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your business activities—but you’ll find the experiment even
more revealing if you include your personal time as well.
An analysis of your time allocation experiment results
should include:
• The two most time-consuming activities in your daily
work life.
• The two most time-consuming activities in your personal
life.
• The two activities most surprising to you in how much
time they consume.
• The two activities most surprising to you in how little time
they consume.
• An honest appraisal of which activities you feel should
consume less of your time.
• An honest appraisal of which activities you feel should
consume more of your time.

The conclusions you draw from this exercise, and from an
honest assessment of your time management style, should aid
you in identifying those areas of your professional and personal
life that could most benefit from change. You may find you need
a renewed or decreased emphasis on various factors that affect
your time management approach. Or, perhaps, applying more
thoughtful time management techniques would be useful to you.
You might even decide you need a more comprehensive practice
of organizational strategies throughout all phases of your life.
But to achieve any of these things, you must first sweep
away some time management myths that may be impeding
your progress. That will be the subject of our next chapter.

Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 1

❏ Technology has provided us with useful time benefits, but
also with challenges.
❏ With respect to time management, we are all individuals,
and we work and learn differently.