One of the scarce resources that constrain our behavior is time. each of us has only 24 hours in a day, and we must allocate our time in a given day among competing alternatives. how do you go about allocating your time in a given day among competing alternatives? how do you go about weighing the alternatives?

Scarce resources are those resources that have limited availability in combination with greater productive uses. Time is a scarce resource as well as all have limited time in our life. In addition, out of the limited time we have, a significance portion of that time is spent on unproductive tasks such as sleeping, bathing among other tasks. As more and more time is spent on a given activity the opportunity cost of that activity in terms of other activities rises. Opportunity cost in this case is the benefit that a person could have received by involving himself in a given task, but gave up to take up another task.