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Unit 3: Be realistic

Being aware
Being realistic

What broad activities take up your time?


It will be invaluable to develop an overview of all of your time commitments. You may like to make a list of all of your main activities. This should include your:

  • course commitments
  • spare time activities
  • work and family commitments
  • don't forget time for relaxing, shopping, eating, drinking, sleeping and so on


Consider all of your activities that take up time. Having established such an overview you will find it easier to move on to the next stages of prioritising your workload and drawing up work plans.

How can these activities be broken down into tasks?

Once you have listed all of your main activities, you might find it helpful to analysise each of them task by task. What will you need to do to fulfil all of your commitments?

Task Analysis:

Procedural Task Analysis

Hierarchical Task Analysis


If you produce a list of tasks involved in each of your activiities you can assess how long each of them will take and allocate time accordingly.

 

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