YOU HAVE MORE TIME THAN YOU THINK!
Below is an activity that will help you breaking down your weekly hour usage so you can see where you have time leakages. (Copy and paste this text into a Word document for a printable activity.)
There are 168 hours in a week. Below you are going to be tracking, for 1 day, how much time you spend in your daily routines. You’ll also be estimating how much time certain weekly or less common events take and then divide the total to get an average daily time. Doing this will show you where your time sucks are.
DAILY ACTIVITIES
TIME (mins) ACTIVITY
_____ Your morning routine: (Brushing your teeth, grooming hair/makeup, prepping and eating breakfast, prepping lunch, etc)
_____ Commuting/Getting to or ready for work
_____ Work related activities (phone, computer, meetings, errands, etc)*
_____ Preparing and eating lunch
_____ Preparing and eating dinner
_____ Using the bathroom
_____ Cleaning (sweeping, wiping, dishes, laundry, etc)
_____ Showering/bathing
_____ Television
_____ Facebook
_____ Other electronic time, including video games and cell phone
_____ Other entertainment
_____ Pre-sleeping routine
_____ Sleeping
_____ Exercise
_____ Other DAILY personal activities
_____ Add up the total minutes per day.
WEEKLY/OTHER
TIME ACTIVITY
(mins/week ave,)
_____ Social time with friends
_____ Social time with family
_____ Shopping (groceries, etc)
_____ Other errands (post office, etc)
_____ Other WEEKLY (or less frequent) personal activities
_____ Add up the total mins/week average and divide by 7 to get your daily time.
CHILDREN
Do you have children? If yes, fill in the times below.
TIME (mins) ACTIVITY
_____ Children’s morning routine: (Prepping children(s) clothing, food, school
materials, getting them to school or onto the bus, etc)
_____ Children homework
_____ Children feeding activities
_____ Children cleaning activities
_____ Children social time
_____ Children bedtime routine
_____ Other daily activities:
_____ Add up the total minutes per day.
CHILDREN WEEKLY/OTHER
TIME ACTIVITY
(mins/week ave,)
_____ Children activities (sports, clubs, doctors appointments, attending school events/meetings)
_____ Other WEEKLY (or less frequent) activities:
_____ Add up the total mins/week average and divide by 7 to get your daily time.
_____ Add up the total minutes from all totals above.
_____ Divide by 60 to get your # of hours.
There are 168 hours in a week. Is there time unaccounted for? Do you feel like you don’t have the free time your schedule shows you should have? If so, what did you miss?
Did you use more than 168 hours? Are you over committed?
What areas are you wasting your time?
Where can you cut down?
What can you do TODAY to make changes to stop these time wasters?
*You can do a similar assessment for your business activities by tracking your work hours for a minimum of 3 days.
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