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Time Management
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❏ Do you take work home more than once a week?
❏ Do you stay at work beyond your official working hours
more than twice a week?
❏ While in school, did you frequently cram before a test?
❏ Are you presently on a committee that bores you?
❏ Do you often put off returning a call to someone you
don’t like, even if it’s important?
❏ Do you wait until you have a dental problem to see your
dentist?
❏ Do you frequently skip breakfast?
❏ Do slips of paper with phone numbers, addresses, etc.,
tend to pile up in your purse or wallet, on your desk, in
your pockets, etc.?
These questions assess whether certain deep-seated habits
or environmental factors undermine the efficiency of your
lifestyle. You might want to reread each question to get a few
clues as to where you might need some work. If you have five or
more yes answers, you need to consider some serious behav-
ioral or environmental reprogramming. And unless you have a
score of 0, there are facets of your life that need improvement.

How You Relate to Time

We each have a personal perspective of time, but most of us
aren’t even aware that we have subconscious feelings about
time at all.
Read the following list, then choose five words that you feel
best apply to time. Allow yourself a little creativity in your choices.
spent white friendly
opportunity lively unclaimed
exhausting hollow ready
busy handy effective
mountainous relentless tense
valley-like available empty
energetic restless bumpy
jammed blank exciting