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A Personal Time Survey
To begin managing your time you first need a clearer idea of how you now use
your time. The Personal Time Survey will help you to estimate how much time you
currently spend in typical activities. To get a more accurate estimate, you
might keep track of how you spend your time for a week. This will help you get a
better idea of how much time you need to prepare for each subject. It will also
help you identify your time wasters. But for now complete the Personal Time
Survey to get an estimate. The following survey shows the amount of time you
spend on various activities. When taking the survey, estimate the amount of time
spent on each item. Once you have this amount, multiply it by seven. This will
give you the total time spent on the activity in one week. After each item's
weekly time has been calculated, add all these times for the grand total.
Subtract this from 168, the total possible hours per week.
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