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Weekly Summary
Time Tallied Over
Activity Total Time in Hours Ideal Time in Hours
One-Week Period
Example: Class 16.5
Class
Work
Studying
Sleeping
Eating
Family time/child care
Commuting/traveling
Chores and personal business
Friends and important relationships
Telephone time
Leisure/entertainment
Spiritual life
Other
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CHAPTER
WRITE IT Communicate
Emotional intelligence journal: How you feel about your time management. Think
and then write about how your most time-demanding activities make you feel. Paying attention
to your feelings can be a key step toward making time management choices that are more in line
with your values. What makes you happiest, most fulfilled, and most satisfied? What makes you
the most anxious, frustrated, most drained? What do these feelings tell you about your day-to-day
choices? Describe how you could adjust your mindset or make different choices to feel better
about how you spend your time.
Real-life writing: Examine two areas of academic specialty. Use your course catalog to
identify two academic areas that look interesting to you. Write a short report comparing and con-
trasting the majors or concentrations in these areas. Consider GPA requirements, number of courses,
relevance to career areas, campus locations of departments, “feel” of the departments, other require-
ments, and discussions with students and instructors. Conclude your report with observations about
how this comparison and evaluation process has refined your thinking.
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