California State University, Sacramento
College of Health and Human Services
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

RLS 122 – Perspectives on Leisure

Assignment 1 – Time Budget Survey

Due Dates: 
  Timeline Due: Feb 5
  Paper Due:      Feb 12

How do you spend your time?  Many of us have a misconception of how we should utilize our time.  In this assignment, you are to look at how you use your time over the next seven day period.  You will document all your waking activities for each day.  At the end of the day, you should note how much leisure time you had, and what you ended up doing with that time.  Note that you should also document your emotional states during these periods of the day.  The report format for each day (table below) should be used for each of the seven days.  

Your paper should include the components below.  Be sure to include each one in your paper or you will not receive complete credit for the assignment.  Email David at rolloff@csus.edu if you have questions.  

Time: Measurements & Categorical Analysis
1.	Add the number of hours for this past week that you considered leisure time. 
2.	Now review how you used your leisure time by placing your activities in categories.  
3.	List those categories, and provide a description of what criteria you used to separate categories. 

Affective States of Leisure Time
4.	What was your mood during your leisure time? How about during your work time?  How about other categories & your moods? Review your responses and summarize your findings (be sure to correlate emotions with categories). 
5.	How much of your discretionary time did you feel qualified as leisure time?  Explain your response. 
6.	Now reflect on your findings during this exercise and comment on what you have learned about your use of discretionary time.   
7.	If you could change one thing about this discretionary time that would make a major positive change in your personal life, what would it be?  What would you need to do to make that change?  
8.	Complete the Inventory Wheel of Life to help you think about the balance of your life after reviewing how your time was spent in the seven day period.  Note any related things you learned from this exercise.   

Day 1 - Thursday, January 30
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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e.g. Wake up, shower, b-fast, read paper	6:00 to 7:15	1.25	Excited, interested	
Bike to school	7:15 to 7:35	0.3 	Alert, tense, exhilarated	
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Day 2 - Friday, January 31
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Day 3 - Saturday, February 1
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Day 4 - Sunday, February 3
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Day 5 - Monday, February 3
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Day 6 - Tuesday, February 4
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Day 7 - Wednesday, February 5
How much time did you have that you considered leisure/recreation time?  ____________
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Wheel of Life

 Your Name: __________________________________
Directions:  The eight sections of the Wheel of Life represent balance.  Seeing the center of the wheel as 0 and the outer edge as 10, rank your level of satisfaction with each life area by drawing a new line to create a new outer edge (see example).  The new perimeter of the circle represents the Wheel of Life.  How bumpy would life be if this were a real wheel?  Be sure you write about this in Writing Assignment 1 for full credit.    

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Example

Career - School

Money - Security

Health

Friends & Family

Romance/Sig. other

Personal Growth

Physical Environment

Fun and Recreation

California State University, Sacramento
College of Health and Human Services
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

RLS 122 – Perspectives on Leisure

WRITING ASSIGNMENT ONE:  TIME BUDGET INVENTORY

Name: _____________________________   Date: __________________

Project Element	Possible Points	Points Earned	
Completed and documented time detail for 7 days of activities	10		
Categorical summary of activities	5		
Emotional states described	5		
Discussion of leisure/recreation time	10		
Wheel of life component	5		
Mechanics, including: 
•	Format
•	Grammar
•	Spelling
•	Sentence Structure
•	Paper Organization
•	Writing Style	10		
Overall project development	5		
Deductions for not meeting required length 			
Total	50		

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