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Before you can determine your coefficient for chaos, you need to know how you’re spending your time and determine if it is in alignment with your priorities. So let’s start with a simple, but powerful, exercise.

In Exercise 1, you will create a pie chart that reflects how you spend your time. Each piece of the pie will represent the average amount of time that you are spending on that activity.

Start by deciding on your main categories. Many people choose things such as work, home maintenance activities, caring for children — but only you can determine the categories that are meaningful to you. Do this quickly without overthinking the categories. Follow your gut feeling about where you spend your time in general. Obviously there will be specific days or periods of time that are not “typical,” but this is intended to be a high-level view. Next, draw relative sections of the pie to roughly indicate the percentage of your time devoted to each category. Don’t get caught up being too exact.

In this example, Joan has chosen her categories rather broadly:

In this example, Susan made her categories a little more detailed:

Now go ahead and decide on your categories and complete your pie chart.

Once you have completed your “as is” pie chart, move on to the circle below and draw how you would spend your time in utopia. Suspend your rational mind for a moment and think how you would ideally like to divide your time.