Overview

Chapter 11
Time and Life Management

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1. Women are more likely than men to perceive lower levels of stress and to rate their emotional health as above average.

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2. Research has shown that time management has a positive impact on the mental health of employees.

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3. Low, as well as excessive, levels of time pressure seem to correlate negatively with mental health.

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4. Polychromic time societies view time as linear with the preference being to do one thing at a time.

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5. Studies have shown that in college students time management is related to academic achievement.

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6. The ABC123 time management system is the same as a To-Do list.

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7. When you use the ABC123 time management system, you are determining the sequence of the events of your day.

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8. When you use the ABC123 time management system, your main goal is to finish everything on your list.

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9. Polls on how people spend time show that people tend to list work or career as their highest priority, but spend most of their time in matters of the family.

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10. Antiplanning describes the attitude of making goals and being firm about accomplishing the goals, while being flexible on how the goals are accomplished.

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11. Serendipity is a way of living where we move in the direction of goals while keeping tuned in to “happy accidents” that can change our path toward a different and better direction.

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