Our perception of time can be very distorted, preventing us from making changes that can drastically improve our life. It can be invaluable to take a step back and take a look at your time usage. To accomplish this, I recorded my activities and tabulated the percentages of time spent for an entire week. Through analyzing the time diary, by creating categories, I am able to gain valuable insight into my time habits. To see past bias and recognize patterns allows enhanced utilization of time. My mental image of how the time diary would look somewhat accurate but there were a few lessons to be learned. I always feel as if I swamped by school and work, and never have enough free time. It turns out, however, that I have a lot more free time than …show more content…
I have chosen these categories because I believe they best represent my schedule during the week recorded. Maintenance represents things needed to protect your well-being, and continue day-to-day activities. For example, grocery shopping and hygiene related activities are considered maintenance. Although perhaps tiring, they 're needed to continue your standard of living. Overall, maintenance consists totals %%% of my time during this week. Although sleep fits with maintenance, deserves its own category. Sleep plays a vital role in our lives and it 's important to know just how much you 're getting. I attempt to get to bed before midnight and to wake soon after eight A.M which gives the minimum amount of sleep I would like to get everyday. All together, %%% of the seven days consisted of sleeping. Leisure is important in maintaining a balanced life style, reducing stress, and being healthy. We are only counting discretionary time and excluding leisure related to recuperative or social obligations. For me, the majority of leisure activities came from playing video games and hanging out with friends amounting to %%% of the weeks activities. Video games involved playing with friends from my home computer whenever I had a descent window of opportunity to play. Meeting up with friends at the Chinese restaurant or talking to them over Skype was another big leisure item while I was not playing games. Everything school and work related such as homework which was done nearly everyday, make up the school & work category. These two subjects are a huge aspect of our lives and contain a world within themselves. Together, they result in %%% of the week. Lastly, travel is the time consuming process that connects us with the different aspects of our lives. Travel includes any activity with the primary purpose of getting from one
I believe for me there are four main areas that consume my time; school, work, social life and sport. The level of time and effort given to one or the other changed depending on what was happening in my life at the
An essential part of time management is the initiation of a task. Starting a task is the path towards completing it. The key to initiating a task is the mindset of a person. There are two kinds of mindsets, one being the deliberate mindset and the other an implemental mindset. The implemental mindset is the “action phase” in which consists of a positive view towards the task.It is important in time management to begin a task early although the mind is typically focused only on present events. It has been studied that the mind categorizes time in a particular way, the example given is how activities are planned for the day, money is budgeted for the month, and goals are set for the year. The mind is set on present
Over this summer, I realised that every seconds count and there are moments where it is going to be really hard. Concerning my time management, I plan to classify each of my daily activities into 4 different categories which are the following: “Important and Urgent”, “Important but Not Urgent”, “Not Important and Not Urgent”, “Not Important but Urgent”. I think that if I plan wisely I will be able to actually manage my time in a very nice way.
Even though technology’s purpose in the world was to create an easier means of life, we happen to lose track of time because of the ample uses that technology has. As we venture into a digital world so vast and immensely informative we tend to search for things deemed important such as the things our favorite celebrities are doing, whom your friends crush is or googling why people have test anxiety. The internet for example is capable of bringing forth billions of topics in a matter of seconds. With the implementation of ads and the ability to open multiple tabs and windows, we generally become abstracted and tend to click many links that serves our interest in which we then forget our main purpose for using the internet. Technology can be a time consumer put into place when you are doing something uninteresting therefore causing people to do multiply things, for example doing homework online while being on Facebook can cause a person to take longer with homework instead of finishing in a timely manner. “Commit to a single task on your computer or mobile device, the same way you might commit to an important face-to-face conversation. You can find freedom from distraction on-screen as well as off” (Samuel e-page 32). Samuel states that if people were to treat tasks as if it was an important conversation that
Time is a crucial factor in my daily life. Benjamin Franklin said, “Lost time is never found again” (Answers.com, 2015). Each day that I am alive it is another opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding in the Masters of Public Health programme. As a postgraduate student, I have come to the realisation that demanding efforts are essential for a positive end result of good time management.
I write this clear and concise reflection to identify and evaluate an academic problem that I feel is negatively impacting my studies which is time management; otherwise, I find lot of difficulty to manage my time.
This holiday season, I recommend starting a journal of everything you eat and drink, along with the amount of exercise, fresh air, meditation and sleep you are getting. Also, keep track of how you are feeling and what emotions surface that lead to unhealthy behaviors.
There are many different parts to time management, such as procrastination, strategy, organization, expectations and being prepared. All of them contribute equally in many ways. All of the things that we have spoken about in this paper are highly recommended. The best thing to do when it comes to time management is to set a strategy, become organized and do your best to avoid procrastination. When you manage your time make sure you include the following; studying, sleeping, eating, relaxing and other necessary things. No matter what our circumstances are, we can all use some time management skills in our lives.
The problem of time management can be said to be universal not only affecting students but also other people in careers. This problem is seen to transition from a person’s life from different cadres of his or her engagement specifically from home, school and at work. It is also a problem that is internal and not external.
To simply everything- life is becoming complicated, and more demanding. We are over loaded with news, different information and a lot buying things. We are taking more commitments, tasks and obligations. However, less is truly more. I will schedule my time on only important
The limitation of this essay is that no survey has been conducted, and so further research could be done regarding significant issues in time management.
I learned a lot while recording my time log every day for ten days. I would have never guessed all of the things I do in a measly twenty four hours. I also learned how well I can procrastinate. I also learned how procrastination isn’t always the best choice. I originally assumed I did nothing with my day but sat around and went to my classes. The outcome turned out to be slightly different than I anticipated.
I used my planning by ensuring that I check my own deadlines. This is to make me more organised and aware where I am currently at. I used my plan by looking at my task list in numerous occasions. Moreover, in my spare time I used to do extra work and in my lessons I used to show the work if the teacher was satisfied and if I wasn 't aware how to do the task. I would use this time to understand and complete my diary.
With these simple tips, I am sure that you too would consider the idea of maintaining a time journal.