PSMJ 1: Increasing Personal Awareness -- Where does your time go? SP21

Time Awareness Assignment PSMJ 1

PART 1: Please adjust table as needed with your activities and times. Choose one or more days to track your time in 30-minute increments. Round up. For example, if it only takes you 15 minutes to eat, round it up to 30 minutes. Copy and paste the chart if doing more than one day. See canvas assignment page for more details.

PART 2: Where is your time going?

This is just a simple chart I built in word -- one slice of the energy pie is equal to one hour of the day (each hour is 4% of your day). This can help you see & figure the big-time consumers of your day, percentage wise. This can aid in the reflection questions below as well! How much of your day is taken up of which activities? For example, if you sleep from 11pm until 7am which is 8 hours and each hour is 4%, then 8 x 4% (0.04) = 32 %. So, 32% of your day is sleep.

You do NOT need to complete the chart but just use it to help you figure out the big-time consumers of your day. I do want to see your calculations of those big items such as sleep percentage of your day, work/school/phone use, etc? See canvas assignment page for more details.

a) How many hours do you spend doing ___?

b) What percentage of your time is taken up by____?

c) Other big-time items calculated _______?

PART 3: Reflection Questions:

Reflection answers to each question need to be at least 5 sentences or more. Really think about it as a researcher of yourself looking at the results you produced. Sometimes it can even help get an outside perspective by showing a trusted friend to see their perspectives. You are welcome to do this portion in video format following the same guidelines outlined for the assignment an answering length and details explained in the Discussion Board Protocol about videos. See canvas assignment page for more details.

1. What did you learn by tracking your time? Where is your time going? (Use the log and calculation chart in the previous steps to refer to and reference. 

2. How do you feel about "seeing your time" on the chart? Any insights into where your stress is coming from?

3. How balanced is your day with things that cause stress versus help you de-stress? 

4. What changes do you think you could make in order to use your time better or incorporate de-stressors? What could be let go of what you are doing and/or reduced in time to allow more time for de-stress techniques? 

5. Do you notice any connections between your day and/or previous day as well and your moods/energy? How so? 

6. Has this exercise given you any insight into where you need to or want to make changes in your life? 

PART 4:

Turn in the worksheet with all completed requirement here by the due date. Remember, as stated on the syllabus, the only formats accepted are work, pdf, jpeg. If you have a mac, I suggest checking your upload from another computer source to make sure. I often get a "pages" extension which is not one that I can open. Upload ONE worksheet document and not each thing individual. So, this means paste your results into the worksheet along with your other parts too. 

Have fun with this -- this is designed to raise your awareness! 

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