How To Get Rid Of Today's Fast Paced Lifestyle

Life today is very fast-paced. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and will push you out of the way to get there, like it's some kind of race. In our personal lives, we have our cell phones, and maybe a home phone, scheduled play dates for our kids, microwaves, satellite TV, home security systems that don't involve dogs, solar landscape lighting, automatic underground sprinkler systems for our lawns, and compact fluorescent lights to replace the incandescent bulbs that waste energy. In the business world, you have meetings that you can attend by using a video phone, PowerPoint presentations to help you get your point across at the meetings you can't get out of, instant messaging to speak to clients and other businesses around the

We always hear people speaking about time management and importance of it. Time management is allocation of time according to importance of work. In another words, allocation of the right quantity of time to the right work is time management. In order to find out the effects that can have the time management on the other variables especially the stress level of peoples, some major studies from 1990 to 2010 have been reviewed.

This essay presents the argument that instead of keeping a busy life, we should live a carefree and relaxed life instead. The busyness that overtakes our lives often comes subconsciously, which we submit to, without even realizing it ourselves. This supports Kreider’s claims that busyness is a “trap”. He also points out that once it has begun to overtake our lives, we begin to accept it and are led to believe that there is no way to avoid it. Once we start to believe that busyness is an unavoidable part of life, then we fall into the “busy trap.” The author also encourages the audience to avoid a busy lifestyle giving several reasons why a relaxed lifestyle is more ideal. The author also challenges the audience to avoid busyness and to strive towards a less stressful lifestyle.

Is being busy a bad thing? Tim Kreider believes it is. He states that people are overscheduling themselves which is unnecessary and silly of them to do. Kreider begins his argument in his article “The ‘Busy Trap”, by asking how many times we respond with “I’m busy” when asked how we are doing. Living in today’s society it’s the normal thing to be busy to the point of exhaustion. In fact, Kreider states that people who are working full time jobs or crazy hours are not those who say that they are busy. Being tired is what makes people feel like they are busy. For example, a mother working at the local grocery store, gas station, and recreation center will tell others that she is doing well when asked about how she is doing. On the other

I am performing my occupation on routine basis, but before occupational analysis activity assignment I never pay attention for my life cycle and how much time I am spending behind my daily routine tasks. This assignment helps me a lot to organize myself and learn about the time management. Poor time management skills can lead to anxiety, depression, procrastination, frustration, anger, and diminished interpersonal, and occupational interaction (Marcil,2007). From occupational analysis question one pie chart (figure1) about the activity differentiation, I found that education and performing ADLs was two of my major occupations, I am spent most of the time in these two occupations. Also, I found that work and IADLs were my next two priorities for occupations and I spent very less time for play, leisure and socialization. I believe, as a student I have to spend about fifty percent of my time for study and less time for ADL and work. Also, I found that my daily routine pattern was unbalance because of lack of sleep and less time for play, leisure. The insight I found form question two activity analysis pie chart(figure.2) that I performed most of routine occupations with energetically even though there was not balanced in real life. I believe that not all days are same for everybody, my mood changes based on environment, workload, and priorities. Some time when I come from school or work I feel lethargic and I don’t like to do anything, but my insight always encourages me to perform if I have any assignment due or exams on next day. The insight that I gains about the relationship between studies, ADLs, work, IADLs, play, leisure, and sleep/rest are not balance. I know that ADLs, IADLs, and work are important tasks of daily living; I need some personal time for play, leisure and sleep/rest time that keeps me away from burnout and becoming ill. The secret of

Recently, I’ve been working at a restaurant and I am quite busy with everything that’s going on in my life. Along with working at the restaurant, I need to make sure that I get my schoolwork done on time and also take care of the housework. However, I enjoy being busy because it keeps me away from being bored, increase my creativity as well as experience.

This newspaper article by Sue Shollenberger, describes what it's like to have a frantic life full of responsibilities. It talks about a man who has multiple things to do with the little time he has. The man tries to find a way to organize all of his activities and responsibilities. But what people don't realize is that matter how you try to time manage your schedule,

While students feel they are great at multitasking, studies show that they actually perform academically at a lower level than those who do not multitask. A study was conducted by a respected research lab in Stanford University. Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stanford University, introduces us to a study conducted on carefully-selected high chronic students who multitask (Digital Nation). The experiment was structured for students to identify numbers as odd or even, letters as vowels or consonants. Professor Nass wanted to test how quickly these students can switch tasks without losing focus. The results showed that people who multitask are slower than those who do not multitask. While slower does not mean horrible, it should raise a sign that if they had focused on their work only they would get better scores in their respective studies. Sherry Turkle, in an interview, displayed the differences between two common multitasking activities: taking a break from your studies to stretch and surfing the web. Turkle says: “When you get up and stretch and take a walk around the block, you can stay with your problem. You can clear your mind; you can move your body. You can stay

In today's busy lifestyle, many people do not manage their time wisely. We make way too many excuses instead of making results. We often say we don't have time to do certain things, when in reality, we have plenty of time, we just don't use it wisely. We tend to spend too much time watching television or on social media instead of completing tasks or assignments that need completing.

Individual space is important for humans since people can only develop themselves when they are alone for some special sutuations. Although work or live with a group of people can help humans a lot, humans still need their own space to think about themselves. Humans can figure many things, which nobody can help them, only when they are alone. Humans are smart, so their worlds are full of kind of pressure, which humans give to themselves. But it cannot be a reason that humans do not have time to relax.

1.Find alternative such as develop new health activities, hobbies, relationships, which will help you to engage.

The social atmosphere surrounding the idea of work and the lack of leisure time is attributing a large unkindness to the society in which holds the values. That society is the American Society. Hamrick would explain that Americans have psychologically been trained to accept a growing need to be busy, and where once the word stress was foreign, now it is a part of every American’s vocabulary.

Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world. More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese. And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too. But for many of us, more work leads to more stress and a lower quality of life. Without time to unwind, take care of your home, spend time with loved ones, enjoy our hobbies, connect with friends, and generally live a more balanced life. Stress is the #1 cause of health problems – mentally and physically. And there are few things that stress us out on a consistent basis like work does, especially when it takes away from all of the other things that life has to offer.

4). It is very difficult to do “two complex tasks” at once (Paul 5). For instance, doing email and listening to the phone. These tasks diverts the mind due to which people do not focus properly on them and results in lower efficiency. Multitaskers omit much information and it takes time to refocus on both of them. Therefore, “Efficiency can drop by as much as 40%” (Atchly par. 2). Peter Bregman mentions that in the reality, “the more you multitask, the worse you are at it” (519). It means that multitasking decrease the ability to think and focus after switch task. Multitasking not only affects the quality of the work…, … it can affect the brain’s gray matter , which is associated with memory, decision making and more” (Vito par. 8). Hence, multiple tasks results in the poor productivity.

There are many distractions that we face from day to day that can lead to living our lives in the state of laziness. We have many different vices that distract our attention from things that are important and really matter. We all tend to deter from our important day to day activities and check our Facebook page, play games via our cell phone, or even look at our favorite television show. All these things can cause up to 4-5 hours of daily distractions, sometimes even more. For indolence and idleness, which are such a great vice in society, are so no longer in anyone who has renounced the advantages of society not to endure its works (Pierre and Gage 42). These small moments of idleness can cause you not to complete any tasks that you have at hand. As I digress, I did a study on accidents that