Extensions and Reflections

Extensions Lesson 15

1) Where have you spent your time?
I spend my time as much as I can in Quadrant 2, and I think I'm in a way like Kyra. I know what I want in life, sort of, and I work hard to achieve it. I always feel like I can't get things done, but really I always get them done anyway, it's just a warning, I guess, to be in panic mode.

1. What title goes here? Important, Urgent
I hate doing things under pressure and time, I just can't seem to be able to get things together at the last minute. I like to know how my day is going to look exactly, and I feel like changes just ruin it. If I have a test, I would have studied every weekend that I had the material, not at the last minute.

2. What title goes here? Important, not urgent
Maybe I'm not looking at myself really, and I actually don't spend any time here. But to me, I feel like I'm here most of the time. I love to know what is going on before anything happens, and I have to plan before anything happens too. If I had a day to myself and I had some work to do, I'd plan my time so that I can finish the work with time left over for fun things. But I will always do the work first, I just get antsy thinking about the unfinished homework after 7 oclock, so I have to finish everything before that.

3. What title goes here? Not Important, urgent
I think a lot of my friends have other friends that can do stuff with them to not even ask me to join. Maybe sometimes just to be nice, but they know what kind of a person I am. Like back in elementry, my friends don't call me out to play basketball until 4:30 because that's the time when they think I'm done my homework, or if they know that I don't have work at all, maybe a little earlier.

4. What title goes here? Not Important, not urgent
I wish to spend more time here, actually. My mom and dad always says that I work too hard and that I should have some time for fun. Though I always answer to them saying that I do have fun. Which I do, I get 12 to 6 in the afternoon on Sundays all to myself now, since both my parents work then. So I can finish what I need to do, which would probably be finished then, and I spend the rest of the day watching movies and reruns of the Oscars or Ellen.

Where are the majority of your activities? How much time do they take each week? What activities could you cut back on or cut out altogether to spend more time in quadrant 2?
Well, I would have to say that I'm a freak planner. I like to plan and I cannot live without an agenda or mental notes of what would be happening that day. I don't think I can cut out anything else to spend more time in Quadrant 2, not unless I get rid of fun altogether, which I don't think is very fair to me. I don't really have that much to do with my friends or family, I prioritize my work as the first thing, I hate waiting until the last minute, and I don't really spend that much time doing things that are not important or urgent. But I think we should occasionally jump into that quadrant just for some time to relax, right?

Reflection
Get everyone in the family to catego­rize into the Time Matrix the time they spent during the last couple of days. How can you each spend more time in Quadrant II?
My family never really had much plans outside of our family. Since my parents are immagrants and their friends are all back in China, they don't really have anything to do outside of work and family. Even back in China, they didn't really like going out with friends and stuff. They aren't very social people, I noticed. I think I get the planning from my mom and the prioritizing from my dad. He always knows what needs to be done and gets it done earlier than everyone else, and my mom likes to plan ahead, to know exactly where I meet and when I meet my friends, when I get home, how I get home, who will be there. And not only because she's uptight and wants me safe, she just likes to know what's going on at what time.

My usual blog:
I am was able to borrow City of Glass from Rebecca a couple of days ago, and I'm speeding through the book. Some one should pull me over and give me a ticket!! I've never read a book so fast, I'm half way through already! I think it's because I love it so much, and I want to know what happens. Some times when I read a book, no matter how good it is, I just look down at the page number and wish that I could read it faster, but I still haven't done that for this book, which is awesome.

Quote of the day:
"Elves are cool, man." Orlando Bloom

We had a presentation on autism today, and I think the main message is that we should except people that are different from us and be kind. Elves are different, and this quote says that they're like us, sort of. I just thought that it was like...it's like autism...I...uh...I just thought...yeah. And also it's his birthday, so yeah.