Time Management Assignment
1. I looked at my daily routines Sunday through Saturday and classified my activities into
the 4 quadrants of time management. I realized I spend most of my time through out the
week in quadrant 1 and the least amount of my time in quadrant 4. When looking over my
activities I stopped to look at how much I do certain things such as kick back and relax, get
a little extra sleep, and realized that these are just about as important as attending class.
Here is how I broke down the hours of last week into the quadrants:
Urgent Not-Urgent
Important 48% 34%
Unimportant 10% 8%
2. The three most important areas for me were attending class, studying, and relaxing.
These are very important to me because the reason I am here is to get an education, and
also is my number one priority. Because these are extremely important to me I feel that I
should be able to give my self every advantage possible to do well by getting good rest,
and relaxing. I choose relaxing as important, because if I were to just study and go to class
all around the clock I would eventually break, and do poor work, have trouble
concentrating, and end up with poor grades.
3. Three areas where I am involved in activities that are urgent but not important would be
going to practice, sleeping in late, and watching certain TV shows. Practice is something
that I have to do at a certain time, I cant just skip and do it whenever I please, it is
