Reflection About Time Diary

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

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