This document summarizes activities from a workshop on soft skills, e-learning and smart teaching held from December 19-22, 2012 at Lovely Professional University. It includes exercises on creating a life balance wheel to analyze time spent on necessities versus wants, and a perceived stress scale to evaluate stress levels over the past month. Participants were asked to estimate daily hours spent on various life activities like sleeping, commuting and work to discover time left for other activities, and to rate how often in the past month they experienced stress symptoms to calculate an overall perceived stress score.

1. LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY
“Empowering Teachers” – Workshop on Soft Skills, eLearning and Smart TeachingDec. 19-22,
2012
LIFE BALANCE WHEEL
Rajesh Verma, Empowering Teachers

2. TIME ANALYSIS
Let’s find out how many hours do we spend on life’s necessities?
Using the boxes, estimate the amount of time it takes, each day, to complete the tasks listed
below. You will be calculating the amount of time you have left each day to do what you want.
How much time do you spend sleeping or trying to sleep? Hours:
Mins:
How much time do you spend preparing for work, including breakfast? Hours:
Mins:
How much time do you spend commuting to and from work each day? Hours:
Mins:
How much time do you spend at work or working? Do not include the Hours:
time you take for lunch. Mins:
How much time do you spend preparing and eating lunch and dinner? Hours:
Mins:
How much time do you spend each day completing errands, household, Hours:
management tasks, and tasks associated with caring for others? (Do
Mins:
not include personal tasks, i.e. going to gym, haircuts, etc.)
Total
Are you surprised at what you discover?
PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE
Have you feel stressed during the last month? Let’s find out.
The questions in this scale ask you about your feelings and thoughts during the last month. In each
case, you will be asked to indicate by circling how often you felt or thought a certain way.
Scale: 0 = Never 1 = Almost Never 2 = Sometimes 3 = Fairly Often 4 = Very Often
1 How often have you been upset because of something that happened 0 1 2 3 4
unexpectedly?
2 How often have you felt that you were unable to control the important 0 1 2 3 4
things in your life?
3 How often have you felt nervous and “stressed”? 0 1 2 3 4
4 How often have you felt confident about your ability to handle your 0 1 2 3 4
personal problems?
5 How often have you felt that things were going your way? 0 1 2 3 4
6 How often have you found that you could not cope with all the things that 0 1 2 3 4
you had to do?
7 How often have you been able to control irritations in your life? 0 1 2 3 4
8 How often have you felt that you were on top of things? 0 1 2 3 4
9 How often have you been angered because of things that were outside of 0 1 2 3 4
your control?
10 How often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high that you could 0 1 2 3 4
not overcome them?
TOTAL