Based on Sarah's "before" and "after" time management strategy to recapture and repurpose time, please share an example in which you have managed to move things around to gain more time. Share how you combined tasks or reduced travel time. Your answer should be a short 2-paragraph essay. Please submit with a standard cover sheet in APA format (practicing for your next courses) into the assignment folder. Thank you!

Scenario:

On Tuesday nights, Sarah has a routine: After work, she does her shopping for the week (2 hours driving and shopping) and then prepares and eats dinner (1 hour). After dinner, she spends time on homework (1 hour) and catching up with friends, reading the news, and other Internet activities (1 hour), and then she watches television or reads before going to bed (1 hour). While it may seem that there is very little room for improvement in her schedule without cutting out something she enjoys, limiting the amount of time she spends on each activity and rethinking how she goes about each task can make a significant difference.

In this story, Sarahs Tuesday-night routine includes coming home from work, taking stock of which items in her home she might need to purchase, and then driving to the store. While at the store, she spends time picking out and selecting groceries as she plans for meals she will eat during the rest of the week. Then, after making her purchases, she drives home.

If she instead took the time to make a list and plan for what she needed at the store before she arrived, she would not spend as much time looking for inspiration in each aisle. Also, if she had a prepared list, she could quickly pick up each item. She could also stop at the store on the way home from work, thus cutting out the extra travel time.

If purchasing what she needed took 30 minutes less because she was more organized and she cut out an additional 20 minutes of travel time by saving the extra trip to the store from her house, she could recapture a significant amount of her Tuesday evening. If she then limited the time she spent catching up with friends to 30 minutes or talked with friends while making dinner, she would find that she had added almost an extra hour and a half to the time available that evening, without cutting out anything she needed to do or enjoys. If she decided to spend her time on study or homework, this would more than double the time she previously had available in her schedule for homework.