Brigham Young once said, “Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation…all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”
He further explained that having 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work and 8 hours of recreation each day makes your life have meaning. As I've been reading the Old Testament, I think a lot about how the people filled their days. For them, there was no texting, calling, emailing or blogging. This past week, I decided to look at my time and how I utilized it to see if I fit what President Brigham Young urged us to do. Here are the results:
Sleep: 37% I slept for about 62 hours of my week. How can I do that and still feel exhausted today? That is nearly three days out of seven!
Church: 8%
Getting Ready: 4%
Eating: 7%
Class: 9% It seems like so much more than that.
Study: 16%
Socializing: 8% I even had a bunch of people over last night and it still is quite sad.
TV watching: 3%
Work: 5%
Service: 3%
I then placed those things in three categories: Sleep, Work/School and Recreation and added up percentages. According to President Young, they should all be even around 33%. Here are my results
Sleep 37%
Work/School 33%
Recreation 30%
I am closer than I thought I would be. I just need to increase my recreation time, which should be easy to do as I am recreation major!
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