Recording Daily Activities

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Diary Reflection
Recording one’s daily activities is not a pleasant way to spend your day, but it provides one with insights on how future activities and behaviors can be changed. In my case, the three days that I took the initiative to record how I spend my day provided me with insights how to change my work, personal and leisure activities as well as social relationships with other people, emotional and stress levels. In this paper, I provide my personal reflection and analyze how I spend my time, my emotional and stress variables as well as their impact on my life in general.
In general I recorded how I spend my time on the following three categories; 3.98 hours of work, 41.25 hours of personal time and 19.99 hours of leisure activities. It surprised me that I have only 19.9 hours for leisure when I thought I have more than that. My personal time took most amount of time because includes the time I do personal chores, sleep and other daily activities. From my perspective, I do not see any much difference between the week days and weekend day that I chose to document my time.
According to Pitas (9) time famine implies to insufficient of lack of free time on the other hand, time deepening how to get more done within the same amount of time without having an experience of the activities done. Throughout the three days I did not experience time deepening during my leisure activities because I tend to immerse myself into them so as to experience them. However, I do experience time famine especially when I am doing my studies as well as in leisure activities because I always want more and the time seems to be short. Through this exercise I have realized that I roughly spend 30% of my day in leisure something that I never thought of since I spend much of my time doing personal activities. Moreover, this exercise has helped understand the concepts of time famine and deepening and their effect on my daily activities. From this time diary, I now believe that there will be free time when every activity is completed within the required time and it is easier to plan my day in order to know how much time I should take on certain activities so as to have free time.
The manner in which we spend our days determines our emotion and stress levels. Emotion has been defined as the conscious mental reaction...