Level I

Activities: High-payoff, preventative deliberate steps toward an established objective. Enhancing and enriching.  Generally scheduled and controllable.

Characteristics: Pre-planned, proactive activities that yield gradual or intangible return. Reduces crisis and provides a strong sense of freedom and accomplishment.

Emotional Effect: Confidence building, competitive stress, exhilarating, motivating, calming, and relieving.	
Level II

Activities: Crisis driven, emergencies, missed deadlines, fires, etc. Damaging and unproductive. Generally uncontrolled, random, and haphazard.

Characteristics: Unplanned, reactive activities that yield instant results for the time and attention.  Provides adrenaline rush and false sense of accomplishment. Confusing and exhausting.

Emotional Effect: Anxiety, negative stress, fatigue, depression, anger, and frustration.
	
Level III
Activities: Interruptions, others’ priorities, favors, unproductive meetings, etc. Things that could be delegated but are not.

Characteristics: Unplanned, reactive activities that yield no return.  Pressing issues for others that have little or no effect on you.

Emotional Effect: Anger, frustration, annoyance, co-dependence, and resentments.
	
Level IV

Activities: Escape-like behavior used to avoid or distract. Desensitized, solitary, and non-productive. Generally controlled and deliberate.

Characteristics: Planned, habit-forming activities that yield no return.  Provides relief from stress and deadens the emotions.

Emotional Effect: Depression, lethargy, boredom, loneliness, isolation, and addictions.