This document provides tips and exercises for managing one's time effectively to avoid feeling overwhelmed or underutilized. It includes: 1. An activity to create a pie chart showing how one currently spends their time and identify any imbalances. 2. An exercise to envision an ideal time allocation and compare it to the current pie chart to find areas for improvement. 3. Suggestions for small, measurable steps to make positive changes, such as using "Hav-ta, Gonna, Wanna" lists to prioritize tasks.

1. Lets Get UnBusy
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2. Your Heart Magnet
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Discovering What You Are Drawn To
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3. Start with a list. List the larger categories that describe how you now spend your time. Use the
categories below, or write in your own. Then estimate the time you spend on each activity and
the percent of total available time that represents.
Make a time use pie chart. Keeping and average day (24 hours) or month (720 hours) in
mind, transfer this information to your time use pie chart. Make the size of the chart’s “slices” in
proportion to the time you estimate you spend on each activity.
Activity Estimated
Time Spent
Estimated
Percent of
Total
Hours
Sleep
Work
Commuting
Household Chores
Child Care/Interacting with Children
Time with partner (if applicable)
Self Care (things that renew or strengthen to body and/or spirit)
Errands
Spiritual Activities
Learning/Intellectual Activities
Social Activities
Creative Activities
Things that are fun
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4. How do I spend my time now?
• Are each of the slices of the pie the size you want them to be?
• Are there slices missing from the pie?
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5. How do I want to spend my time?
Now you can dream a little. Make a new pie, one that changes the slices to the size you want
them to be, that leaves out the slices you don’t want, and includes all the pieces you want it to
have. Don’t worry about if it seems possible - just go ahead and make this pie!
• Compare this pie to the first one. What do you see? What are you learning from it?
• Pick one change you’d like to make to your first pie to make it look more like the second one.
What can you do less of, in order to make space for what you want to do more of?
• Brainstorm the longest list you can of what you can do to make that change.
• From your list, choose one specific, realistic and measurable step you can take to make that
change. Who or what would help you? What would keep you on track?
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Ideas for staying in the “good busy” zone
1. Small steps
• Take three deep, slow breaths, noticing what you feel in your body
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2. Learn to Discern
• Is it important?
• Is it aligned with my values?
• Does this make my heart sing?
• Is it urgent? Is it an emergency? Can it wait?
• What matters most right now?
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3. Know When to Say No
• A bad feeling
• Plate already full
• Not what I do these days
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4. Hav-ta, Gonna, Wanna Lists
• Each day’s to-do list has up to 3 “have-ta’s” and 1 “wanna.” The “gonnas”
can wait!
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