Time Monitoring Worksheet

Complete both parts of this worksheet as instructed. 

Part 1: Use the table below to monitor your time in hourly increments. 

Part 2: Reflection 

With reference to the time log worksheet shown above, the activities I can be able to do efficiently include personal study, attending lesson, group discussion and sleeping. This is because they are the activities which I manage to do without mixing with other activities within a given time location. It appears that the tasks which take up most of my time include sleeping and attending lesson. However, sleeping seems to be taking up much of my time than any other activity. 

There are areas in my daily routine where I can make adjustments in order for me to become more productive. First I need to reduce the number of hours of sleep by waking up earlier before 9 am. This can enable me take bath and have breakfast earlier. As a result other activities such as doing assignment, personal study and research can end up getting extra time to enhance efficiency on the side of academic. It will also avoid mixing activities such as playing and doing assignment or playing and doing research thereby creating more time to play for improved exercise, improved health and improved academic performance. This is because evidence from research has found that enough physical exercise improves scholastic performance, behavioral as well as neurocognitive performance (Pontifex et al., 2013). 

Sleeping still remains as the “black hole” that sucks most of my time. This is because at it appears; I do sleep for more over 10 hours in a day which is not normal. According to Hirshkowitz, Whiton, Albert, Alessi, Bruni, DonCarlos, and Neubauer, (2015), the national sleep foundation ranges from 7-9 hours which amounts to an average of 8 hours per day for the improvement of both health and wellbeing of an adult person (Hirshkowitz et al., 2015). I can make the adjustment to begin my personal study before 9am as long as I can sleep for 8 hours. This will also enhance good mental health and better performance when class start time remain delayed after getting enough recommended sleep (Onyper et al., 2012). 

References  

Hirshkowitz, M., Whiton, K., Albert, S. M., Alessi, C., Bruni, O., DonCarlos, L., ... & Neubauer, D. N. (2015). National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary. Sleep Health: Journal of the National Sleep Foundation , 1 (1), 40-43. 

Onyper, S. V., Thacher, P. V., Gilbert, J. W., & Gradess, S. G. (2012). Class start times, sleep, and academic performance in college: a path analysis. Chronobiology International , 29 (3), 318-335. 

Pontifex, M. B., Saliba, B. J., Raine, L. B., Picchietti, D. L., & Hillman, C. H. (2013). Exercise improves behavioral, neurocognitive, and scholastic performance in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The Journal of pediatrics , 162 (3), 543-551.