http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/07/06/average-american-work-day-chart/ Thoughts on God and life from a Christian perspective Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:35:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/07/06/average-american-work-day-chart/#comment-1129 Average American Leisure and Sports Time Charts at Ray Fowler .org Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:21:42 +0000 http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/07/06/average-american-work-day-chart/#comment-1129 [...] is a follow-up to last week’s post on the average American work day . Here are two charts on leisure and sports activities from the American Time Use Survey, released [...] […] is a follow-up to last week’s post on the average American work day . Here are two charts on leisure and sports activities from the American Time Use Survey, released […]

]]> http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/07/06/average-american-work-day-chart/#comment-1109 Laney Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:43:05 +0000 http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/07/06/average-american-work-day-chart/#comment-1109 Last year my daughter was given a math assignment to record her activites for an entire week, then graph how much time she spent on each activity - sleeping, eating, studying, etc. I chose to do the assignment as well, and found it very enlightening to see where my time was spent. I was surprised to see how much time I spent on mundane personal and household activities and pleased to see how much time I spent just pondering life & appreciating nature. It was a wonderful exercise that I would challenge all of us to do at least once a year. Last year my daughter was given a math assignment to record her activites for an entire week, then graph how much time she spent on each activity - sleeping, eating, studying, etc. I chose to do the assignment as well, and found it very enlightening to see where my time was spent. I was surprised to see how much time I spent on mundane personal and household activities and pleased to see how much time I spent just pondering life & appreciating nature. It was a wonderful exercise that I would challenge all of us to do at least once a year.

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