared when people walked in.
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