Budgeting Your Time

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TIME MANAGEMENT
FOR 110

One of the most important self-management skills involves controlling and budgeting your time. Gaining control of your time and your life involves identifying time wasters and determining your peak energy level. Managing time also involves identifying goals, setting priorities, and creating an action plan. Determining what tasks should be done first and overcoming procrastination are major factors in creating success. All these steps and issues involve critical thinking skills. Use critical thinking to answer these questions. You will need to use resource materials such as the Internet and the library to answer some of the questions. Justify and support your answers. Please write in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed. Some of the questions (there are 18) have multiple parts. Be sure to answer all parts. Note: Make sure you have read the online lecture in the course site before attempting this assignment.

1. What are the major activities and tasks that take up most of your time?
• Work
• School

2. What activities or things cause you to waste time?
• Television
• Time out for myself
• Online Surfing

3. What activities can you eliminate or reduce in order to create more time, especially for online college work?

I could reduce or eliminate all together the time I allow myself to watch television, in which I already took the TV out of my room where I do all work and school work. This has reduced the time it takes to complete a task already.

4. Define Circadian Rhythm. When is your high-energy time? What activities are you completing during this high-energy time?

Circadian Rhythm is a metabolic or behavior pattern that repeats in cycles of about every 24 hours. It is a rhythm that spans about a twenty-four-hour day, such as that of the sleep-waking cycle. Circadian rhythms in humans originate from a clock circuit in the hypothalamus that is set by i...

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...; 8m
Time to spare: 52m

Day 6: Saturday

Watch TV. 5h
Online Class. 8h
Study other class. 2h
Misc. (fun) 4h
Go to sleep. 5h

Total Hours: 24h
Total Minutes: 0m
Time to spare: 0m

Day 7: Sunday

Watch TV. 5h
Online Class. 8h
Study other class. 2h
Misc. (fun) 4h
Go to sleep. 5h

Total Hours: 24h
Total Minutes: 0m
Time to spare: 0m

Spare Time at the end of the week= 4.3 hours to spare for me

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